AccelNet-Design: Extreme Light in Space, Intensity, Time and Space(X-lites)

20世纪60年代末激光的发明使科学和技术取得了广泛的进步，从通信到外科手术，从面部识别到火星土壤分析。激光科学和技术不断发展，新一代激光器正在以最高强度、最快时间和最短距离进入激光与物质相互作用的前沿。强度、时间和空间中的极端光（X-lites）网络建立在这些技术进步的基础上，组织和支持世界各地的科学家研究和应用这种极端光。X-lites是一个新的全球网络，将跨学科和地理边界的科学家的工作联合起来，以支持下一代科学进步，研究人员培训，技能发展和激光技术。X-lites通过支持团队建设、知识共享和教育来加速发现和发明。X-lites应用团队科学（SciTS）来建立现有的研究人员网络，开发和应用极端光。X-lites建立在美国和欧洲对研究设施的投资基础上，这些设施提供了尖端的极端光功能。X-lites网络建立在耦合的两层网络概念上，该概念已被证明可以有效地形成有影响力的网络。一个网络层链接用户设施，第二层链接这些设施的用户。用户是一个多样化的研究人员社区，他们利用基础设施投资来探索物理、化学、生物、材料等方面的问题。X-lites举办关于有效团队合作的研讨会和短期课程，然后是研究人员社区会议，以加强联系，实现协作，收集关于关键技术挑战的反馈，并塑造X-lites的未来。这些活动有意吸引早期职业和不同的研究人员（即，通过国际网络对网络合作加速研究（Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations，简称CNET）计划旨在加速科学发现的进程，并为下一代美国研究人员进行多团队国际合作做好准备。该计划支持美国研究网络和海外互补网络之间的战略联系，这些网络将利用研究和教育资源来应对需要重大协调国际努力的重大科学挑战。该项目由国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The invention of the laser in the late 1960s enabled a wide range of scientific and technological advances, from communications to surgery to facial recognition to analysis of Martian soil. Laser science and technologies continue to advance, and a new generation of lasers are accessing frontiers of laser-matter interactions at the highest intensities, the fastest times, and the shortest distances. The Extreme Light in Intensity, Time, and Space (X-lites) network builds on these technological advances to organize and support scientists around the world as they research and apply this extreme light. X-lites is a new global network that unites the work of scientists across disciplines and geographic borders to support the next generation of scientific advances, researcher training, skills development, and laser technology. X-lites accelerates discovery and invention through its support of team building, knowledge sharing, and education.X-lites applies the Science of Team Science (SciTS) to build on existing networks of researchers developing and applying extreme light. X-lites builds on US and European investments in research facilities that provide access to cutting edge extreme light capabilities. The X-lites network is built on a coupled, two-layer network concept that has proven to be effective in forming impactful networks. One networked layer links user facilities, and the second layer links these facility's users. Users are a diverse community of researchers taking advantage of infrastructure investments to explore questions in physics, chemistry, biology, materials, and more. X-lites hosts workshops and short courses on effective teaming, followed by meetings of the researcher community to strengthen connections, enable collaboration, gather feedback on the key technical challenges, and shape the future of X-lites. These activities intentionally engage early career and diverse researchers (i.e., diverse demographics, scientific specialties, and geographic locations) who are the future of these fields and who drive X-lites and extreme light science, technologies, and applications forward.The Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program is designed to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations. The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. This project is funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.