Support for US Participants in the Workshop Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone.

该奖项支持一组年轻的美国科学家参加在阿根廷巴里洛切和智利瓦尔迪维亚与拉丁美洲量子引力研究网络共同举办的“南锥体量子引力”研讨会。该研讨会将使美国科学家能够在国际环境中展示美国所做的研究。这也将是一个与拉丁美洲年轻人才建立联系和潜在招募的绝佳机会。拉丁美洲一直是美国研究企业在该领域的新人才和多样化人才的传统来源。该奖项将资助经验丰富和资历较低的美国研究人员参加2019年12月在阿根廷巴里洛切和智利瓦尔迪维亚举行的南锥体第八届量子引力研讨会。南锥的量子引力研讨会是由PI和乌拉圭的Rodolfo Gambini教授在NSF的支持下开始的，并在阿根廷、智利（与NSF- pasi一起）和巴西成功地继续进行。这些研讨会还催生了拉丁美洲量子引力研究人员的非正式网络，现在由该网络主持会议。他们为初级研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，可以与各自领域的世界领袖见面。该项目举办了一个由该领域几位领军人物参与的研讨会，具有更广泛的影响：它旨在使拉丁美洲的初级研究人员和学生接触到专家，这是他们通常没有机会接触到的。它还寻求巩固一个正式的区域性研究人员网络与美国科学家之间的联系。该项目的目标是在网络中的研究人员和美国研究人员之间建立长期合作关系。这次研讨会也是一个难得的机会，可以扩大代表性不足群体的参与，并让美国青年科学家和学生在一个令人兴奋的环境中与国际社会的专家会面并分享知识。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 the participation of a group of junior US scientists in the "Quantum gravity in the Southern Cone" workshop with the Latin American Quantum Gravity Research Network in Bariloche, Argentina and Valdivia, Chile. The workshop will allow the US scientists to showcase the research done in the US in an international setting. It will also be a great opportunity to network with and potentially recruit junior Latin American talent. Latin America has been a traditional source of new and diverse talent for the US research enterprise in this area.The award funds a mixture of experienced and junior US researchers' participation in the eighth Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone workshop in Bariloche, Argentina and Valdivia, Chile in December 2019. The Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone Workshops were started by the PI and Professor Rodolfo Gambini in Uruguay with NSF support and have been successfully continued in Argentina, Chile (there in conjunction with an NSF-PASI) and Brazil. The workshops have also spawned the creation of an informal network of Latinamerican researchers in quantum gravity that now runs the meetings. They provide a unique opportunity for junior researchers to meet world leaders in their fields. Having a workshop involving several of the leading figures in the field, this project has a broader impact: it seeks to bring junior researchers and students in Latin America into contact with the experts, something they usually do not have the chance to do. It also seeks to consolidate ties between a formal regional network of researchers and US scientists. A goal of this project is to establish long term collaborations between researchers in the network and US researchers. This workshop is also an exceptional opportunity for broadening 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.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.