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

该奖项支持有经验和年轻的美国研究人员参加美国-拉丁美洲量子引力研讨会。该讲习班将由PI和乌拉圭的拉丁美洲量子引力网络共同组织。它将与2017年4月在南锥体举行的第六届量子引力研讨会一起举行。南锥的量子引力研讨会是由PI和乌拉圭的Rodolfo Gambini教授在NSF-INT的支持下开始的，并在阿根廷、智利和乌拉圭成功地继续进行。这些研讨会催生了拉丁美洲量子引力研究人员的非正式网络，现在该网络负责组织和管理这些会议。他们为年轻的研究人员提供了一个与各自领域的世界领袖见面的独特机会。该系列研讨会还寻求巩固一个正式的区域性科学家网络和美国科学家之间的联系，帮助建立该网络中的科学家和美国科学家之间的长期合作。这次研讨会也是一个难得的机会，可以增加代表性不足的群体的参与，也可以让美国青年科学家和学生在一个令人兴奋的环境中与国际社会的专家会面并分享知识。讲习班将于2017年4月在乌拉圭蒙得维的亚举行，包括为期三天的会议和特邀发言者的会谈。在这次会议上，组织者试图通过有一天的时间专注于增加该领域的拉丁美洲研究人员与美国研究人员之间的合作，特别是那些刚刚开始其职业生涯的研究人员，为区域会议增加一个国际组成部分。值得注意的是，拉丁美洲多年来一直有向量子引力领域贡献有价值的研究人员的传统。主办方将资助三名美国高级研究人员和三名美国初级研究人员（研究生或博士后水平）参加研讨会的机票。目前，量子引力是一个研究领域，不同的分支部门正在追求截然不同的方法。像这样的会议是提供广泛接触各种方法的独特机会，并允许子领域之间的交叉施肥。三位资深研究员分别是Abhay Ashtekhar（宾夕法尼亚州立大学埃伯利主席）、Andy Strominger（哈佛大学约克大学教授）和Juan Maldacena（普林斯顿大学高级研究所）。他们将轮流指定一名年轻研究员参加会议。

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.