PostDoctoral Research Fellowship

通过对宇宙微波背景（CMB）的精确测量，天体物理学家们解决了关于宇宙在时间开始时的本质的最令人兴奋的问题，包括探索宇宙在时间的最初时刻经历剧烈膨胀的广泛持有的理论。申请人计划在哈佛天体物理中心的SPUD阵列工作，SPUD阵列是一套新的接收器，将从南极观测，旨在发现暴胀的第一个直接特征：宇宙微波背景中留下的原始b模偏振印记。这项研究的智力价值在于，申请者在开发新的分析工具的同时，从粒子物理学的经验中，通过数据分析的努力，直接探索宇宙。为了更广泛的影响，申请人计划为探索博物馆？该网站名为“冰的故事：极地科学家的快讯”，该网站分享了有关南极洲天体物理学研究的故事。她还计划成为世界望远镜大使，公开演讲，并将南极望远镜的图像添加到世界望远镜？S基于计算机的天文学可视化教育工具。

Through precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), astrophysicists tackle the most exciting questions about the nature of the Universe at the beginning of time, including probing the widely-held theory that the Universe underwent violent Inflation during the first moments of time. The applicant plans to work at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics on the SPUD Array, a new set of receivers that will observe from the South Pole aiming to discover the first direct signature of Inflation: the primordial B-mode polarization imprint left behind in the CMB. The intellectual merit of the proposed research is to directly probe the Universe through the data analysis effort drawn from the applicant's experience in particle physics while developing new analysis tools. For the broader impact, the applicant plans writing for the Exploratorium?s Web site "Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists", which shares stories about astrophysical research in Antarctica. She also plans to be a Worldwide Telescope Ambassador, giving public presentations and adding images from Antarctic-based telescopes to the Worldwide Telescope?s computer-based astronomy visualization tools for education.