DMSS: a Dark Matter Summer School

这一奖项将为DMSS(暗物质暑期学校)提供支持，DMSS是一所只致力于暗物质的暑期学校。这所学校面向初级研究生，并将为优秀的本科生提供一些名额。暑期班将在纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校举行。预计将于2018年7月16日至20日举行。暑期班将从三个层面影响社区：少数民族学生、高中生和普通公众。女性和代表性不足的少数族裔学生将在本科生和研究生阶段都有选择的机会。组织者将促进多样性，并通过向仅限女性的大学以及历史上的黑人学院和大学伸出援手，鼓励代表人数不足的少数族裔在研究生院继续学习。DMSS还将包含一个外展部分，允许选定的高中生，至少一名来自市中心的高中，来参观研究实验室，参加学生讲座，并与本科生、研究生和讲师讨论，让他们对物理学的未来有一个现实的想法，并有望说服他们去上大学。一场关于暗物质的公开演讲也将引起公众和未来一代科学家的兴趣。天体粒子物理学，特别是寻找暗物质，是目前最具吸引力的研究领域之一。然而，没有多少大学，甚至更少的文理学院，提供本科生水平的粒子物理课程。此外，提供天体粒子物理学研究生课程的大学往往不会每年都开设天体粒子物理学课程。这个暑期班的所有主题都将与暗物质有关，并将包括实验和理论，以吸引实验和理论物理的学生。

This award will provide support for DMSS (Dark Matter Summer School), a summer school dedicated only to dark matter. The school is geared towards junior graduate students and will have a few spots open for exceptional undergraduate students. The summer school will be held at the University at Albany, SUNY. It is foreseen to be held from July 16-20, 2018.The summer school will impact the community on three levels: minority students, high school students and the general public. Women and underrepresented minority students will be given a place of choice, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The organizers will promote diversity and encourage underrepresented minorities to pursue their studies in graduate schools by reaching out to women-only colleges, as well as historically black colleges and universities. DMSS will also contain an outreach component, allowing select high school students, at least one from an inner city high school, to come, take a tour of a research lab, attend student's talks, and discuss with both undergraduate, graduate students and lecturers to give them an idea of what a future in physics realistically looks like and hopefully convince them to go to college in physics. A public talk on dark matter is also scheduled to trigger the interest of both the public and the future generation of scientists.Astroparticle physics, specifically, the search for dark matter, is currently one of the most attractive research areas. However, not many universities, and even less liberal arts colleges, offer a particle physics class at the undergraduate level. In addition, universities who offer a graduate program in astroparticle physics tend not to have an astroparticle physics class offered every year. All the topics of this summer school will be related to dark matter and will encompass both experiment and theory, in order to attract students in both experimental and theoretical physics.