WIN2017 at the University of California, Irvine

该基金由加州大学欧文分校的陈慕春教授主持，为WIN2017：第26届弱相互作用和中微子国际研讨会提供部分资助。自1973年成立以来，WIN研讨会已成为中微子物理领域一年两次的重要国际会议。中微子是亚原子粒子，非常轻，相互作用很弱。 因此，它们在传统的基本粒子物理学以及天体物理学和早期宇宙学中都发挥着关键作用。 虽然最初的重点是中微子物理和弱相互作用，但这些两年一度的研讨会的范围近年来已经变得更加广泛，现在包括风味物理（传统粒子物理学中一个鲜为人知的领域）和天体粒子物理学。 WIN 2017将在一个特别重要的时刻举行，当时全球主要的中微子实验正在加紧运作。 这些实验将开启中微子领域的详细研究，并被广泛预期将产生关于自然世界的基本组成部分及其所经历的力量的深刻的新结果。 因此，这笔赠款通过促进科学在其最基本的方向之一的进步来促进国家利益： 发现和理解新的物理定律。 WIN 2017将是自2003年以来在美国举行的第一次WIN会议，也将是美国WIN会议的最后一次机会，直到2021年。 申请的资金将有助于培训初级研究人员，使他们能够参与，获得宝贵的经验，展示他们的研究成果，并提高他们在更大的科学界的知名度。

This grant, under the direction of Professor Mu-Chun Chen of the University of California, Irvine, provides partial support for WIN2017: The 26th International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos.Since their inception in 1973, the WIN workshops have become the major biannual international meetings in the field of neutrino physics. Neutrinos are subatomic particles which are extremely light and interact only weakly. As such, they play critical roles both in traditional elementary particle physics as well as astrophysics and early-universe cosmology. Although originally focused on neutrino physics and weak interactions, the scope of these biannual workshops has become much broader in recent years and now includes flavor physics (a poorly understood area within traditional particle physics) and astro-particle physics. WIN 2017 will take place at an especially important time, when major neutrino experiments worldwide are ramping up their operations. These experiments will open up the neutrino sector for detailed study, and are widely anticipated to yield profound new results concerning the fundamental building blocks of the natural world and the forces they experience. Thus, this grant advances the national interest by promoting the progress of science in one of its most fundamental directions: the discovery and understanding of new physical law. WIN 2017 will be the first WIN meeting held in the United States since 2003, and will be the last opportunity for an American WIN meeting until 2021. The requested funds will contribute to the training of junior researchers by allowing them to participate, gain valuable experience, present their research results, and boost their visibility within the larger scientific community.