PASI2012 - Exploring the Terascale and Beyond; Buenos Aires, Argentina; March 5-16, 2012

泛美高级研究院(PASI)奖由美国国家科学基金会和美国能源部(DOE)共同支持，将于2012年3月5日至16日在阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯的布宜诺斯艾利斯大学(UBA)举行。该研究所由威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的Marleigh Sheaff博士、芝加哥大学的Marcela Carena博士和密歇根大学的Daniel Chung博士组织，将专注于Terascale的探索，涵盖粒子物理、宇宙学和天体物理等主题。该项目将为学生提供一个广泛的图景，了解粒子物理学必须沿着这三个前沿发展，以解决我们宇宙中的一些关键谜团，例如：质量的起源，暗物质的性质，物质-反物质不对称的产生，以及可能的力的统一。这三个边界被确定为能量边界、强度边界和宇宙边界。PASI还将探索当前和计划中的未来物理学实验将如何促进我们对这些前沿的理解。美国年轻物理学家以及来自美洲其他一些国家的同行的参与将为他们在职业生涯早期提供国际经验。这将帮助他们为大型全球合作做好准备，这些合作涉及来自非常不同背景的人，现在这些领域已经变得频繁。组织者将开发和广泛宣传网页，向更广泛的社区传播研究所提供的材料。

1123982SheaffThis Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place March 5-16, 2012 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Organized by Dr. Marleigh Sheaff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Marcela Carena of the University of Chicago, and Dr. Daniel Chung of the University of Michigan, the institute will focus on the exploration of the Terascale, covering topics in particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics. The program will give students a broad picture of the three frontiers along which particle physics must advance to solve some of the crucial mysteries of our universe such as: the origin of mass, the nature of the dark matter, the generation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the possible unification of forces. The three frontiers have been identified as the Energy Frontier, the Intensity Frontier and the Cosmic Frontier. The PASI will also explore how current and planned future experiments in physics will advance our understanding of these frontiers.Participation of young U.S. physicists along with their peers from a number of other countries in the Americas will provide them with international experience early-on in their careers. This will help them prepare for the large global collaborations that involve people from very diverse backgrounds, which have now become frequent in these areas. The organizers will develop and widely advertise web pages to disseminate the materials presented at the institute to the wider community.