Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI): Beyond the Standard Model in Cosmology, Astroparticle and Particle Physics; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; October 23-November 8, 2006

由美国国家科学基金会和美国能源部共同支持的泛美高级研究所将于2006年10月23日至11月8日在墨西哥的瓦拉尔塔港举行，主题是“超越宇宙学、天体粒子和粒子物理学中的标准模型”。该研究所由威斯康星州大学的Marleigh Sheaff博士组织，将有大约31名来自美国和拉丁美洲的参与者，包括研究生和初级和成熟的研究人员，以及大约12名讲师（国际公认的科学家，活跃在该领域）。 活动将包括辅导讲座，高级主题演讲，圆桌讨论和海报会议的组合，为参与者提供这一研究领域的最新回顾。 一个主要的目标是为学生参与者注入兴奋，就在前面的加速器能量接近那些迄今为止只在早期宇宙中看到的。广泛的应用程序和材料将赋予该研究所重要的跨学科性质，并应促进新思想的交叉施肥，以推进该领域，并最终增加拉丁美洲初级和高级研究人员与美国同行之间的关系。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI), jointly supported by the NSF and Department of Energy (DOE), will take place in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico from October 23 to November 8, 2006 on the topic of "Beyond the Standard Model (SM) in Cosmology, Astroparticle and Particle Physics". Organized by Dr. Marleigh Sheaff of the University of Wisconsin, the institute will involve approximately 31 participants from the United States and Latin America including graduate students and junior and established investigators, and about 12 instructors (internationally recognized scientists, active in the field). The activities will consist of a combination of tutorial lectures, advanced-topic presentations, round table discussions, and poster sessions, with the goal of providing the participants with an up-to-date review of this field of research. A primary goal is to infuse the student participants with the excitement that lies just ahead as accelerator energies approach those heretofore seen only in the early universe. The wide range of applications and materials will impart a significant interdisciplinary nature to the Institute, and should foster the cross-fertilization of new ideas to advance the field and, ultimately, increase relations between Latin American junior and senior investigators and their counterparts in the U.S.