International REU site for Gravitational Physics

该奖项支持由盖恩斯维尔佛罗里达大学物理系主办的国际REU引力物理站点。激光干涉仪空间天线(LISA)和国家科学基金会支持的激光干涉仪引力波天文台(LIGO)项目利用小型和少数族裔大学越来越多的可研究教师来支持他们的研究工作。在这个REU站点，本科生将有机会与参与引力波探测方方面面的国际合作者建立联系，体验研究环境，并与之共事。将鼓励它们与其国际合作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人脉，帮助他们追求未来的研究。分配给他们的研究项目将同时促进他们的科学知识和个人成长。引力波的探测需要极其复杂的实验和分析技术，还涉及大型设备、大量人力和国际合作。研究项目将在许多地点进行，包括：阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦研究所，汉诺威；APC，巴黎；东京国家天文台；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；西澳大利亚大学，珀斯；首尔国立大学；L实验室，L；国家亚原子物理研究所，阿姆斯特丹；墨尔本大学；以及意大利的信息与通信技术实验室，所有这些都与佛罗里达大学联合进行。学生参与者将在天体物理、计算、数据分析、电子学和光学领域获得经验，同时突破当前的技术界限。这一经历将增强学生对科学研究的兴趣，为他们在国际合作网络中建立联系。主要目标之一是通过让学生体验研究生的生活是什么样子，并让他们接触到海外工作的可能性，来澄清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的研究，推进了NSF宇宙之窗大创意的目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.