Support for the "Table Top Experiments with Skyscraper Reach" Workshop

该奖项将为“桌面实验与摩天大楼”研讨会提供支持。会议将于2017年8月9日至11日在麻省理工学院校园举行。这次会议的主要学术价值在于它有可能促进不同物理领域的合作。这次会议与美国国家科学基金会在发展多样化劳动力方面的利益一致。校园内的实验将为未被充分代表的少数民族（urm）和女性本科生提供实际的探测器经验。这些实验通常只有少量的合作成员，因此这样的研讨会对于广泛传播这些实验的计划和招募新的合作者尤为重要。参加会议的资金是针对初级科学家的，组织者将致力于性别平等，并将招募urm作为参与者。该奖项为参加研讨会的与会者提供旅费，该研讨会将汇集科学家，讨论大约20项新实验，这些实验可以在20名以下合作者和少量资金的情况下进行。这些实验涵盖了核物理、粒子物理和原子物理等一系列技术，并代表了NSF物理部的各种项目。通过将专家聚集在一起，促进独特的研究项目集合，使用各种各样的实验技术，希望形成一个可以交流思想和形成合作的社区。

This award will provide support for the "Table Top Experiments with Skyscraper Reach" workshop. It will be held August 9-11, 2017 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. The primary intellectual merit of the conference is in its potential to catalyze collaboration across diverse physics fields.This conference is aligned with NSF interests in developing a diverse workforce. On-campus experiments will give under-represented minorities (URMs) and women who are undergraduates hands-on detector experience. These experiments usually have small numbers of collaboration members, hence workshops such as this are particularly important for broadly disseminating the plans for such experiments and recruiting new collaborators. The funding to attend the conference is targeted at junior scientists and the organizers will aim for gender equity and will recruit URMs as participants.This award provides funds to support travel for attendees to a workshop that will bring together scientists to discuss about 20 new experiments that can be performed with under 20 collaborators and modest funding. Such experiments span a range of techniques from nuclear, particle, and atomic physics, and represent a variety of programs within the NSF physics division. By bringing together experts promoting a unique collection of research programs, using a wide variety of experimental techniques, it is hoped to form a community where ideas can be exchanged and collaborations can be formed.