New Frontiers of Sound (NewFoS) Science and Technology Center

声学的最新进展表明，拓扑声学（TA）具有非凡的特性，例如对无序和障碍物的极端抵抗，使得TA波可以在非均匀和包含障碍物的域中传播而不会产生回声或反射。基于这些独特的特性和最近发表在同行评审的美国和国际期刊上的研究成果，声音新前沿（NewFoS）科学技术中心（STC）正在使用TA解决多个典型的重大挑战。这些重大挑战研究途径有助于1)提高美国在量子信息科学科学领域的全球竞争力，2)显著影响无线通信的未来，3)大规模应用TA绕过物理世界中的遥感限制。NewFoS STC正在推进对TA的固有特征和性质及其潜在应用的理解。NewFoS STC通过支持利用助教在传统和非传统声学应用中创造新的或更好的技术的研究，以及为下一代助教学习者和实践者提供教育材料和范例，拓宽了人们对声学的理解。在以使用为灵感的拓扑声学（TA）研究和基于上下文的教育中，声音的新前沿（NewFoS）科学技术中心（STC）正在通过以下方式推进知识：(a)揭示和理解控制未开发的TA波隐藏属性的科学规律；(b)使多学科融合，在推动TA波的技术应用的同时，充分利用TA波的属性；(c)在指导生态系统框架内为教育创造基于情境的资源，以推动公平并赋予TA新的用途。NewFoS正在利用未开发的几何相位、相干性和鲁棒性属性作为资源来解决两种类型的高影响力综合活动：(a)问题驱动型项目，依赖于TA方法来实现当今信息科学、电信、传感和成像领域重大挑战的独特解决方案；(b)可能性驱动的研究方法，其中技术分析是推动未实现可能性实现的引擎。newfo正在确保美国在基于相干的量子技术互补方法方面的领导地位，该方法不会受到当前量子系统的一些挑战的影响。该STC还在开发首个可操作、低成本、小型化、低功耗的功能TA射频设备，为先进的电信技术提供健壮性。此外，NewFoS STC超越了目前遥感技术的限制，可以使用TA连续监测自然环境。此外，NewFoS STC是一个国家资源，用于聚合技术及其应用的研究和教育。该STC致力于从多个研究和教育角度来解决围绕TA的科学挑战，包括但不限于数学；材料科学;物理;机械、电气、土木工程；以及环境、地质、医学和信息/数据科学。通过与行业合作，该技术中心还确保了将基于人工智能的科学突破有效转化为新技术。NewFoS还开发了下一代声学教育所需的教学和基于助教的资源，制作了第一本印刷和数字英语助教教科书，社区大学研究研讨会，以及学生课程设计研讨会课程。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARYRecent advances in acoustics, have revealed topological acoustics (TA) possess extraordinary properties such as extreme resistance to disorder and obstructions such that TA waves can be transmitted in domains that are non-homogeneous and contain obstructions without generating echoes or reflections. Based on these unique properties and recent work published in peer-reviewed U.S. and international journals, the New Frontiers of Sound (NewFoS) Science and Technology Center (STC) is tackling multiple exemplar grand challenges using TA. These grand challenge avenues of investigation are 1) contributing to U.S. global competitiveness in the scientific arena of quantum information science, 2) significantly impacting the future of wireless communication and 3) applying TA to bypass remote sensing limitations in the physical world at scale. The NewFoS STC is advancing understanding of the innate characteristics and properties of TA as well as its potential applications. The NewFoS STC is broadening understanding of acoustics by supporting research that uses TA to make new or better technologies in both traditional and non-traditional acoustics applications as well as generating educational materials and paradigms that will inform the next generation of TA learners and practitioners.TECHNICAL SUMMARYWithin use-inspired topological acoustics (TA) research and context-based education, the New Frontiers of Sound (NewFoS) Science and Technology Center (STC) is advancing knowledge by: (a) revealing and understanding the scientific laws governing the untapped hidden attributes of TA waves; (b) enabling the convergence of multiple disciplines to exploit the full attributes of TA waves while advancing their technological applications; and (c) creating context-based resources for education within the framework of a Mentoring Ecosystem to drive equity and empower new usage of TA. NewFoS is using the untapped attributes of geometric phase, coherence, and robustness as resources to address two types of high-impact integrative activities: (a) problem-driven projects which rely on TA approaches to achieve unique solutions to today’s grand challenges in information science, telecommunication, sensing, and imaging; and (b) possibility-driven research approaches where TA is the engine driving unrealized possibilities to fruition. NewFoS is ensuring US leadership in a coherence-based complementary approach to quantum technology that does not suffer from some of the challenges of current quantum systems. This STC is also developing the first operational, low-cost, miniaturized, low-power functional TA radio-frequency device that exploits robustness for advanced telecommunications. Furthermore, this NewFoS STC is surpassing current limits of remote sensing technologies to continuously monitor the natural environment using TA. The NewFoS STC is additionally a national resource for convergent research and education in TA and its applications. This STC is engaging multiple research and educational perspectives to solve scientific challenges surrounding TA including, but not limited to, mathematics; materials science; physics; mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering; as well as environmental, geological, medical, and information/data sciences. By engaging industry, this STC is also ensuring the effective translation of TA-based scientific breakthroughs into new technologies. NewFoS is also developing the pedagogical and TA-based resources needed for the next generation of acoustic education by generating the first in-print and digital English-language TA textbook, a community college research workshop, and a curriculum-design seminar course for students.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.