UCLA Dark Matter Advanced Training Institute

该奖项将为大约30名初级研究人员提供为期三天的高级培训学院（ATI）的支持，这些研究人员都已经从事来自不同背景和子领域的暗物质研究。该研究所将于2018年2月18日至20日举行，紧接着为期三天的国际会议“宇宙中暗物质和暗能量的来源和探测”，该会议将于2018年2月21日至23日在加州大学洛杉矶分校校园举行。组织者将特别注意学生和讲师的多样性，特别是女性和其他代表性不足的群体的参与。UCLA ATI完全致力于暗物质问题，将大大增加美国暗物质问题的初级研究人员从每个子领域的专家那里获得不同子领域前沿研究问题的高水平培训的机会。寻找暗物质是一项真正的跨学科事业，涉及实验室实验，天体物理学和宇宙学观测，结合宇宙结构形成的模拟，在加速器（如LHC）和粒子物理学理论上的搜索。ATI将涵盖这些领域的各种不同主题，突出最有趣的进展。该奖项将为参与加州大学洛杉矶分校暗物质高级培训研究所的非本地初级研究人员提供部分财政支持。

This award will provide support for a three-day Advanced Training Institute (ATI) for about 30 junior researchers, all already engaged in dark matter research from diverse backgrounds and subfields. The Institute will take place on Feb 18-20, 2018, immediately preceding the well-established three-day international conference on "Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe," which will take place on Feb. 21-23, 2018 on the UCLA campus.This conference is aligned with NSF interests in developing a diverse workforce. The organizers will pay particular attention to the diversity of the students and the lecturers, in particular to the participation of women and other under-represented groups.The UCLA ATI, devoted entirely to dark matter, would significantly enhance the opportunities in the US for junior researchers on the dark matter problem to get a high-level training on forefront research issues in different subfields from the experts in each of these subfields. The hunt for the dark matter is truly an interdisciplinary enterprise that involves laboratory experiments, astrophysical and cosmological observations combined with simulations of structure formation in the Universe, searches at accelerators, such as the LHC, and particle physics theory. The ATI will cover a variety of different subjects in these areas, highlighting the most interesting advances. This award will provide partial financial support to non-local junior researchers participating in the UCLA Dark Matter Advanced Training Institute.