Support for the "Table Top Experiments with Skyscraper Reach" Workshop

该奖项将为“摩天大楼延伸的桌面实验”研讨会提供支持。它将于2017年8月9日至11日在马萨诸塞州理工学院校园举行。会议的主要智力价值在于其促进不同物理领域合作的潜力。本次会议与NSF发展多元化劳动力的利益一致。校园实验将为代表性不足的少数民族（URM）和女大学生提供实际操作探测器的经验。这些实验通常只有少数合作成员，因此像这样的研讨会对于广泛传播此类实验的计划和招募新的合作者特别重要。参加会议的资金针对年轻科学家，组织者将以性别平等为目标，并将招募URM作为参与者。该奖项提供资金，以支持与会者参加研讨会，该研讨会将汇集科学家，讨论大约20个新实验，这些实验可以在20名合作者和适度资金的情况下进行。这些实验涵盖了核、粒子和原子物理学的一系列技术，代表了NSF物理部门的各种计划。通过汇集专家，促进一个独特的研究项目的集合，使用各种各样的实验技术，希望形成一个社区，在那里可以交换想法，可以形成合作。

This award will provide support for the "Table Top Experiments with Skyscraper Reach" workshop. It will be held August 9-11, 2017 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. The primary intellectual merit of the conference is in its potential to catalyze collaboration across diverse physics fields.This conference is aligned with NSF interests in developing a diverse workforce. On-campus experiments will give under-represented minorities (URMs) and women who are undergraduates hands-on detector experience. These experiments usually have small numbers of collaboration members, hence workshops such as this are particularly important for broadly disseminating the plans for such experiments and recruiting new collaborators. The funding to attend the conference is targeted at junior scientists and the organizers will aim for gender equity and will recruit URMs as participants.This award provides funds to support travel for attendees to a workshop that will bring together scientists to discuss about 20 new experiments that can be performed with under 20 collaborators and modest funding. Such experiments span a range of techniques from nuclear, particle, and atomic physics, and represent a variety of programs within the NSF physics division. By bringing together experts promoting a unique collection of research programs, using a wide variety of experimental techniques, it is hoped to form a community where ideas can be exchanged and collaborations can be formed.