The McWilliams Center for Cosmology Seed Grant program upholds personnel, postdoctoral colleagues, and examination staff who need to investigate another space of exploration as well as kick off their examination movement.
The program is intended to energize authentic coordinated efforts between staff/postdocs partnered with the Center for Cosmology and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) that include either new roads of exploration or the attainability testing of new techniques. The objective of the seed award is to give primer outcomes and build up validity in another exploration region that will draw in high-sway research subsidizing from the state and central government, establishments or industry. The awards may likewise uphold research that will build the intensity of staff in pulling in high-sway multidisciplinary and focus level examination financing.
The one-year seed awards give $10,000-$40,000 in help to an employee, postdocs and graduate understudies, and additionally staff to lead starter investigations, exhibit verification of idea, gather primer information, and set up the potential for high effect of the proposed thought for future proposition entries. The award will likewise give a distribution of 250k SU on Bridges-2 at PSC to each grant with the chance of an expanded assignment if very much advocated.
The Center will think about proposition from personnel/postdocs/research staff that:
Investigate another space of examination that may possibly be high danger yet additionally give high award. We are searching for extremist groundbreaking thoughts that would give energizing new headings, not little changes in existing exploration center.
Empower workforce/postdocs to band together with PSC staff/scientists with corresponding specialized aptitude to exhibit a significant cooperation for future joint proposition entries.
Personnel/postdocs/research staff subsidiary with the McWilliams focus ought to set up a concise proposition (< 2 pages) following the organization beneath. Entries as PI will be restricted to one for each individual (not blocking cooperation on different proposition).
Task Summary – Brief rundown of the proposed action that traces the issue to be tended to, why it is significant and who will be engaged with the work.
Groundbreaking thought and Leverage – Discussion of how an unassuming seed award can establish the framework for a novel thought for an extended movement, ideally including explicit ideas for wellsprings of future help.
PSC cooperation – Explain exercises that join specialized or other aptitude from PSC and hold the possibility to have critical effect in the following not many years to the proposed line of examination. Clarify, whenever mentioned, how the 250k SU on Bridges-2 will be utilized if a bigger designation is required (furnish the quantity of SUs mentioned with a legitimization).
Spending plan – Budget will be given specially to help of PhD understudies, hardware, and compensation of non-residency track workforce/postdocs or staff.
Applications should be submitted by means of this online structure by 06/07/2021.
Proposition will be explored by a staff council included McWilliams Center Faculty Affiliates. Analysts who are involved with a proposition won't be approached to rank their own accommodation. Last determination of award champs will be investigated by McWilliams Center Director Tiziana Di Matteo and PSC Director Shawn Brown.
