International REU site for Gravitational Physics

该奖项支持由佛罗里达大学盖恩斯维尔分校物理系主办的国际REU引力物理网站。激光干涉仪空间天线（LISA）和美国国家科学基金会支持的激光干涉仪引力波天文台（LIGO）项目利用了越来越多的小型和少数民族学院具有研究能力的教师来支持他们的研究工作。在REU，本科生将有机会与参与引力波探测各个方面的国际合作者建立联系，体验研究环境，并与他们一起工作。将鼓励它们与国际伙伴一起开发正在进行的项目。接触研究将有助于培养学生的独立性，而在国际环境中的经历将为他们提供在全球网络中的联系，因为他们追求未来的研究。他们被分配的研究项目将在推进科学知识的同时促进他们的个人成长。探测引力波需要极其复杂的实验和分析技术；它还涉及大型设施、大量人力和国际合作。研究项目将在不同地点进行，包括汉诺威的阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦研究所；APC、巴黎;东京国立天文台；格拉斯哥大学；伯明翰大学；卡迪夫大学;阿德莱德大学；澳大利亚国立大学，堪培拉；珀斯西澳大利亚大学；首尔大学，首尔；奥赛大学，l' accimlsamateur linsamaire实验室；阿姆斯特丹国家亚原子物理研究所（NIKHEF）；墨尔本大学；以及意大利的INFN实验室——所有这些都是与佛罗里达大学联合进行的。学生参与者将获得天体物理学、计算、数据分析、电子和光学领域的经验，同时推动当前的技术边界。这种经历将增强学生对科学研究的兴趣，为他们在一个国际合作网络中建立联系。其中一个主要目标是通过让学生体验作为研究生研究员的生活，并让他们接触到海外工作的可能性，来阐明学生参与者未来的职业规划。该奖项通过本科生参与多信使天体物理学的研究，推进了NSF宇宙大理念窗口的目标。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 the International REU site for Gravitational Physics hosted by the Physics Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and NSF supported Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories (LIGO) projects take advantage of a growing number of research-able faculty at small and minority colleges in support of their research efforts. At this REU site, undergraduate students will have an opportunity to establish contact with, experience the research environment of, and work beside international collaborators involved in all aspects of gravitational wave detection. They will be encouraged to develop ongoing projects with their international partners. Exposure to research will help cultivate students' independence, while the experience in an international setting will furnish them with contacts within a global network, as they pursue their future research. The research projects they are assigned will simultaneously advance scientific knowledge and enable their personal growth.Detection of gravitational waves requires extremely sophisticated techniques in experiment and analysis; it also involves large facilities, significant manpower and international collaborations. Research projects will take place at a variety of locations, including the Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover; APC, Paris; the National Astronomical Observatory, Tokyo; University of Glasgow; University of Birmingham; Cardiff University; University of Adelaide; Australian National University, Canberra; the University of Western Australia, Perth; Seoul National University, Seoul; Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay; National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF), Amsterdam; University of Melbourne; and INFN laboratories, Italy - all in conjunction with the University of Florida. The student participants will gain experience in areas of astrophysics, computing, data analysis, electronics and optics, while pushing current technological boundaries. The experience will strengthen students’ interest in scientific research, establishing contacts for them in an international, collaborative network. One of the main objectives is to clarify the student participants’ future career plans by giving them a taste of what life is like as a graduate researcher, and by exposing them to the possibility of working overseas. 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.