Hot Quarks 2018: A Workshop on The Physics of Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions for Young Scientists Texel Island, Netherlands Sept. 9-15, 2018.

该奖项支持早期职业科学家参加并参加“热夸克2018：青年科学家超相对论核-核碰撞物理学研讨会”。量子色动力学预测的夸克胶子等离子体，已经在布鲁克海文国家实验室和欧洲核子研究中心超级质子同步加速器的测量中被观察到，但是完全理解这种物质集体状态的本质仍然是难以捉摸的。随着新的测量方法和理论的发展，这一领域的科学范围大大扩大了。本次研讨会的讨论将包括基本粒子物理学、核物理学、QCD热力学、流体动力学、非平衡输运理论以及AdS/CFT技术在重离子碰撞现象学中的应用等概念的跨学科结合。本次研讨会的目标是加强年轻成员之间的科学交流，特别是研究生，博士后和初级教师之间的实验和理论交流。对于早期职业科学家来说，这是一个交流和接触科学的机会，这是他们在大型会议上可能得不到的。组织者有广泛招募人员以扩大代表性不足的群体参与核科学的历史。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports early career scientists to attend and participate in the "Hot Quarks 2018: A Workshop on the Physics of Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions for Young Scientists." The quark gluon plasma, predicted by Quantum Chromo-Dynamics, has been observed through measurements at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron, but fully understanding the nature of this collective state of matter remains elusive. The scientific scope of this field has broadened significantly with new measurements and theoretical developments. The discussions in this workshop will include an interdisciplinary combination of concepts from elementary-particle physics, nuclear physics, QCD thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, non-equilibrium transport theory and the application of AdS/CFT techniques to the phenomenology of heavy-ions collisions.The goal of this workshop is to enhance the scientific communication among the younger members, particularly graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty, both from experiment and theory. For early career scientists, this represents an opportunity for exchange and exposure to science that that they might not have in one of the major big conferences. The organizers have a history of recruiting widely to broaden the participation of under-represented groups in nuclear science.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.