UCL Astrophysics Short-term Visitor Programme 2010-2012

该计划支持UCL物理和天文学系的短期访问者，在过去的十年中成功地将许多国际合作者和有价值的研究科学家与我们的研究小组密切联系。这些访问跨越了从观测天文学和天体物理学到宇宙学和天文仪器的广泛研究领域，促成了许多成功的合作和科学出版物。该计划以极具成本效益的方式，为目前的合作项目提供了密集的咨询和额外的动力。直接互动有助于确保富有成效的研究，增加通过更多研讨会进一步传播的机会，促进及时公布结果，并引发了新的举措，如观察运动。许多访问都有一个科学的回报，在UCL成员的邀请，参加会议和研讨会或提供他们的结果。该计划最终也是扩大研究生和STFC资助的研究助理的经验和联系的有效途径，有利于他们的职业前景。我们建议继续在UCL成功和富有成效的短期访问者计划，以涵盖STFC资助的理论和观测领域的天体物理学研究。该补助金将支持来自海外和英国的个人访问，通常每次持续5天，与我们在UCL（英国最大的天文学团体之一）的天文学和天体物理学小组直接接触，该小组最近也经历了重大扩展到宇宙学和系外行星领域。这些访问将为我们的研究小组提供大量和高度成本效益的利益，通过直接互动，研究出版物的产出，使用海外设施，以及为研究和资助创造新的机会。

The programme supporting short-term visitors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in UCL has allowed in the past decade to successfully bring many international collaborators and valued research scientists to work in close contact with our research groups. Spanning a broad range of research fields from observational astronomy and astrophysics to cosmology and astronomical instrumentation, these visits have resulted in many successful collaborations and scientific publications. The scheme has provided periods of intensive consultation and additional impetus for current collaborative projects in a very cost effective manner. The direct interactions help to ensure productive research, add the opportunity of further dissemination with additional seminars, promote the timely publication of the results and have sparked new initiatives such as observing campaigns. Many visits have had a scientific return in the invitation of UCL members to attend or deliver their results at conferences and workshops. This program ultimately is also an effective way to broaden the experiences and contacts of postgraduate students and STFC-funded research assistants benefiting their career prospects. We propose to continue our successful and productive short-term visitor programme at UCL to cover STFC-funded astrophysics research in theoretical and observational areas. The grant would support individual visits from overseas and the UK, typically lasting 5 days each to work in direct contact with our astronomy and astrophysics group here in UCL (one of the largest astronomy groups in the UK) which has also undergone a recent major expansion into the areas of cosmology and exoplanets. The visits will provide substantial and highly cost effect benefits to our research groups through direct interactions, output of research publications, access to overseas facilities, and generation of new opportunities for research and funding.