TAUP 2003, Eighth International Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics

美国国家科学基金会为支持天体物理学和地下物理学国际会议主题而申请的资金将用于支持两组参与者的本地和/或旅行费用。第一类是年轻的研究人员、研究生和博士后研究助理，他们缺乏足够的资源来参加会议。TAUP对于年轻研究人员来说是一个极好的会议，因为有机会在下午的研讨会上发言并参加海报会议。第二类是希望参加下午的外展和教育研讨会的参与者。几位关键人物——一位活跃在费米实验室外展的公立学校教师，一位大型科学中心的外展专家——只有在我们能支持他们的旅行的情况下才能参加。外联讲习班是TAUP的新项目，由Gran Sasso主任兼TAUP2001组委会主席Sandro Bettini建议。其目的是将来自国际地下实验室（以及其他实验室）的外展专家聚集在一起，讨论如何协调和加强外展计划。TAUP研讨会是由RobertaAntolini（格兰萨索外联主任），Len Bugel（参与费米实验室向公立学校的外联）和Evalyn Gates（阿德勒天文馆）组织的。贝蒂尼也将在他的全体会议发言中谈到这个问题。美国对这一话题非常感兴趣，因为拟议的《新中东和平条约》的外展计划。

The funds request from the NSF in support of the internationalconference Topics in Astrophysical and Underground Physics willbe used to support local and/or travel expenses for two groupsof participants. The first are young researchers, graduatestudents and postdoctoral research associates, who lack adequateresources to otherwise attend. TAUP is an excellent meeting for young researchers because of the opportunities to speakin afternoon workshops and to participate in the poster session.The second are participants wanting to participate in the afternoon workshop on outreach and education. Several key people -- a public school teacher active in FermiLab outreach,an outreach specialist for a major science center -- will beable to attend only if we can support their travel. The outreachworkshop is new to TAUP, suggested by Sandro Bettini, Directorof Gran Sasso and the chair of the TAUP2001 organizing committee.Its purpose is to bring together outreach specialists from international underground laboratories (as well as other laboratories) to discuss how outreach programs can be coordinatedand enhanced. The TAUP workshop is being organized by RobertaAntolini (Gran Sasso director of outreach), Len Bugel (involvedwith FermiLab outreach to public schools), and Evalyn Gates(with the Adler Planetarium). Bettini will also address thistopic in his plenary talk. There is keen US interest in thistopic because of outreach plans for the proposed NUSEL.