Agnieszka Sorensen, assistant professor of physics at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, and in the Michigan State University Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program, or CAREER, award from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
The award will support Sorensen’s project, “CAREER: Microscopic Transport, Machine Learning, and Bayesian Analysis for Extracting the Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC and FRIB.”
Sorensen will combine advanced theoretical modeling, machine learning and statistical methods with data from heavy-ion collision experiments at FRIB and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Her goal is to map out how dense nuclear matter behaves under varying conditions of density, temperature and composition.