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

该奖项支持经验丰富和年轻的美国研究人员参加美国-拉丁美洲关于量子引力的研讨会。该讲习班将由国际和平研究所和乌拉圭的拉丁美洲量子引力网络联合举办。它将与2017年4月在南锥体工作坊举行的第六届量子引力联合举办。南锥体中的量子重力讲习班是由国际和平协会和鲁道夫·甘比尼教授在乌拉圭国家科学基金会的支持下开始的，并已在阿根廷、智利和乌拉圭成功地继续举办。这些研讨会催生了一个非正式的拉丁美洲量子引力研究人员网络，现在负责组织和管理这些会议。它们为年轻的研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，让他们与各自领域的世界领导人见面。研讨会系列还寻求巩固正式的地区性研究人员网络与美国科学家之间的联系，帮助该网络中的研究人员与美国研究人员建立长期合作关系。这次研讨会也是一个难得的机会，让更多代表不足的群体参加，让美国初级科学家和学生在一个刺激的环境中与国际社会的专家见面并分享知识。研讨会将于2017年4月在乌拉圭蒙得维的亚举行，包括一个为期三天的会议，邀请发言者发表演讲。在这次会议中，组织者寻求在地区会议中增加国际成分，用一天的时间专注于加强该地区拉美研究人员和美国研究人员之间的合作，特别是那些处于职业生涯初期的研究人员。值得注意的是，拉丁美洲有多年来为量子引力领域贡献宝贵研究人员的传统。组织者将资助三名高级美国研究人员和三名初级(研究生或博士后水平)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领域，研究界的各个部门都在追求着截然不同的方法。像这样的会议是一次独特的机会，可以广泛接触各种方法，并允许各分田之间进行交叉施肥。这三名高级研究人员是Abhay Ashtekhar(宾夕法尼亚州立大学Eberly主席)、Andy Strominger(哈佛大学Gwill E.York教授)和Juan Maldacena(普林斯顿高级研究所)。反过来，他们每人将指定一名年轻的研究人员参加会议。

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.