Conference: Loops '24 Conference

该奖项支持循环'24会议的组织。循环系列会议是致力于循环量子引力和其他背景独立的量子引力方法领域的主要国际系列。它大约每两年举行一次，每次由不同的学术机构主办。2024年，主办机构将是佛罗里达大西洋大学（FAU）。Loops '24会议将世界上最好的研究背景独立量子引力的研究人员聚集在一起，就该领域最紧迫的开放问题进行对话和分享知识，激发解决这些问题的新思路。会议有可能澄清有关量子黑洞，它们的最终状态，大爆炸物理学和之前的物理学，时空的量子性质，量子引力对量子基础的影响等问题。它也有可能澄清相应的观测结果，与当前和未来的NASA和ESA任务以及其他实验的结果进行比较。会议还为学生和博士后提供了展示他们的工作和想法的论坛，提供了一个独特的机会来提高他们的演讲技巧并增加他们的专业网络。Loops '24等会议对于培养该领域的下一代STEM专业人员至关重要。该奖项反映了NSF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 organization of the Loops '24 conference. The Loops series of conferences is the main international series devoted to the field of Loop Quantum Gravity and other background-independent approaches to Quantum Gravity. It takes place approximately every two years, each time hosted by a different academic institution. In 2024, the hosting institution will be Florida Atlantic University (FAU). The Loops '24 conference brings the best researchers in the world working on background-independent quantum gravity together to dialogue and share knowledge on the most pressing open issues in the field, stimulating new ideas to solve them. The conference has the potential to clarify issues regarding quantum black holes, their endstates, the physics at the Big Bang and what came before, the quantum nature of space-time, and the implications of quantum gravity for quantum foundations, among many other questions of fundamental interest. It also has the potential to clarify corresponding observational consequences, to be compared with results from current and future NASA and ESA missions as well as other experiments.The conference also offers students and postdocs the forum to showcase their work and ideas, providing a unique opportunity to enhance their presentation skills and increase their professional networks. Conferences such as Loops '24 are essential to the training of the next generation of STEM professionals in the field.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.