Annual Phenomenology Symposia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Springs 2011 and 2012

该奖项为PHENO 2010、PHENO 2011和PHENO 2012会议提供资金，该会议将于每年5月在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校举行。这些一年一度的PHENO会议将在很大程度上致力于研究瑞士日内瓦欧洲粒子物理实验室的大型强子对撞机（LHC）可能产生的物理结果，以及这些实验结果与其他基于对撞机和非对撞机的基本粒子物理、天体物理学和宇宙学实验结果之间的联系。经过近二十年的规划和建设，LHC现在是世界上能量最高的对撞机，这台机器的结果有望为在TeV尺度上面临的一些最紧迫的粒子物理学问题提供重要的见解。NSF对这次会议的支持也是至关重要的，以使年轻的物理学家能够参加Pheno专题讨论会。事实上，PHENO会议是美国最大的高能物理专业学生会议。大多数学生参与者也在平行会议上展示他们的研究工作，为他们提供了与同行见面的宝贵机会，获得了宝贵的研究反馈，并与资深物理学家建立了联系。为了鼓励年轻的参与者参加，PHENO会议的传统是研究生可以免费参加PHENO会议，而博士后的会议费用比更资深的参与者要低。因此，许多物理学家在PHENO会议上发表了他们的第一次会议演讲。

This award provides funding for the PHENO 2010, PHENO 2011, and PHENO 2012 conferences to be held each May at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. These annual PHENO conferences will be devoted, in large part, to studying the physics that might emerge from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland, and the connections between these experimental results and results from other collider- and non-collider-based experiments in both elementary particle physics and astrophysics and cosmology. After nearly twenty years of plannning and construction, the LHC is now the highest-energy collider in the world, and results from this machine are expected to provide important insight into some of the most pressing questions that confront particle physics at the TeV scale. NSF support for this conference is also vital in order to enable young physicists to attend the Pheno Symposia. Indeed, the PHENO Conferences are nothing less than the largest professional student meetings in high-energy physics in the United States. Most of the student participants also present their research work in the parallel sessions, providing them with valuable opportunities to meet their peers, gain valuable research feedback, and develop contacts with senior physicists. To encourage young participants to attend, the tradition of the PHENO conferences is that graduate students can attend the PHENO Conferences free of charge, and postdocs have a reduced conference fee compared to more senior participants. As a result, many physicists gave their first conference talk at a PHENO Conference.