Support for US Researchers to Attend the US-Latin American Quantum Gravity Network Workshop

该奖项支持美国经验丰富的年轻研究人员参加美国-拉丁美洲量子引力研讨会。该研讨会将由PI和拉丁美洲量子重力网络在乌拉圭共同组织。它将与2017年4月南锥体研讨会的第六次量子引力一起举行。南锥体的量子引力讲习班由PI和Rodolfo Gambini教授在乌拉圭开始，并在NSF-INT的支持下成功地在阿根廷，智利和乌拉圭继续进行。这些研讨会催生了一个由拉丁美洲量子引力研究人员组成的非正式网络，该网络现在组织和管理会议。他们为年轻的研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，以满足他们的领域的世界领导人。该系列研讨会还旨在巩固正式的区域研究人员网络与美国科学家之间的联系，帮助网络中的研究人员与美国研究人员建立长期合作关系。本次研讨会将于2017年4月在乌拉圭蒙得维的亚举行，为期三天，邀请演讲者进行演讲。本次研讨会将于2017年10月在乌拉圭蒙得维的亚举行，旨在为美国青年科学家和学生提供一个与国际社会专家交流和分享知识的机会。在这次会议上，组织者试图增加一个国际组成部分的区域会议，有一天的重点是增加拉丁美洲研究人员在该地区和美国研究人员之间的合作，特别是那些在他们的职业生涯的开始。值得注意的是，拉丁美洲有着多年来为量子引力领域贡献宝贵研究人员的传统。组织者将资助三名美国高级研究人员和三名初级（格拉德生或博士后水平）美国研究人员参加研讨会的航空旅行。目前，量子引力是一个研究社区的各个子部门正在追求显着不同方法的领域。像这样的会议是一个独特的机会，可以广泛接触各种方法，并使各分领域之间能够相互交流。这三位高级研究员是Abhay Ashtekhar（宾夕法尼亚州立大学Eberly主席）、Andy Strominger（Gwill E.哈佛大学约克教授）和胡安·马尔达塞纳（普林斯顿高等研究院）。他们各自将指定一名青年研究员出席会议。

This award supports the participation of a mixture of experienced and young US researchers in a US-Latin American Workshop on quantum gravity. The workshop will be co-organized by the PI and the Latin American Quantum Gravity Network in Uruguay. It will be held in conjunction with the sixth Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone workshop in April 2017. The Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone Workshops were started by the PI and Prof. Rodolfo Gambini in Uruguay with NSF-INT support and have been successfully continued in Argentina, Chile and again in Uruguay. The workshops have spawned the creation of an informal network of Latin American researchers in quantum gravity that now organizes and manages the meetings. They provide a unique opportunity for young researchers to meet world leaders in their fields. The workshop series also seeks to consolidate ties between a formal regional network of researchers and US scientists, helping to establish long term collaborations between researchers in the network and US researchers. This workshop is also an exceptional opportunity for increasing the participation of underrepresented groups and for junior US scientists and students to meet and share knowledge with experts from the international community in a stimulating environment.The Workshop will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in April 2017, and it will consist of a three-day meeting with talks by invited speakers. In this meeting, the organizers seek to add an international component to the regional meeting by having one day focused on increasing cooperation between Latin American researchers in the area and US researchers, particularly those at the beginning of their careers. It is to be noted that Latin America has a tradition of contributing valuable researchers to the field of quantum gravity over the years. The organizers will fund the air travel of three senior US researchers and three junior (grad student or postdoc level) US researchers to attend the workshop. Quantum gravity at the moment is a field where significantly different approaches are being pursued by various subsectors of the research community. Meetings like this one are unique opportunities to provide a broad exposure to the various approaches and to allow cross-fertilization among the subfields. The three senior researchers are Abhay Ashtekhar (Eberly Chair at PennState), Andy Strominger (Gwill E. York Professor at Harvard) and Juan Maldacena (Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton). In turn each of them will designate a young researcher to attend the meeting.