Newton STFC Capacity Building with LIGO-India

随着去年LIGO科学合作首次直接观测到来自合并黑洞的引力波，世界各地对扩大未来探测器网络的范围产生了极大的兴趣，因为引力波天文学为宇宙打开了一扇新的窗口。随着印度第三台aLIGO探测器的选址，迫切需要有批判性技能的学生，博士后和早期职业研究人员接受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很好的记录，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），印度科学教育和研究所（IISER）和海得拉巴的TIFR跨学科科学中心。在该项目的粗略阶段，我们还将与原子能部各组织建立联系：等离子体研究所（IPR），甘地纳加尔和拉贾拉曼纳先进技术中心（RRCAT），印多尔将领导基础设施的发展（激光，真空系统，悬挂和地震隔离）20.这项建议的主要目标是在与下列方面有关的广泛多学科领域建立印度的技术能力和能力：引力波探测这一领域的性质非常广泛，所需的技术范围从精密的机械仪器到高功率和低功率激光光学器件，再到信号处理和大量数据处理，因此，本提案工作所积累的能力将广泛应用于其他领域。我们已经在机器学习、传感器、自主系统和数据算法领域确定了几个英印合作伙伴，我们建议分享我们在将高科技研究扩展到应用领域的方法方面的经验。英国支持这一建议的财团--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-在探测器开发，数据分析和背景理论以及引力波场的天体物理学方面有着强大而广泛的记录，以及与工业界，公共宣传和学校教师CPD的合作。因此，它非常适合为博士生提供培训，在印度的ODA国家的研究助理和早期职业研究人员，以建设能力，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，为来自官方发展援助国家的新成员提供必要的数据分析和实验硬件技术方面的培训。此外，该联盟将为研究人员安排往返印度和英国的机会，以进行能力建设和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英国专业知识转移到美国在建设先进的LIGO和在日本，在建设KAGRA。

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.