REU Site: Multimessenger Astrophysics

该奖项支持罗切斯特理工学院的本科生研究经验（REU）网站。激光干涉引力波天文台（LIGO）对引力波的首次观测开启了引力波天文学时代的曙光。不久，我们将看到多信使天文学的诞生，因为引力波和电磁观测与理论模型相结合，为我们提供了以前科学无法获得的天体物理现象的新见解。推动这一项目向前发展的关键一步将是培养将成为下一代科学领导者的学生。这个REU网站，致力于多信使天体物理学的研究，将有助于培养下一代科学家在许多不同的技能，使他们能够在这个不断增长的领域以及许多其他追求事业。在REU计划的学生将学习和研究的主题跨越引力波探测和数据分析，观测天文学和天体物理学，科学数据的可视化，以及理论和数值建模。成对工作，每个由一个致力于研究导师监督，学生将花十周时间进行研究，并参加广泛的专业和科学的丰富活动，包括发展演讲技巧，熟悉学术文献，学习访问和使用工作站和超级计算机进行数值模拟。此外，该网站将特别关注聋人和重听学生，并将通过专门的“训练营”为所有REU学生提供学习美国手语的机会，在该计划中建立听力和聋人学生之间的社区。 该奖项通过让本科生参与多信使天体物理学的研究来推进NSF宇宙大创意窗口的目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The first observations of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have opened up the dawn of the gravitational wave astronomy age. Soon, we will see the birth of multi-messenger astronomy, as gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations are combined with theoretical models to give us new insights into astrophysical phenomena that were previously unavailable to science. A key step in moving this project forward will be the training of students that will form the next generation of scientific leaders. This REU site, dedicated to the study of multi-messenger astrophysics, will help groom the next generation of scientists in the many and diverse skills that will allow them to pursue careers in this growing field as well as many others. Students in the REU program will learn about and perform research on topics spanning gravitational wave detection and data analysis, observational astronomy and astrophysics, visualization of scientific data, and theoretical and numerical modeling. Working in pairs, each supervised by a committed research mentor, students will spend ten weeks performing research and participating in a wide array of professional and scientific enrichment activities that include developing presentation skills, acquiring familiarity with academic literature, and learning to access and use workstations and supercomputers to perform numerical simulations. In addition, the site will have a particular focus on deaf and hard of hearing students, and will offer all of the REU students the chance to learn American Sign Language through a specialized "bootcamp", building community between hearing and deaf students in the program. This award advances the goals of the NSF Windows on the Universe Big Idea through the involvement of undergraduates in research in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.