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-0947765Balsara过去几年，计算天体物理学从天体物理学的边缘活动转变为主流活动。 它仍然是一个相当年轻的领域，正在迅速流行，尤其是在对计算机更加了解的年轻天文学家中。 将计算天体物理学作为年轻天文学家培训的主流课题将是非常有利的。 然而，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。 巴尔萨拉博士正在编写这样一本教科书，其大致模式是根据非常成功的文本“数字食谱”编写的，但进展相当缓慢。 该奖项免除了巴尔萨拉博士的其他职责，并允许他集中精力完成这本书。 它还支持为文本中的问题提供高质量解决方案的研究生，以及一些进行演示、咨询和协作的旅行。即将出版的本书通过大量直观的论点和大量的内容来教授背景材料。示例代码。 它的前半部分本质上是一个学期的课程，而后半部分更多的是一本研究专着。 由此产生的文本对于计算天体物理学领域的实践科学家或考虑加入计算天体物理学领域的科学家以及在高级课程中使用具有重要价值。 因此，希望本文能够吸引更多的人进入该领域，并促进该领域的新研究。该奖项是在“快速反应研究补助金（RAPID）”计划下颁发的。