Newton STFC Capacity Building with LIGO-India

随着去年LIGO首次直接观测到来自合并黑洞的引力波，随着引力波天文学为研究宇宙打开了一扇新的窗口，世界各地都对扩大未来探测器网络的覆盖范围产生了极大的兴趣。随着第三个aLIGO探测器在印度的选址，对具有关键技能的学生、博士后和早期职业研究人员进行引力波天文学最高水平的培训，以建设基础设施和技术，开发高性能计算/机器学习算法和高效的数据管道。反过来，LIGO印度项目将帮助印度科学界成为GW天文学新兴研究前沿的主要参与者。基于LIGO科学合作的模式，在工业、学术界和社会的许多领域都有巨大的包容性增长潜力。英国财团在外联和公众参与方面也有良好的记录，这将与我们的印度合作者分享。印度的合作伙伴将是那些共同协调和执行ligo印度项目的机构及其合作伙伴：浦那的大学间天文学和天体物理学中心（IUCAA）、印度科学教育与研究所（IISER）和海德拉巴的TIFR跨学科科学中心。在项目的初期，我们还将与原子能部门的组织建立联系：甘地纳加尔等离子体研究所（IPR）和印多尔拉贾拉曼纳先进技术中心（RRCAT），后者将领导基础设施（激光、真空系统、悬架和隔震）的发展。这项建议的主要目标是在印度建立与引力波探测有关的广泛的多学科领域的技术能力和能力。这个领域的范围非常广泛，需要的技术范围从精密的机械仪器，到高低功率激光光学，再到信号处理和大数据处理，因此本提案的工作所建立的能力将在其他领域有广泛的应用。我们已经确定了几家英国-印度公司在机器学习、传感器、自主系统和数据算法领域的联系，我们建议分享我们在将高科技研究转化为应用领域的方法方面的经验。这项提议背后的英国财团——西苏格兰大学、格拉斯哥大学、卡迪夫大学、伯明翰大学、南安普顿大学和谢菲尔德大学——在引力波场的探测器开发、数据分析、背景理论和天体物理学方面有着强大而广泛的记录，同时在公共宣传和学校教师CPD方面也与工业界合作。因此，它非常适合为印度这一官方发展援助国家的博士生、研究助理和早期职业研究人员提供培训，以建立能力，使这些国家成为国际社会的主要贡献者，并利用英国广泛的培训网络在英国提供专门的暑期学校/讲习班，培训来自官方发展援助国家的新成员必要的数据分析和实验硬件技术。此外，该财团将为研究人员安排往返印度和英国的机会，以便进行能力建设并对研究人员进行现场培训。这种模式已经被证明是非常有价值的，在英国的专业知识转移到美国的先进LIGO建设和日本的KAGRA建设期间。

With the first direct observation of gravitational waves from coalescing black holes by the LIGO Scientific collaboration last year there has been great interest around the world in extending the reach of the future detector network, as gravitational wave astronomy breaks open a new window on the Universe. With the siting of the 3rd aLIGO detector in India there is an essential need for critically skilled students, postdocs and early career researchers to be trained at the highest level in gravitational wave astronomy, for construction of the infrastructure & technology, development of high performance computing/machine learning algorithms and efficient data pipelines. In turn, the LIGO India project will help Indian scientific community to be a major player in the emerging research frontier of GW astronomy. Based on the model of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, there is a huge potential for inclusive growth across many areas of industry, academia and society. The UK consortia also have a strong track record of outreach & public engagement, which will be shared with our Indian collaborators. The Indian partners will be those institutions jointly coordinating and executing the LIGO-India project and their associates: the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, the Indian Institute for Science Education & Research (IISER) and the TIFR Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad. Over the coarse of the project we will also develop linkages with the Department of Atomic Energy organisations: Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar and the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore who will be leading the development of infrastructure (laser, vacuumm system, suspensions and seismic isolation).The main objectives of this proposal are to build up technical capacity and capability in India in a broad range of multidisciplinary fields associated with gravitational wave detection. This field is very wide in nature and the technologies required range from delicate mechanical instrumentation, through high and low power laser optics to signal processing and large data handling, and thus capacity built up from the work of this proposal will have wide application in other fields. We have already identified several UK-India comapny linkages in the areas of machine learning, sensors & autonomous systems & data algorithms, and we propose to share our experience of methods to spin-out high technology research into applied fields.The consortium behind this proposal in the UK - the Universities of the West of Scotland, Glasgow, Cardiff, Birmingham, Southampton, and Sheffield - has a strong and extensive track record in detector development, data analysis and background theory and astrophysics for the gravitational wave field, as well as working with industry, in public outreach and school teacher CPD. Thus it is ideally suited to provide training for PhD students, research assistants and early career researchers in the ODA country of India to build capacity and make these countries major contributors to the international community and to provide dedicated summer schools/workshops in the UK utilising the expansive UK training network, for training the incoming members from the ODA countries in the necessary data analysis and experimental hardware techniques. Further the consortium will arrange opportunities for researchers to travel to/from India and the UK to capacity build and perform on-site training of researchers. Such a model has already shown to be extremely valuable in the transfer of UK expertise to both the US during the construction of Advanced LIGO and in Japan, during the construction of KAGRA.