REU Site: Astronomy and Informatics at the MIT Haystack Observatory

REU 站点：麻省理工学院海斯塔克天文台的天文学和信息学

• 批准号: 1659420
• 负责人: Colin Lonsdale
• 金额: $ 34.77万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-04-01 至 2021-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659420&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Astronomy; Informatics; MIT

MIT's Haystack Observatory will host a combined summer REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) and RET (Research Experiences for Teachers) site in astronomy, space sciences, geodesy, and informatics. The program will strive to recruit diverse student cohorts including students from underrepresented groups, as well as students from colleges and universities with limited local research infrastructure. The research and professional development programs will help students to understand the nature and ethics of scientific research and the skills and process necessary to become a professional scientist. Instructional Units developed by RET participants will be used in classrooms worldwide. These activities are linked through an overarching radio science theme. Each summer, seven undergraduate students and two K-12 teachers will spend ten weeks at Haystack engaged in research. Most of these will utilize major on-site facilities and instrumentation. Opportunities also exist for students to get involved with the Event Horizon Telescope, very long baseline interferometry, the Murchison Widefield Array, and in designing instrumentation for these and future facilities. The program is also a gateway to opportunities in various geospace and magnetospheric physics projects.

麻省理工学院的Haystack天文台将在天文学，太空科学，地理学和信息学中举办夏季REU（本科生的研究经验）和RET（教师研究经验）。该计划将努力招募多样化的学生队列，包括来自人为不足的团体的学生以及来自本地研究基础设施有限的大学和大学的学生。研究和专业发展计划将帮助学生了解科学研究的性质和伦理，以及成为专业科学家所必需的技能和过程。 由RET参与者开发的教学单元将在全球教室中使用。 这些活动通过总体无线电科学主题链接。每年夏天，七个本科生和两名K-12老师将在Haystack呆十周，从事研究。 其中大多数将利用主要的现场设施和仪器。 学生也有机会参与活动视野望远镜，非常长的基线干涉法，Murchison Widefield阵列以及为这些设施和未来设施设计仪器。 该计划也是各种地理和磁层物理项目的机会的门户。