Participation of Young Scientists to the Workshop LoopFest XIII, City Tech, New York, June 2014

LoopFest是一系列始于2002年的研讨会，每年在美国各地的大学举行。这是一个大型会议，其目标是使与会者加快关于对撞机高精度强相互作用效应的最新发展。 虽然会议都在美国，但演讲者和参与者来自世界各地。科学组织委员会有几个核心成员。这些物理学家正在从事一项计划，以促进量子色动力学的研究和理解。量子色动力学（QCD）控制着基本粒子的强相互作用，它在高能下的研究越来越多地被基本粒子和核物理所分享。LoopFest研讨会的目的是协调以大型强子对撞机（LHC）和未来线性对撞机的高精度研究为重点的活动。大型强子对撞机将在未来几年内广泛研究希格斯玻色子，强相互作用效应为这项研究提供了最大的不确定性。有许多过程有许多循环，虚相互作用增加了过程的复杂性，有大量的传入和传出胶子，介导强相互作用的粒子。研讨会不仅研究这些，寻找新的计算方法，而且还研究如何最好地将新结果与实验者使用的事件发生器相结合。因此，虽然LoopFest的组织者都是理论家，但也有一些实验性的谈话，以促进两个社区之间的交流。组织者还确保与会的初级物理学家也有机会与高级物理学家就他们的研究进行密切互动。该奖项为学生提供支持前往2014年6月LoopFest会议和他们的一些费用。

LoopFest is a series of workshops begun in 2002 and held annually at various universities across the US. This is a large meeting whose goal is to bring participants up to speed on recent developments regarding high-precision strong interaction effects at colliders. Although the conferences are all in the US, speakers and participants come from all around the world. There are several core members of the scientific organizing committee. These physicists are engaged in a program to advance research in and understanding of quantum chromodynamics. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) governs the strong interactions of elementary particles, and its study at high energies is increasingly shared by both elementary particle and nuclear physics. The aim of the LoopFest workshops is to coordinate activities focused on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and on high precision research at a future linear collider. The LHC will be studying the Higgs boson extensively in the next few years, and strong interaction effects provide the biggest uncertainties in this study. There are many processes with a number of loops, virtual interactions that add to the complexity of the process, with a large number of incoming and outgoing gluons, particles that mediate the strong interaction. The workshops not only study these, looking at new computational approaches, but also study how to best interface the new results with event generators used by the experimenters. Thus, although the LoopFest organizers are all theorists, there are a number of experimental talks as well, in order to facilitate exchanges between the two communities. The organizers also ensure that junior physicists in attendance also have the opportunity to interact closely with the senior physicists about their research. This award provides support for students to travel to the 2014 LoopFest conference in June and for some of their expenses.