Newton STFC Capacity Building with LIGO-India

Newton STFC 与 LIGO-India 进行能力建设

• 批准号: ST/T001402/1
• 负责人: Giles Hammond
• 金额: $ 27.68万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FT001402%2F1
• 关键词: Newton; STFC; Capacity; Building; LIGO

With the first direct observation of gravitational waves from coalescing black holes and neutron stars by the LIGO/VIRGO Scientific collaborations (2015) there has been great interest around the world in extending the reach of the future detector network, as gravitational wave astronomy opens a new window on the Universe. Indeed with the detection of a gravitational and electromagnetic signature from GW170817, a binary neutron start inspiral, the era of multi-messenger astronomy is truly here. With the siting of the 3rd aLIGO detector in India, an Indian megaproject, there is an essential need for critically skilled students, postdocs and early career researchers to be trained at the highest level in gravitational wave astronomy, for construction of the infrastructure & technology, development of high performance computing/machine learning algorithms and efficient data pipelines. In turn, the LIGO India project will help Indian scientific community to be a major player in the emerging research frontier of GW astronomy. There are further opportunities to captalise on the recently STFC funded A+ upgrade (STFC are supporting the $30million NSF aLIGO upgrade at 30%), allowing the LIGO India detector to integrate the most up-to-date technology when it is switched on in 2024.Based on the model of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, there is a huge potential for inclusive growth across many areas of industry, academia and society. The UK consortia also have a strong track record of outreach & public engagement, which will be shared with our Indian collaborators; IUCAA Pune, IISER Pune, TIFR Hyderabad, Indian Institute Technology Madras and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, who are tasked with growing the scientific community in India. We are also working to develop linkages with the Department of Atomic Energy organisations: Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar and the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore who will be leading the development of infrastructure (laser, vacuum system, suspensions and seismic isolation).The main objectives of this proposal are to build up technical capacity and capability in India in a broad range of multidisciplinary fields associated with gravitational wave detection. This field is very wide in nature and the technologies required range from delicate mechanical instrumentation, through high and low power laser optics to signal processing and large data handling, and thus capacity built up from the work of this proposal will have wide application in other fields. We have already identified several UK-India company linkages in the areas of machine learning, sensors & autonomous systems & data algorithms, and we propose to share our experience of methods to spin-out high technology research into applied fields. A British Trade Embassy delegation to the UK in April 2019, funded by our current award, is a key indicator of the potential in this area.The consortium behind this proposal in the UK - the Universities of the West of Scotland, Glasgow, Cardiff, Birmingham, Strathclyde, Southampton, and Sheffield - has a strong and extensive track record in detector development, data analysis and background theory and astrophysics for the gravitational wave field, as well as working with industry, in public outreach and school teacher CPD. Thus it is ideally suited to provide training for students, research assistants and early career researchers in the ODA country of India to build capacity and make these countries major contributors to the international community and to provide dedicated summer schools/workshops in the UK utilising the expansive UK training network, for training the incoming members from the ODA countries in the necessary data analysis and experimental hardware techniques. Further the consortium will arrange opportunities for researchers to travel to/from India and the UK to capacity build and perform on-site training of researchers

随着 LIGO/VIRGO 科学合作项目（2015 年）首次直接观测到来自合并黑洞和中子星的引力波，世界各地对扩展未来探测器网络的覆盖范围产生了极大的兴趣，因为引力波天文学开辟了新的领域。宇宙之窗。事实上，随着对 GW170817（二元中子起始螺旋）的引力和电磁特征的检测，多信使天文学的时代真正到来了。随着印度大型项目第三个 aLIGO 探测器在印度落户，迫切需要技能熟练的学生、博士后和早期职业研究人员接受引力波天文学最高水平的培训，以建设基础设施和技术，高性能计算/机器学习算法和高效数据管道的开发。反过来，LIGO 印度项目将帮助印度科学界成为 GW 天文学新兴研究前沿的主要参与者。还有更多机会利用最近 STFC 资助的 A+ 升级（STFC 支持 3000 万美元的 NSF aLIGO 升级 30%），使 LIGO 印度探测器能够在 2024 年启用时集成最新的技术基于LIGO科学合作模式，产学研社会多个领域包容性增长潜力巨大。英国财团在外展和公众参与方面也拥有良好的记录，这些记录将与我们的印度合作者分享； IUCAA Pune、IISER Pune、TIFR Hyderabad、印度马德拉斯理工学院和印度理工学院孟买分校，它们的任务是发展印度的科学界。我们还致力于与原子能部组织建立联系：甘地讷格尔等离子研究所 (IPR) 和印多尔 Raja Ramanna 先进技术中心 (RRCAT)，后者将领导基础设施（激光、真空系统）的发展该提案的主要目标是在印度与引力波探测相关的广泛多学科领域建立技术能力和能力。该领域本质上非常广泛，所需的技术范围从精密机械仪器、高功率和低功率激光光学到信号处理和大数据处理，因此本提案工作所建立的能力将在其他领域得到广泛应用。我们已经确定了几家英国-印度公司在机器学习、传感器、自主系统和数据算法领域的联系，我们建议分享我们将高科技研究转移到应用领域的方法经验。由我们目前的奖项资助的英国贸易大使馆代表团于 2019 年 4 月访问英国，这是该领域潜力的一个关键指标。英国这项提案背后的财团 - 苏格兰西部大学、格拉斯哥大学、卡迪夫大学、伯明翰、斯特拉斯克莱德、南安普顿和谢菲尔德 - 在引力波场的探测器开发、数据分析和背景理论和天体物理学方面拥有强大而广泛的记录，以及与工业界、公共外展和学校教师持续专业发展 (CPD) 合作。因此，它非常适合为 ODA 国家印度的学生、研究助理和早期职业研究人员提供培训，以建设能力并使这些国家成为国际社会的主要贡献者，并利用广泛的资源在英国提供专门的暑期学校/研讨会英国培训网络，用于对来自官方发展援助国家的新成员进行必要的数据分析和实验硬件技术的培训。此外，该联盟还将安排研究人员往返印度和英国的机会，以进行能力建设并对研究人员进行现场培训