REU Site: Computational and Data Science in Astrophysics

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。该奖项将支持每年八名本科生在计算天体物理学领域的研究经验。这是一个新的本科生研究体验(REU)网站，将服务于全美的学生，但将为东南部地区历史悠久的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)大举招聘。学生将有机会获得编程和数据管理技能，同时参与与高能天体粒子物理数据的建模、模拟和分析相关的研究项目。学生还将在暑期的十周时间里接受广泛的职业发展指导。学生可以使用的项目包括研究核心塌缩超新星、暗物质湮灭、活动星系核的流出、中子星和X射线瞬变。重点将放在这些系统的计算建模以及与观测数据的联系上。专业发展经验将包括理解科学计算、科学交流、科学写作，以及为在STEM领域的职业生涯做准备。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 is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This award will support research experiences for eight undergraduate students per year in the area of computational astrophysics. This is a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site which will serve students throughout the US, but will recruit heavily for regional Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the southeast. The students will have the opportunity to acquire programming and data management skills while engaging in research projects related to modeling, simulating, and analysis of data from high-energy astroparticle physics. Students will also receive extensive professional development mentoring over the ten-week period of the summer.The projects available to the students include studies of core-collapse supernovae, dark matter annihilation, outflows from active galactic nuclei, neutron stars, and X-ray transients. The focus will be on the computational modeling of these systems and the connection with observational data. The professional development experience will include understanding scientific computation, science communication, scientific writing, and preparing for careers in STEM fields.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.