UCL Astrophysics Short-term Visitor Programme 2010-2012

在过去的十年里，伦敦大学学院物理与天文学系的短期访问学者项目成功地为我们的研究小组带来了许多国际合作者和有价值的研究科学家。从观测天文学和天体物理学到宇宙学和天文仪器，这些访问涵盖了广泛的研究领域，导致了许多成功的合作和科学出版物。该计划以极具成本效益的方式为目前的合作项目提供了密集的咨询和额外的动力。直接的相互作用有助于确保富有成效的研究，增加通过举办更多研讨会进一步传播的机会，促进及时出版结果，并引发诸如观察运动等新倡议。许多访问都有科学回报，邀请伦敦大学学院的成员参加或在会议和研讨会上发表他们的成果。该项目最终也是拓宽研究生和stfc资助的研究助理的经验和联系的有效途径，有利于他们的职业前景。我们建议继续我们在伦敦大学学院的成功和富有成效的短期访问计划，以涵盖stfc资助的天体物理学理论和观测领域的研究。该基金将支持来自海外和英国的个人访问，通常每次访问持续5天，与我们在伦敦大学学院的天文学和天体物理学小组（英国最大的天文学小组之一）直接接触，该小组最近也经历了宇宙学和系外行星领域的重大扩展。访问将通过直接交流、出版研究刊物、使用海外设施，以及为研究和资助创造新的机会，为我们的研究小组带来大量和高成本效益的好处。

The programme supporting short-term visitors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in UCL has allowed in the past decade to successfully bring many international collaborators and valued research scientists to work in close contact with our research groups. Spanning a broad range of research fields from observational astronomy and astrophysics to cosmology and astronomical instrumentation, these visits have resulted in many successful collaborations and scientific publications. The scheme has provided periods of intensive consultation and additional impetus for current collaborative projects in a very cost effective manner. The direct interactions help to ensure productive research, add the opportunity of further dissemination with additional seminars, promote the timely publication of the results and have sparked new initiatives such as observing campaigns. Many visits have had a scientific return in the invitation of UCL members to attend or deliver their results at conferences and workshops. This program ultimately is also an effective way to broaden the experiences and contacts of postgraduate students and STFC-funded research assistants benefiting their career prospects. We propose to continue our successful and productive short-term visitor programme at UCL to cover STFC-funded astrophysics research in theoretical and observational areas. The grant would support individual visits from overseas and the UK, typically lasting 5 days each to work in direct contact with our astronomy and astrophysics group here in UCL (one of the largest astronomy groups in the UK) which has also undergone a recent major expansion into the areas of cosmology and exoplanets. The visits will provide substantial and highly cost effect benefits to our research groups through direct interactions, output of research publications, access to overseas facilities, and generation of new opportunities for research and funding.