Strings 2010 Conference held in Collge Station, TX

在过去的二十年里，弦理论在理论高能物理领域发挥了主导作用。它不仅提供了许多关于最高能量尺度下物理可能性的新见解，而且还导致了对规范理论、引力、甚至凝聚态物理和核(重离子)物理的新的、更深层次的理解。该奖项为Strings 2010提供支持，这是将在德克萨斯农工大学举行的一系列非常成功的年度国际会议中最新的一次，会议涵盖了弦理论的方方面面。一般来说，Strings会议的演讲者包括该领域的大多数领军人物。NSF对这次会议的支持将使年轻的研究人员(研究生和博士后研究员)能够以较低的费用参加这次会议。这将使他们能够跟上这一领域的最新发展，并向更多的资深和初级同龄人宣传他们自己正在做的工作。

Over the past two decades, string theory has come to play a leading role within the field of theoretical high-energy physics. It has not only provided many new insights concerning the possibilities for physics at the highest energy scales, but also led to new, deeper understandings of gauge theory, gravity, and even condensed-matter physics and nuclear (heavy-ion) physics. This award provides support for Strings 2010, the latest in a series of highly successful annual international conferences covering all aspects of string theory, to be held at Texas A&M University. In general, speakers at the Strings conferences include most of the leading figures of the field. NSF support of this conference will enable young researchers (graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) to attend this conference at reduced expense. This will enable them to keep abreast of current developments in the field, and to publicize the work that they themselves are doing to a larger audience of their peers, both senior and junior.