Travel Support to Attend Workshop on Gravitational Wave Bursts at Tobermory, Scotland

该奖项将资助科学家参加引力波爆发：天体物理、数据分析和数值相对论研讨会。引力波爆发是一种短信号，有可能揭示最广泛的引力辐射源：例如恒星核坍塌、伽马射线爆发引擎、宇宙弦、致密天体合并、孤立的中子星。观测短时灾变事件的完美风暴正在到来，它们配备了LIGO等引力天线。现在是时候挑战对瞬变引力波天空的理论理解，以及它与更传统的电磁天空的联系。举办研讨会的时机也已经成熟，能够对数据分析和数值建模工具进行批判性审查，使引力波观测成为现实。研讨会将鼓励在一个促进天体物理学、数据分析和数值相对论社区研究人员之间协同合作的环境中，对努力和方法进行沟通和批判性评估。这次会议将成为引力波物理学跨学科讲习班的范本，为评价多学科领域的工作状况、评估方法和挑战以及确定变革性机会提供了一个合作框架的范例。

This award will fund the participation of scientists to the workshop Gravitational Wave Bursts: Astrophysics, Data Analysis and Numerical Relativity. Gravitational wave bursts are short signals with the potential of unveiling the broadest range of sources of gravitational radiation: e.g. stellar core collapse, gamma-ray bursts engines, cosmic strings, compact object mergers, isolated neutron stars. The perfect storm of observations of short duration cataclysmic events is arriving with gravitational antennas such as LIGO. Now is the time to challenge the theoretical understanding of the transient gravitational wave sky and its connection to the more traditional electromagnetic firmament. The time is also ripe for a workshop that enables critical review of the data analysis and numerical modeling tools that will make gravitational-wave observations a reality.The workshop will encourage communication and critical evaluation of efforts and methodologies, in an environment that promotes synergistic collaborations among researchers from the astrophysics, data analysis and numerical relativity communities. The meeting will serve as a model for inter-disciplinary workshops in gravitational-wave physics, providing an example of a collaborative framework to evaluate the status of the effort in a multi-disciplinary area, assess methodologies and challenges, and identify transformative opportunities.