U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research: Quantum Gravity, Supersymmetry and Black Holes

这笔美国-墨西哥奖将支持宾夕法尼亚州立大学的Abhay Ashtekar教授、Jorge Pullin教授和Pablo Laguna教授与墨西哥国立自治大学（UNAM）核科学研究所（ICN）的Michael Ryan教授领导的四家墨西哥机构的一组研究人员之间的研究合作。参与研究合作的其他墨西哥机构包括瓜纳华托大学的Fisica研究所、Avanzados研究中心（CINVESTAV）和大都会自治大学。研究人员建议涵盖广泛的主题，其中包括：黑洞演化和结构，数值相对论，非均匀宇宙学模型，标准重力，新变量，环和超重力。该项目将有助于巩固两国顶尖研究人员之间的几项独立合作。它有可能增加我们对黑洞的理解，包括它们的形成和动力学，以及在数值相对论和黑洞碰撞的数值分析方面做出重要贡献。＊＊＊

9722514 Ashtekar This U.S.-Mexico award will support a research collaboration between Prof. Abhay Ashtekar, Prof. Jorge Pullin, and Prof. Pablo Laguna of Penn State University and a group of researchers at four Mexican institutions, headed by Prof. Michael Ryan of the Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares (ICN) of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Other Mexican institutions involved in the research collaboration are the Instituto de Fisica of the Universidad de Guanajuato, the Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), and the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana. The researchers propose to cover a broad range of topics, among them: black hole evolution and structure, numerical relativity, inhomogeneous cosmological models, canonical gravity, new variables, loops, and supergravity. The project will serve to consolidate several separate collaborations between top researchers in both countries. It has the potential to increase our understanding of black holes, both their formation and their dynamics, as well as making important contributions in numerical relativity and the numerical analysis of black hole collisions. ***