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

IRES Track I：计算纳米科学学生的国际研究经验

• 批准号: 2245029
• 负责人: Kalman Varga
• 金额: $ 27.44万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2245029&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Track; International; Research; Experience

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.

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、物理和化学领域的重要技术问题。范德比尔特大学的研究人员将在理论和实践方面对美国学生进行培训。计算机模拟，并通过国际研究环境中计算项目的研究机会来增强他们的专业发展 IRES 站点将建立在全新独特的极端光基础设施 ELI 阿秒光脉冲源 (ELI-ALPS) 设施中。匈牙利塞格德预计 ELI-ALPS 未来将对材料科学、医学和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。与匈牙利东道主合作的 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沉浸在具有挑战性和技术重要的计算纳米科学中。学生将开发并使用计算机模拟工具来模拟光和纳米级物质的相互作用，并通过大规模变分计算探索强耦合混合光物质状态，并使用耦合麦克斯韦量子方法。描述纳米结构中的激光激发，研究项目包括光控电子传输、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、信息处理和量子直接相关。 PI 小组的本科生开发的一种新方法将用于描述光腔中光与物质的相互作用。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用该奖项的评估被认为值得支持。基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。