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

该奖项支持一组美国初级科学家参加在阿根廷巴里洛切和智利瓦尔迪维亚举行的拉丁美洲量子引力研究网络的“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中展示在美国进行的研究。这也将是一个很好的机会，网络和潜在的招聘初级拉丁美洲人才。拉丁美洲一直是美国在这一领域的研究企业的新型和多样化人才的传统来源。该奖项资助经验丰富的美国研究人员和初级美国研究人员参加2019年12月在阿根廷巴里洛切和智利瓦尔迪维亚举行的第八届南锥体量子引力研讨会。南锥体的量子引力讲习班由PI和Rodolfo Gambini教授在NSF的支持下在乌拉圭开始，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一个由拉丁美洲量子引力研究人员组成的非正式网络，该网络现在正在主持会议。他们为初级研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，以满足他们的领域的世界领导人。该项目举办了一个有该领域几位主要人物参加的讲习班，具有更广泛的影响：它力求使拉丁美洲的初级研究人员和学生与专家接触，这是他们通常没有机会做的事情。它还寻求巩固正式的区域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研究人员和美国研究人员之间建立长期合作。这个研讨会也是一个难得的机会，扩大了代表性不足的群体的参与，并为年轻的美国科学家和学生，以满足和分享知识与来自国际社会的专家在一个刺激的环境。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.