Bhawin Dhitalwas awarded an international fellowship at the EIC Center at Jefferson Lab.The Electron-Ion Collider Center at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (EIC Center at Jefferson Lab) has announced the winners of six international fellowships. The fellows will pursue research over the next year related to advancing the science program of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a one-of-a-kind nuclear physics research facility to be built over the next decade at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, in partnership with Jefferson Lab.
To enhance the research goals of this unique collider, the EIC Center at Jefferson Lab awards one-year fellowships to support the efforts of early-career scientists working on advancing the EIC. Funding for the fellowship program is provided by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and fellows must spend at least half of their time during the duration of the fellowship at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia.
Now in its third year, the program supports early-career researchers who are working on advancing the theory, accelerator design, detector design, experimental design or computing environment in support of the EIC. This year's awardees are pursuing a wide range of R&D toward realizing the potential of the EIC.
Bhawin will study the two-energy storage ring cooler to improve the luminosity of the EIC.
Keegan Sherman was also named part of the SCGSR program from the DOE. The goal of the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission, by providing graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories. The SCGSR program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory/facility in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students' overall doctoral thesis while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the DOE laboratories/facilities.
The SCGSR program is sponsored and managed by the DOE Office of Science's Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS), in collaboration with the 6 Office of Science research programs and the DOE national laboratories/facilities.
The SCGSR program provides supplemental funds for graduate awardees to conduct part of their thesis research at a host DOE laboratory/facility in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist.