Travel Support for U.S. Graduate Students and Postdocs in the 2nd BNU International Summer School on Quantum Gravity, August 13-18, 2012

这笔赠款将为五名美国学生或博士后参加第二届北京师范大学国际量子引力学院提供部分旅费，该学院将于2012年8月13日至8月18日举行。学生将由该领域的领先专家组成的委员会挑选。这些资金将同时帮助这些学生和博士后有选择地参加第29届国际物理群论方法研讨会(GROUP29)，该研讨会将于8月20日至26日在离北京不远的南开大学陈氏数学研究所举行，其中将有一个循环量子引力环节。这项提议的广泛影响将体现在人力资源的准备方面。北京师范大学学院教授的大部分课程都不是在美国大学教授的。参加这种类型的会议是为该领域的新一代美国研究人员做准备的一个重要事件。

This grant will provide partial travel support for five U.S. students or post-docs to attend the 2nd Beijing Normal University International School of Quantum Gravity, to take place from August 13th to August 18th, 2012. The students will be selected by a committee of leading experts in the field. These funds will simultaneously aide these students and post-docs to optionally attend the XXIX International Colloquium on Group-Theoretical Methods in Physics (GROUP29), which will have a loop quantum gravity session, and which will be held from August 20th to August 26th at the Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, not far from Beijing. The broad impact of this proposal will be in the preparation of human resources. Most of the courses taught at the BNU school are not taught at U.S. universities. Attendance at this type of conference is a formative event in the preparation of the new generation of U.S. researchers in the field.