Partial Support for Publication of Proceedings of the "Strings 90" Meeting; College Station, Texas; March 1990

1990年3月12日至17日，在德克萨斯农工大学召开了“90弦”会议，讨论基本粒子物理学超弦理论的各个方面。会议汇集了许多在超弦理论方面的高级和初级的顶尖专家，讨论了最近的发展和未来的方向。虽然超弦理论有可能回答一个非常基本的问题，即如何描述和统一包括重力在内的所有基本力，但它也非常困难，而且在像这样的会议上进行的相互作用对该领域的进展非常重要。同样重要的是出版一份会议记录，这将使许多无法参加会议的人能够了解会议上报告的事态发展。程序的创建是本奖项支持的项目。

"Strings '90," a conference dealing with various aspects of the superstring theory of elementary particle physics, was held March 12-17, 1990 at Texas A&M University. The conference brought together many leading experts, both junior and senior, in superstring theory to discuss recent developments and future directions. While superstring theory is potentially the answer to the very fundamental question of how one may describe and unify all of the fundamental forces, including gravity, itis also dauntingly difficult, and interactions which can take place at conferences such as this one are very important to progress in the field. Also important is the publication of a proceedings which will make the developments reported at the conference accessible to the many unable to attend. The creation of the proceedings is the project supported by the present award.