Theoretical Advanced Study Institute

这笔赠款为科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的理论高级研究所(TASI)提供资金。TASI是一个为期一个月的暑期研究所，面向在理论高能物理领域工作的高级研究生，每年6月举行。TASI的目的是让高级研究生接触到比他们平时在本国机构中所经历的更广泛的想法和主题，同时致力于他们的论文主题。自1984年以来，TASI每年夏天都会举办，自1989年以来一直在博尔德校园举行。一个分布在全国各地的科学咨询委员会选择一个主题，并招募科学组织者，他们安排当年的项目。在典型的一年中，大约60名初级参与者听取了来自大约20名尖端知名研究人员的大约60场演讲。TASI是世界上同类项目中最成功的，TASI过去的学生都在主要的研究机构(高能物理领域和外部)找到。因此，TASI通过促进科学进步和初级科学家的培训来促进国家利益。与TASI相关的更广泛的影响包括TASI的视频、课堂讲稿和书面记录，所有这些都更广泛地为高能物理界和其他领域的其他成员提供了同样的好处。公开讲座也是TASI年度节目的一部分，吸引了社区的大量观众。科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的Thomas DeGrand教授负责TASI的基础设施：他负责TASI的年度运营，维护网站，制作和分发海报，收集申请，协助录取过程，为初级和高级参与者安排住房，管理讲座场地，记录演讲，并分配参与者支持费用。这笔为期五年的赠款为TASI在2018-2022年期间的业务提供支持。在此期间，预计对TASI当地业务的监督将越来越多地转向联合PI的奥利弗·德·沃尔夫和伊桑·尼尔，他们都是科罗拉多大学的教职员工。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant provides funding for the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI) at the University of Colorado, Boulder CO.TASI is a one-month long Summer Institute for advanced graduate students working in the field of theoretical high-energy physics, held every June. The aim of TASI is to expose advanced graduate students to a much broader range of ideas and topics than they normally experience in their home institutions while working on their dissertation topics. TASI has been held every summer since 1984, and has been held on the Boulder campus since 1989. A nationally-distributed Scientific Advisory Board selects a topic and recruits scientific organizers, who arrange the program for that year. In a typical year about sixty junior participants hear approximately sixty presentations from approximately twenty cutting-edge established researchers. TASI is the most successful program of its kind in the world, and past students of TASI are found at major research institutions (both in and outside high-energy physics). As such, TASI advances the national interest by promoting the progress of science and the training of junior scientists. Further broader impacts associated with TASI include the TASI videos, lecture notes, and written proceedings, all of which provide the same benefits more broadly to other members of the high-energy physics community and beyond. A Public Lecture is also part of TASI's annual program, and attracts a large audience from the community. Professor Thomas DeGrand of the University of Colorado at Boulder is responsible for TASI's infrastructure: he oversees annual TASI operations, maintains the web site, makes and distributes the poster, collects applications, assists in the admission process, organizes housing for junior and senior participants, takes care of the lecture venue, records the presentations, and allocates participant support costs. This five-year grant provides support for TASI operations during the period 2018-2022, inclusive. During this period it is expected that oversight of TASI local operations will increasingly shift towards the co-PI's Oliver de Wolfe and Ethan Neil, each of whom is also a faculty member at the University of Colorado.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.