US-Latin American quantum gravity network workshop; July 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina

该奖项支持经验丰富和年轻的美国研究人员参加由路易斯安那州立大学豪尔赫·普林和拉丁美洲量子引力网络联合举办的美国-拉丁美洲量子重力研讨会。它将于2010年7月28日至31日在阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯举行。该研讨会将与布宜诺斯艾利斯南锥体研讨会的第五期量子引力课程同时举行，前一周将在阿根廷的拉普拉塔举办量子重力课程。因此，美国的与会者也将能够参加这些活动。这次会议将允许研究生、博士后研究员和教职员工进行互动，并分享有关量子力学规则在引力场中应用的最新研究信息。量子力学规则描述了微观世界。个人互动预计将刺激人际关系和合作研究活动，这将促进参与者的职业生涯。这一领域的研究目标之一是了解在创造宇宙的大爆炸过程之后不久发生了什么，以及黑洞内部发生了什么。该奖项由数学和物理科学局的物理司和国际科学和工程办公室共同资助。

This award supports the participation of a mixture of experienced and young US researchers in a US-Latin American workshop on quantum gravity co-organized by the Jorge Pullin of Louisiana State University and the Latin American Quantum Gravity Network. It will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 28-31, 2010. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Fifth Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone workshop in Buenos Aires, and a preceding school on quantum gravity will take place in La Plata, Argentina, the week before. Thus, U.S. attendees will be able to participate in those events as well.This meeting will allow graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty to interact and to share information about current research on the application of the rules of quantum mechanics, which describe the microscopic world, to the gravitational field. The personal interactions are expected to stimulate relationships and collaborative research activities that will enhance the careers of the participants. Among the objectives of study in this field is to understand what happened shortly after the Big Bang process that created the universe and what takes place inside black holes. The award is co-funded by the Physics Division in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the Office of International Science and Engineering.