XXVIIth International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2019) and Pre-SUSY Training Workshop (Pre-SUSY 2019)

该奖项授予德克萨斯州A M大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校的Barbara Szczerbinska教授，以支持2019年的SUSY会议和2019年的SUSY学前教育。 粒子物理学的标准模型成功地解释了几乎所有在高能对撞机实验中收集到的数据。 超对称性（SUSY）是标准模型最优雅的扩展之一，允许科学家解决标准模型未解决的许多理论问题。 这些包括理论中出现的某些质量尺度的起源和稳定性。 超对称性还预测了某些粒子的存在，这些粒子可能是宇宙中看不见的暗物质的理想候选者，世界各地的一些实验正在进行中。 超对称性还允许不同的基本力在高能量尺度下统一成一个单一的“大统一”力。 超对称性的实验正在大型强子对撞机（LHC）上进行。 超对称性在弦论和标准模型之外的许多其他物理学思想中也起着重要作用。 由于超对称性在现代粒子物理学中的核心重要性，年度超对称性会议在过去20年中已经发展成为主要的年度国际物理学会议，重点关注标准模型之外的物理学。因此，这些会议提供了一个独特的场所，不仅讨论超对称性的地位，而且还讨论各种主题，如粒子物理学和宇宙学之间的联系，超对称性及其替代品，希格斯粒子，中微子物理学，暗物质，天体粒子物理学，引力波和弦理论。 会议还包括讨论大型强子对撞机的结果，最近的中微子实验和观测，直接和间接的暗物质探测实验，引力波的探测，粒子对撞机的数据，以及宇宙微波背景和宇宙大尺度结构的测量。 此外，从今年开始，SUSY会议还将以原子/分子/光学（AMO）物理学和量子信息科学的高能物理与实验技术之间的联系为特色，从而增加会议的跨学科性。2019年5月20日至24日，德克萨斯州农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校（TAMU-CC）将举办第27届超对称性和基本相互作用统一国际会议（SUSY 2019）。 每年的超对称性会议通常每年都有大量的年轻博士后和学生参加，因此形成了一种传统，即每次超对称性会议之前都有一个“学校”或培训研讨会，致力于为这些未来的年轻研究人员提供背景，以充分利用会议的内容。以及教育他们在国家的最先进的方法的实验和理论高能物理。这一目标是通过一系列高水平的讲座和会谈，由著名的活跃的研究人员在高能物理领域实现的。 因此，在2019年超对称性大会之前，将在TAMU-CC校园举行为期四天的超对称性学前培训研讨会（2019年5月15日至18日）。对2019年超对称性大会和2019年超对称性学前教育的支持将产生更广泛的影响。会议和学前教育将帮助年轻科学家与理论和实验同事互动，从而扩大他们的粒子物理学知识。这些教育目标对于年轻科学家融入社区和保持该领域的活力非常重要。 因此，对这些活动的支持通过促进科学进步和美国下一代研究人员的培训来促进国家利益。 在规划这次会议的整个过程中，一直在努力确保各级发言者和与会者的多样化。 此外，将提供一个基金，以帮助支付来自代表性不足的机构的学生，以及代表性不足的少数民族和妇女的费用。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This grant award is made to Professor Barbara Szczerbinska at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, in support of the SUSY 2019 Conference and SUSY 2019 Pre-School. The Standard Model of particle physics successfully explains virtually all data which has ever been collected at high-energy collider experiments. Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of most elegant extensions of the Standard Model and allows scientists to address a number of theoretical issues left unresolved by the Standard Model. These include the origin and stability of certain mass scales which appear in the theory. SUSY also predicts the existence of certain particles which might serve as ideal candidates for the unseen dark matter of the universe, searches for which are ongoing in a number of experiments worldwide. SUSY also allows the different fundamental forces to be unified into a single "grand-unified" force at high energy scales. Searches for SUSY are ongoing at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). SUSY also plays a prominent role in string theory and in many other ideas for physics beyond the Standard Model. As a result of the central importance of supersymmetry in modern particle physics, the annual SUSY conferences have grown over the past 20 years to become the dominant annual international physics conferences focused on physics beyond the Standard Model. As such, these conferences provide a unique venue for discussions not only on the status of SUSY but also on diverse topics such as connections between particle physics and cosmology, supersymmetry and its alternatives, the Higgs particle, the physics of neutrinos, dark matter, astro-particle physics, gravitational waves, and string theory. The SUSY conferences also include discussions of results from the Large Hadron Collider, recent neutrino experiments and observations, direct and indirect dark-matter detection experiments, detection of gravitational waves, data from particle colliders, as well as measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure in the universe. Moreover, starting this year, the SUSY conferences will also be featuring connections between high-energy physics and experimental techniques from Atomic/Molecular/Optical (AMO) physics and Quantum Information Science, thereby increasing the interdisciplinarity of this conference.SUSY 2019 (the XXVIIth International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions) will be hosted by Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC), during May 20-24, 2019. The annual SUSY conferences are typically attended by large numbers of young postdocs and students each year, and as a result a tradition has developed wherein each SUSY conference is also preceded by a "school" or training workshop dedicated to providing these future young researchers the background to fully profit from the contents of the conference, as well as to educate them in state-of-the-art methods of experimental and theoretical high-energy physics. This objective is fulfilled through a series of high-level lectures and talks by well-known active researchers in the field of high-energy physics. Accordingly, the SUSY 2019 conference will be preceded by a four-day pre-SUSY training workshop which will take place on TAMU-CC campus during the week prior the SUSY 2019 conference (May 15-18, 2019).Support for the SUSY 2019 Conference and the SUSY 2019 pre-School will have significant broader impacts. Both the Conference and pre-School will help young scientists to interact with theoretical and experimental colleagues and thereby broaden their knowledge of particle physics. These educational goals are important to the integration of young scientists into the community, and to maintain the vibrancy of the field. As such, support for these events advances the national interest by promoting the progress of science and the training of the next generation of researchers in the United States. Throughout the planning for this conference, care has been taken to ensure a diverse set of speakers at all levels as well as a diverse set of conference participants. Moreover, a fund will be made available to help cover the expenses of students from underrepresented institutions, as well as underrepresented minorities and women.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.