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

该基金将为5名赴美赴美参加2012年8月13日至8月18日北京师范大学第二国际量子引力学院的美国学生或博士后提供部分旅费支持。学生将由该领域的主要专家组成的委员会选出。这些资金将同时资助这些学生和博士后选择性参加将于8月20日至8月26日在北京附近的南开大学陈恩来数学研究所举行的第29届国际物理群论方法学术研讨会（GROUP29），该研讨会将有一个环量子引力会议。这项建议将在人力资源编制方面产生广泛影响。BNU学校教授的大部分课程都不是美国大学教授的。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形成性事件。

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.