TAP Initiatives
The TAP Initiatives are interdisciplinary efforts developed to focus scientific discussions and advance large proposal development efforts involving multiple scientists across different units and relevant partnering departments, institutes, centers, and interdisciplinary programs. The TAP Initiatives are designed to enable interdisciplinary conversations among theorists, observers, and experimentalists on these topics.
The Initiatives meet regularly for short talks on current research, discuss new directions, and foster collaboration on projects of mutual interest among TAP members. Discussions are informal and geared towards sharing research and identifying collaborative opportunities.
All TAP members are welcome and encouraged to join these conversations. Please contact the lead person for more information and meeting dates.
Computation & Data Initiative
The TAP Computation and Data Initiative (CDI) brings together computation and data scientists with astrophysicists to collaborate, share resources, develop new methods, and trains students to become the new generation of “computation native” scientists.
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Cosmology Initiative
The TAP Cosmology Initiative brings together theory, computation and data driven astrophysicists to tackle some of the most pressing problems in Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, including the Nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter, using next generation computational simulations, codes and observational surveys.
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Dynamics Initiative
The TAP Dynamics Initiative brings together dynamicists to tackle fundamental problems in dynamics across a vast range of physical scales, from the motions of dark matter particles in galactic halos, to the dynamics of planetary and stellar bodies, all the way to galactic collisions.
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Gravity Initiative
The TAP Gravity Initiative brings together researchers from astronomy and physics to study the fundamental laws of gravity and their manifestation in the observable universe, primarily in the extreme environments of black holes and neutron stars, performing theoretical, computational, and observational studies.
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Planet Formation Initiative
The TAP Planet Formation Initiative studies theories of the formation and evolution of the Solar System and exoplanet systems.
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Plasma Physics Initiative
The TAP Plasma Physics Initiative (PPI) uses theory and numerical simulation, combined with remote and in situ observations of space and astrophysical plasmas, to constrain fundamental questions about how energy, mass, and momentum are injected into, transported through, and removed from a wide variety of plasma systems.
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