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

该奖项支持一批美国初级科学家参加在阿根廷巴里洛什和智利瓦尔迪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。研讨会将允许美国科学家在国际环境下展示在美国所做的研究。这也将是与拉美初级人才建立网络并可能招聘他们的绝佳机会。拉丁美洲一直是美国研究企业在这一领域新的和多样化的人才的传统来源。该奖项资助经验丰富的和初级的美国研究人员参加2019年12月在阿根廷巴里洛什和智利瓦尔迪亚举行的第八届量子引力研讨会。南锥体中的量子重力讲习班由国际和平研究所和鲁道夫·甘比尼教授在乌拉圭国家科学基金会的支持下开始，并已在阿根廷、智利(与国家科学基金会PASI联合举办)和巴西成功继续举办。这些研讨会还催生了一个非正式的拉丁美洲量子引力研究人员网络，现在负责主持会议。它们为初级研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，让他们与各自领域的世界领导人见面。这个项目举办了一个有该领域几位领军人物参加的研讨会，产生了更广泛的影响：它试图让拉丁美洲的初级研究人员和学生与专家接触，而他们通常没有机会这样做。它还寻求巩固正式的地区性研究人员网络与美国科学家之间的联系。该项目的一个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的合作关系。该研讨会也是一个难得的机会，可以扩大未被充分代表的群体的参与，并让美国初级科学家和学生在一个刺激的环境中与国际社会的专家见面并分享知识。该奖项反映了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 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.