IRES Track I: International Research Experience for Students in Computational Nanoscience

该提案的愿景是激励学生成为新一代计算科学家的一部分，通过计算机模拟解决材料科学，物理和化学中的重要技术问题。范德比尔特大学的研究人员将在计算机模拟的理论和实践方面对美国学生进行培训，并通过在国际研究环境中进行计算项目的研究机会来加强他们的专业发展。IRES站点将建立在匈牙利塞格德全新独特的极端光基础设施ELI阿秒光脉冲源（ELI- alps）设施中。预计未来ELI-ALPS将对材料科学、医学、环境保护等众多领域产生巨大影响。ELI-ALPS是一个真正的国际实验室，拥有来自世界各地数十个国家的研究人员。与匈牙利东道主一起工作的IRES学生将参加ELI-ALPS的各种项目的理论实验合作。该提案的主要目标是让美国本科生在国际合作框架下沉浸在具有挑战性和技术重要性的计算纳米科学项目中。学生将开发和使用计算机模拟工具来模拟光和纳米尺度物质的相互作用。强耦合混合光物质态将通过大规模变分计算进行探索，耦合麦克斯韦-量子方法将用于描述纳米结构中的激光激发。研究项目包括光控电子输运、太赫兹电子学、电子棘轮、混合耦合和光物质系统的研究；与量子等离子体，信息处理和量子计算直接相关。由PI小组的本科生开发的一种新方法将用于描述光和物质在光学腔中的相互作用。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。

The vision of this proposal is to motivate students to become part of a new generation ofcomputational scientists solving important technological problems in materials science, physics andchemistry by computer simulations. The researchers from Vanderbilt University will train U.S. students in both theoretical and practical aspects of computer simulations, and enhance their professional development with research opportunities in computational projects in an international research environment. The IRES site will be established at the brand new unique Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI Attosecond Light Pulse Source (ELI-ALPS) facility in Szeged, Hungary. It is expected that the ELI-ALPS will have a huge impact on numerous fields of materials sciences, medicine, and environment protection in the future. The ELI-ALPS is a truly international laboratory with researchers from dozens of countries from all over the world. The IRES students working with the Hungarian hosts will join theoretical-experimental collaborations working on various projects in ELI-ALPS.The main objective of the proposal is to immerse U.S. undergraduate students in challenging and technologically important computational nanoscience projects in an international collaborative framework. The students will develop and use computer simulation tools to model the interaction of light and nanoscale matter. Strongly coupled hybrid light matter states will be explored with large scale variational calculations and a coupled Maxwell-quantum approach will be used to describe laser excitations in nanostructures. The research projects include the study of light-controlled electron transport, terahertz electronics, electron ratchets, hybrid coupled and light-matter systems; with direct relevance to quantum plasmonics, information processing and quantum computations. A new approach, which was developed by the undergraduate students in the PI’s group, will be used to describe the interaction of light and matter in optical cavities.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.