GRAWITON: 13 DOTTORATI EUROPEI SULLE ONDE GRAVITAZIONALI.
L’INFN SEGUIRÀ LA FORMAZIONE DI TRE DOTTORANDI AL GSSI
GraWIToN is an Initial Training Network, funded by European Commission under FP7-Marie Curie Actions for four years, since the 1st of February 2014. GraWIToN aims to train 13 young researchers (PhD students) in the gravitational wave (GW) search field. This research field is in an impressive expansion period; in fact a new generation (2G) of detector is under installation and commissioning in these years. Advanced Virgo and Advanced LIGO promise the exciting discovery, in few years, of the first GW signal, predicted by the Albert Einstein General Relativity. The GW scientific community is continuously growing , and new actors are appearing in this scenario; a relevant boosting action is due to the Einstein Telescope project (ET), a future European Research Infrastructure, designed with the support of the European Commission thanks to a FP7 design study concluded in 2011.
The young researchers will be embedded in this exciting research environment and will be trained in the cutting edge technologies adopted in the Gravitational Wave detectors. Complex optical apparatuses, high power and low noise lasers, high reflective coatings, optical simulation and modelling using parallel computing systems are the crucial technologies used in gravitational wave detectors that are extremely interesting in the industrial sector, as highlighted by the participation of two private companies as full participants and two as associated partner. The multidisciplinary aspect is completed by the astrophysics training, fundamental for a future researcher in this field, and by an expressly multidisciplinary module, addressed to the management and outreaching skills. The participation to this project of research institutes and universities will guarantee the possibility for the young researchers to achieve to doctorate degree. The participation to GraWIToN of four private companies will increase improve the training of the young researchers and increase their future employment possibilities. The complex network training is based on common schools, research activities and secondments in the labs of the participating partners.
Parte domani 1° febbraio il progetto GraWIToN, un initial training network grazie al quale tredici giovani ricercatori europei saranno formati nel campo della ricerca sulle onde gravitazionali con interferometri, come ad esempio Virgo, l’esperimento nato a Pisa dalla collaborazione tra l’Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) e il francese CNRS.
GraWIToN rientra nell’ambito delle Marie Curie Actions del VII Programma Quadro (FP7) ed è finanziato per quattro anni con un contributo di circa 3,7 milioni di euro. Il progetto è coordinato dal consorzio EGO, fondato da INFN e CNRS, e vede la partecipazione dell’INFN assieme ad altri due istituti di ricerca, cinque università e tre aziende, italiani ed esteri.
“GraWIToN focalizzerà le sue attività di formazione su alcuni aspetti della ricerca sulle onde gravitazionali sviluppati anche grazie all’esperimento Virgo, – spiega Michele Punturo, primo ricercatore INFN e coordinatore internazionale del progetto – aspetti che hanno una ricaduta diretta nel campo industriale, dall’ottica di precisione al laser a basso rumore, per fare un paio di esempi”. “In Italia saranno assunti in totale cinque giovani ricercatori – prosegue Punturo – e il training iniziale delle tre persone in forze all’INFN sarà seguito dal Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), le cui caratteristiche di internazionalità e multi-disciplinarietà si accordano perfettamente con le richieste di GraWIToN”. I giovani completeranno poi la loro formazione sperimentale in alcune delle sezioni INFN che partecipano al progetto Advanced Virgo, mentre gli altri due giovani ricercatori assunti nel nostro Paese frequenteranno il loro corso di dottorato all’Università di Pisa.
“Il coordinamento del progetto FP7 GraWIToN, che segue i precedenti progetti Einstein Telescope Design Study e ELiTES, coordinati anche essi da EGO – commenta Federico Ferrini direttore di EGO – è un ulteriore riconoscimento della centralità a livello della European Research Area del Consorzio per quanto concerne la fisica della gravitazione”.
Per informazioni
Antonella Varaschin
INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Ufficio per la Comunicazione
GraWIToN is an Initial Training Network, funded by European Commission under FP7-Marie Curie Actions for four years, since the 1st of February 2014. GraWIToN aims to train 13 young researchers (PhD students) in the gravitational wave (GW) search field. This research field is in an impressive expansion period; in fact a new generation (2G) of detector is under installation and commissioning in these years. Advanced Virgo and Advanced LIGO promise the exciting discovery, in few years, of the first GW signal, predicted by the Albert Einstein General Relativity. The GW scientific community is continuously growing , and new actors are appearing in this scenario; a relevant boosting action is due to the Einstein Telescope project (ET), a future European Research Infrastructure, designed with the support of the European Commission thanks to a FP7 design study concluded in 2011.
The young researchers will be embedded in this exciting research environment and will be trained in the cutting edge technologies adopted in the Gravitational Wave detectors. Complex optical apparatuses, high power and low noise lasers, high reflective coatings, optical simulation and modelling using parallel computing systems are the crucial technologies used in gravitational wave detectors that are extremely interesting in the industrial sector, as highlighted by the participation of two private companies as full participants and two as associated partner. The multidisciplinary aspect is completed by the astrophysics training, fundamental for a future researcher in this field, and by an expressly multidisciplinary module, addressed to the management and outreaching skills. The participation to this project of research institutes and universities will guarantee the possibility for the young researchers to achieve to doctorate degree. The participation to GraWIToN of four private companies will increase improve the training of the young researchers and increase their future employment possibilities. The complex network training is based on common schools, research activities and secondments in the labs of the participating partners.
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