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

凯文·英格尔斯被授予NSF数学和物理科学上升博士后研究奖学金，以开展与扩大STEM中代表性不足的群体的参与有关的研究和活动计划。 英格尔斯博士的这项奖学金支持他在赞助科学家的指导下进行的题为“博士后奖学金：MPS上升：自旋磁流体力学：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厄巴纳-香槟分校（UIUC），赞助科学家是Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler博士。Ingles博士将从事一项研究项目，以发展强动态磁场或粒子自旋对重离子碰撞（HIC）中形成的夸克-胶子等离子体（QGP）演化的影响的数值研究。这些数值研究将有助于解决理论和最近的自旋极化测量之间的不一致，也将是有用的中子星星合并形成的致密物质的研究。 英格尔斯将参加外展和辅导活动，重点是本科生和研究生从历史上被排斥的群体，通过让他们参与计算物理研究，帮助他们发展自己的科学身份，并通过在UIUC现有的计划，如青年学者计划，指导物理学生（GPS），和包容性，多样性，公平，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。

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.