XXVIIth International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2019) and Pre-SUSY Training Workshop (Pre-SUSY 2019)

该奖项授予德克萨斯州农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校的Barbara Szczerbinska教授，以支持SUSY 2019会议和SUSY 2019学前教育。粒子物理学的标准模型成功地解释了高能对撞机实验中收集到的几乎所有数据。超对称（SUSY）是标准模型最优雅的扩展之一，它使科学家能够解决许多标准模型未解决的理论问题。这包括理论中出现的某些质量尺度的起源和稳定性。超对称性理论还预测了某些粒子的存在，这些粒子可能是宇宙中看不见的暗物质的理想候选者，世界各地的许多实验都在寻找暗物质。超对称性还允许不同的基本力在高能量尺度上统一为单一的“大统一”力。大型强子对撞机（LHC）正在寻找超对称性。超对称性在弦理论和标准模型之外的许多其他物理理论中也扮演着重要的角色。由于超对称在现代粒子物理学中的核心重要性，每年的超对称性会议在过去的20年里已经发展成为主要的年度国际物理会议，重点关注标准模型之外的物理。因此，这些会议提供了一个独特的场所，不仅讨论超对称性的地位，而且还讨论了各种主题，如粒子物理与宇宙学之间的联系，超对称及其替代品，希格斯粒子，中微子物理，暗物质，天体粒子物理，引力波和弦理论。SUSY会议还包括讨论大型强子对撞机的结果，最近的中微子实验和观测，直接和间接的暗物质探测实验，引力波的探测，粒子对撞机的数据，以及宇宙微波背景和宇宙大尺度结构的测量。此外，从今年开始，SUSY会议还将以高能物理与原子/分子/光学（AMO）物理和量子信息科学的实验技术之间的联系为特色，从而增加了会议的跨学科性。SUSY 2019（第xxviii届超对称与基本相互作用统一国际会议）将于2019年5月20日至24日在德州农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校（TAMU-CC）举办。每年的超级物理学年会通常都有大量的年轻博士后和学生参加，因此形成了一个传统，即每次超级物理学年会之前都有一个“学校”或培训研讨会，致力于为这些未来的年轻研究人员提供充分受益于会议内容的背景，以及教育他们最先进的实验和理论高能物理方法。这一目标是通过高能物理领域的知名活跃研究人员的一系列高水平讲座和会谈来实现的。因此，在2019年中南大学国际学术会议召开之前，将在2019年中南大学国际学术会议召开前一周（2019年5月15日至18日）在TAMU-CC校园举行为期四天的预科培训研讨会。对2019年南南大学会议和2019年南南大学学前教育的支持将产生重大而广泛的影响。会议和学前教育将帮助年轻科学家与理论和实验同事互动，从而扩大他们的粒子物理学知识。这些教育目标对于青年科学家融入社会和保持该领域的活力是重要的。因此，对这些活动的支持通过促进科学进步和培养美国下一代研究人员来促进国家利益。在规划这次会议的整个过程中，一直注意确保在各级有各种各样的发言者和各种各样的与会者。此外，将提供一项基金，帮助支付代表性不足的机构的学生以及代表性不足的少数民族和妇女的费用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant award is made to Professor Barbara Szczerbinska at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, in support of the SUSY 2019 Conference and SUSY 2019 Pre-School. The Standard Model of particle physics successfully explains virtually all data which has ever been collected at high-energy collider experiments. Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of most elegant extensions of the Standard Model and allows scientists to address a number of theoretical issues left unresolved by the Standard Model. These include the origin and stability of certain mass scales which appear in the theory. SUSY also predicts the existence of certain particles which might serve as ideal candidates for the unseen dark matter of the universe, searches for which are ongoing in a number of experiments worldwide. SUSY also allows the different fundamental forces to be unified into a single "grand-unified" force at high energy scales. Searches for SUSY are ongoing at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). SUSY also plays a prominent role in string theory and in many other ideas for physics beyond the Standard Model. As a result of the central importance of supersymmetry in modern particle physics, the annual SUSY conferences have grown over the past 20 years to become the dominant annual international physics conferences focused on physics beyond the Standard Model. As such, these conferences provide a unique venue for discussions not only on the status of SUSY but also on diverse topics such as connections between particle physics and cosmology, supersymmetry and its alternatives, the Higgs particle, the physics of neutrinos, dark matter, astro-particle physics, gravitational waves, and string theory. The SUSY conferences also include discussions of results from the Large Hadron Collider, recent neutrino experiments and observations, direct and indirect dark-matter detection experiments, detection of gravitational waves, data from particle colliders, as well as measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure in the universe. Moreover, starting this year, the SUSY conferences will also be featuring connections between high-energy physics and experimental techniques from Atomic/Molecular/Optical (AMO) physics and Quantum Information Science, thereby increasing the interdisciplinarity of this conference.SUSY 2019 (the XXVIIth International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions) will be hosted by Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC), during May 20-24, 2019. The annual SUSY conferences are typically attended by large numbers of young postdocs and students each year, and as a result a tradition has developed wherein each SUSY conference is also preceded by a "school" or training workshop dedicated to providing these future young researchers the background to fully profit from the contents of the conference, as well as to educate them in state-of-the-art methods of experimental and theoretical high-energy physics. This objective is fulfilled through a series of high-level lectures and talks by well-known active researchers in the field of high-energy physics. Accordingly, the SUSY 2019 conference will be preceded by a four-day pre-SUSY training workshop which will take place on TAMU-CC campus during the week prior the SUSY 2019 conference (May 15-18, 2019).Support for the SUSY 2019 Conference and the SUSY 2019 pre-School will have significant broader impacts. Both the Conference and pre-School will help young scientists to interact with theoretical and experimental colleagues and thereby broaden their knowledge of particle physics. These educational goals are important to the integration of young scientists into the community, and to maintain the vibrancy of the field. As such, support for these events advances the national interest by promoting the progress of science and the training of the next generation of researchers in the United States. Throughout the planning for this conference, care has been taken to ensure a diverse set of speakers at all levels as well as a diverse set of conference participants. Moreover, a fund will be made available to help cover the expenses of students from underrepresented institutions, as well as underrepresented minorities and women.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.