String Phenomenology 2017

该基金由弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学的James Gray教授指导，为将于2017年7月3日至7日在美国弗吉尼亚州布莱克斯堡的弗吉尼亚理工学院举行的“弦现象学2017：第16届弦现象学年会”会议提供部分支持。自2002年在牛津大学举办以来，一年一度的弦现象学会议已成为弦现象学子领域的旗舰年度会议。弦理论旨在描述物质的基本组成部分的本质以及它们在最高能量下的相互作用，而弦现象学旨在发展弦理论与传统粒子物理学、天体物理学和宇宙学之间的联系。因此，这些会议吸引了代表不同国际社会的物理学家和数学家，并提供了一个场所，他们可以讨论和介绍这个令人兴奋的跨学科领域的最新发展和挑战。鉴于日内瓦欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）的大型强子对撞机（Large Hadron Collider）、激光干涉仪引力波天文台（Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory， LIGO）和暗能量调查（Dark Energy Survey， DES）最近取得的重要实验结果，以及数学文献中大量的新结果，这个系列会议的第十六次迭代将特别重要和及时。因此，通过促进美国的基础科学，支持这一系列会议符合国家利益。预计这笔赠款还将产生更广泛的重大影响。这些会议汇集了来自不同机构和背景的有才华的研究人员，并特别努力将初级研究人员和代表性不足的群体成员的工作纳入其中。

This grant, under the direction of Professor James Gray at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, provides partial support for the conference "String Phenomenology 2017: The Sixteenth Annual Meeting on String Phenomenology", which will be held at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA on July 3rd-7th, 2017. Since their inception at the University of Oxford in 2002, the annual String Phenomenology conferences have become the flagship annual meeting for the subfield of string phenomenology. String theory aims to describe the nature of the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions at the very highest energies, and string phenomenology aims to develop connections between the ideas of string theory and those of more traditional particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. As such, these conferences attract physicists and mathematicians representing a diverse international community and provide a venue in which they can discuss and present recent developments and challenges in this exciting interdisciplinary field. The sixteenth iteration of this conference series will be particularly important and timely, given recent important experimental results from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), and from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), as well as a plethora of new results from the mathematical literature. As such, support for this series of meetings serves the national interest by promoting basic science in the United States. This grant is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts. These conferences bring together talented researchers from a diverse range of institutions and backgrounds, and special effort is made to incorporate the work of junior researchers and members of under-represented groups.