Postdoctoral Fellowship: MPS-Ascend: The Early Universe Laboratory: Primordial Phenomena as Probes of New Physics

博士后奖学金：MPS-Ascend：早期宇宙实验室：原始现象作为新物理学的探针

• 批准号: 2317018
• 负责人: Sarah Geller
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Geller, Sarah R
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2317018&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Fellowship; MPS; Ascend; Early

Sarah Geller is awarded an NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to conduct a program of research and activities related to broadening participation by members of groups underrepresented in STEM. This fellowship to Dr. Geller supports her research project entitled “Postdoctoral Fellowship: MPS-Ascend: The Early Universe Laboratory: Primordial Phenomena as Probes of New Physics” under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. The host institution for the fellowship is the University of California, Santa Cruz and the sponsoring scientist is Dr. Stefano Profumo. Dr. Geller will pursue a research project to study cosmological phenomena which are relics of the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang, including primordial black holes, first-order phase transitions, and gravitational waves. She plans to identify the generic features characterizing large classes of early universe models and to make predictions to compare with forthcoming measurements, helping to determine the plausibility of various early-universe scenarios for early-universe physics. Dr. Geller will bring a workshop series that she co-created at MIT to UC Santa Cruz. This workshop series, entitled "Filling the GAPS", is designed to teach application and professional skills to senior undergraduate students with an emphasis on providing mentorship to members of under-represented groups, including students who identify as members of traditionally underserved groups in STEM, women, and students with disabilities. She will teach a two-quarter course on professional skills and strategies at the graduate student level. In addition, she will design and build an (eventually open source) interactive accessibility app which will allow students and visitors to navigate accessible routes around campus, beginning with UC Santa Cruz.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.

Sarah Geller被授予NSF数学和物理科学博士后研究奖学金，以开展与扩大STEM中代表性不足的团体成员的参与有关的研究和活动计划。 盖勒博士的奖学金支持她的研究项目，题为“博士后奖学金：MPS上升：早期宇宙实验室：原始现象作为新物理学的探针”，由一位赞助科学家指导。该研究金的主办机构是加州大学，圣克鲁斯，赞助科学家是Stefano Profumo博士。盖勒博士将从事一个研究项目，研究宇宙学现象，这些现象是大爆炸后第一秒的遗迹，包括原始黑洞，一阶相变和引力波。 她计划确定表征大量早期宇宙模型的一般特征，并做出预测以与即将到来的测量进行比较，帮助确定早期宇宙物理学各种早期宇宙场景的可解释性。 盖勒博士将把她在麻省理工学院共同创建的一个系列研讨会带到加州大学圣克鲁斯。 这一系列题为“填补空白”的研讨会旨在向高年级本科生教授应用和专业技能，重点是为代表性不足的群体成员提供指导，包括那些认为自己是STEM传统上服务不足的群体成员的学生，妇女和残疾学生。她将在研究生阶段教授两个季度的专业技能和策略课程。 此外，她将设计和建立一个（最终开源）交互式无障碍应用程序，这将允许学生和游客浏览校园周围的无障碍路线，从加州大学圣克鲁斯开始。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。