Travel support for US scientists to attend GR18/Amaldi7

该奖项支持美国科学家参加第18届国际广义相对论与引力会议（GR18）和第7届Eduardo Amaldi引力波会议（Amaldi7），该会议将于2007年7月8日至14日在澳大利亚悉尼联合举行。自20世纪50年代末以来，“GR”会议每三年定期举行一次，目前全球约有500-1000名研究人员参加。自1999年以来，阿马尔迪会议每两年举行一次，代表了引力波科学发展领域最重要的国际场所。该奖项的目的是让美国在联合会议上有强大的影响力，并让美国研究人员了解他们领域的最新发展。这些资金将由一个由美国主要研究人员组成的委员会分配，并将包括部分旅行支持，以有效地利用国家科学基金会的资源和研究人员可能拥有的其他资金来源。将鼓励妇女和代表性不足的少数民族申请。这项建议将在人力资源编制方面产生广泛影响。青年研究人员的申请将优先考虑。参加重要的国际会议是培养新一代美国研究人员的重要过程。

This award supports the participation of US scientists at 18th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR18) and the 7th Eduardo Amaldi (Amaldi7) meeting on Gravitational Waves to be held jointly in Sydney, Australia, July 8-14, 2007. The "GR" meetings have been held regularly every three years since the late 1950's and now involve approximately 500-1000 researchers worldwide. The Amaldi meetings have been held every 2 years since 1999 and represent the most important international venue for the developing field of gravitational wave science. The purpose of this award is to allow a strong US presence at the joint meeting and to allow US researchers to keep current with the latest developments in their fields. The funds will be distributed by a committee of leading US researchers and will consist of partial travel support, leverage to an efficient leveraging of NSF resources with other sources of funding that researchers might have. Women and underrepresented minorities will be encouraged to apply. The broad impact of this proposal will be in the preparation of human resources. Special preference will be given to applications from young researchers. Attendance at major international conferences is a formative event in the preparation of the new generation of US researchers in the field.