The 2011 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists

这项NSF拨款将支持2011年全国黑人物理学家协会（NSBP）和全国西班牙裔物理学家协会（NSHP）联合年会的大部分费用，这些费用未包括在项目收入中。在科学领域，尤其是广义的物理领域，少数族裔的代表性非常低。总体目标是通过为他们提供参与友好和支持的会议环境的机会，将前沿研究与广泛的专业发展计划相结合，增加物理学和密切相关领域毕业的学生人数。我们估计有600名与会者，其中300名是学生，由于会议是由NSBP和NSHP组织的，并向其成员做了大量宣传，他们将主要是少数民族。会议将为与会者提供广泛的机会与同行交流，不仅交流科学知识，而且交流在物理学专业取得成功所需的隐性知识。我们的目标是使会议于2011年4月举行，地点将由合理的酒店费用和靠近一个重要的科学实验室决定。

This NSF grant will support a majority of costs not covered by program income for the 2011 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP). Minorities are very under-represented in the sciences and particularly in the field of physics, broadly defined. The overarching goal is to increase the number of students who graduate in physics and closely related fields by providing them with an opportunity to participate in a friendly and supportive Conference environment that combines forefront research with an extensive program of professional development. We estimate six hundred participants, three hundred of whom will be students, who, because the Conference is organized by NSBP and NSHP and heavily advertised to their membership, will be predominantly minorities. The Conference will offer extensive opportunities for the attendees to network with their peers to exchange not only scientific knowledge but also the tacit knowledge needed to succeed in the profession of physics. Our target is for the Conference to take place in April 2011, in a venue that will be determined by reasonable hotel cost and proximity to a significant scientific laboratory.