RAPID: Courseware Development for Computational Astrophysics

RAPID：计算天体物理学课件开发

• 批准号: 0947765
• 负责人: Dinshaw Balsara
• 金额: $ 7.05万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0947765&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Courseware; Development; Computational; Astrophysics

AST-0947765BalsaraThe last few years have seen computational astrophysics move from being a fringe activity in astrophysics to being a mainstream activity. It is still quite a young field that is catching on fast, especially among the younger astronomers who are more computer-aware. It would be very advantageous to make computational astrophysics a mainstream topic in the training of young astronomers. However, the absence of a standard text in computational astrophysics is a major impediment in achieving that goal. Dr. Balsara is part-way through writing such a text book, loosely patterned after the very successful text 'Numerical Recipes', but progress has been quite slow. This award relieves Dr. Balsara from other duties and permits a concentrated push to take the book to completion. It also supports a graduate student who is producing high-quality solutions to the problems in the text, and some travel for presentation, consultation, and collaboration.The book to be produced teaches the background material with a lot of intuitive arguments and ample pieces of example code. Its first half is essentially a one-semester course, while the second half is more of a research monograph. The resultant text will be of great value to practicing scientists in, or thinking of joining, the field of computational astrophysics, as well as of use in high level courses. It is, therefore, hoped that the text will draw more people into the field, as well as catalyze new research in this field.This award is made under the "Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID)" program.

AST-0947765BALSARATHE最近几年已经看到，计算天体物理学从作为天体物理学的边缘活动转变为主流活动。 这仍然是一个很年轻的领域，尤其是在更具计算机意识的年轻天文学家中。 在年轻天文学家培训中，将计算天体物理学成为主流话题将是非常有利的。 但是，计算天体物理学中缺乏标准文本是实现这一目标的主要障碍。 Balsara博士正在撰写这样的教科书，这是一个非常成功的文本“数字食谱”，但进步很慢。 该奖项使Balsara博士摆脱了其他职责，并允许集中精力完成这本书完成。 它还支持一名研究生，他正在为文本中的问题提供高质量的解决方案，并提供一些旅行，进行演示，咨询和协作。本书要生产的书，教授背景材料，其中有许多直观的论点和充足的示例代码。 它的上半场本质上是一个学期课程，而下半场则更多是研究专着。 最终的文本对于在计算天体物理学领域以及在高层课程中使用的科学家或思考加入的科学家将具有很大的价值。 因此，希望该文本将吸引更多的人进入该领域，并在该领域催化新的研究。该奖项是在“快速响应研究（快速）”计划的“赠款”下颁发的。