Postdoctoral Fellowship: MPS-Ascend: Spin Magnetohydrodynamics: Spin and Strong Magnetic Fields in Nuclear Collisions

Kevin Ingles被授予NSF数学和物理科学提升博士后研究奖学金，以开展一项与扩大STEM中代表性不足的群体的参与相关的研究和活动。英格尔斯博士的这笔奖学金支持了他在赞助科学家的指导下开展的题为《博士后研究：MPS-Ascend：自旋磁流体动力学：核碰撞中的自旋和强磁场》的研究项目。该奖学金的主办机构是伊利诺伊大学香槟分校(UIUC)，赞助科学家是Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler博士。Ingles将开展一项研究项目，对强动态磁场或粒子自旋在S重离子碰撞中形成的夸克-胶子等离子体演化中的影响进行数值研究。这些数值研究将有助于解决理论与最近的自旋极化测量之间的不一致，并将对中子星合并中形成的致密物质的研究有用。Ingles博士将参与针对历史上被排斥群体的本科生和研究生的外展和指导活动，让他们参与计算物理研究，帮助他们发展他们的科学身份，并通过UIUC现有的项目，如青年学者计划、物理学生指导(GPS)和包容、多样性、公平和访问(IDEA)研究所，指导学生。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。

Kevin Ingles is awarded an NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to conduct a program of research and activities related to broaden participation by groups underrepresented in STEM. This fellowship to Dr. Ingles supports his research project entitled “Postdoctoral Fellowship: MPS-Ascend: Spin Magnetohydrodynamics: Spin and Strong Magnetic Fields in Nuclear Collisions” under the mentorship of sponsoring scientists. The host institution for the fellowship is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the sponsoring scientist is Dr. Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler.Dr. Ingles will pursue a research project to develop numerical studies of the effects of the strong dynamical magnetic fields or particles spins in the evolution of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in heavy ion collisions (HIC)s. These numerical studies will help resolve inconsistencies between theory and recent spin polarization measurements and will also be useful in studies of the dense matter formed in neutron star mergers. Dr. Ingles will participate in outreach and mentoring activities focusing on undergraduates and graduate students from historically excluded groups through involving them computational physics research, helping them develop their science identities, and mentor students through existing programs at UIUC such as the Young Scholars Program, the Guidance for Physics Students (GPS), and the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Institute.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.