US-Egypt Travel to a workshop on Holographic Techniques in Cosmology, Luxor, Egypt February 6-10, 2011

2011 年 2 月 6 日至 10 日，美国-埃及前往埃及卢克索参加宇宙学全息技术研讨会

• 批准号: 1110358
• 负责人: Sumit Das
• 金额: $ 0.36万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-02-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110358&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Egypt; Travel; workshop; Holographic

1110358 DasThis project provides partial support for a planning visit by two US scientists, Dr. Sumit Das andDr. Alfred Shapere, both at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky to attend a meeting on Holographic Techniques in Cosmology in Luxor, Egypt, February 6-10, 2011. The topics cover applications of holographic duality to outstanding problems in cosmology and gravitation. The topics include: Brane world cosmologies and String Theory models of inflation, resolution of Cosmological Singularities, analog models of cosmology and gravity and their gauge theory duals, thermalization and black hole formation and causal structure of space-time. The foreign collaboratoris Dr. Adel Awad at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.Intellectual merit: The two investigators are currently carrying out research funded by the NSF/Physics Division for interdisciplinary work at the border between traditional theoretical high-energy physics and condensed-matter physics. That work is considered to be potentially transformative. They are working on a new topic called the AdS/CFT correspondence. This is a theoretical tool which has developed over the past decade which enables physicists to study theories in new mathematical limits that have been literally beyond the reach of earlier analysis techniques. The two physicists are pioneers in using these techniques in order to build new connections between different subfields of physics, and their recent work has taken them in the direction of connecting string theory and gravity. The workshop/conference in Egypt is squarely aimed at this question, and their presence there will likely assist them in furthering their own research and in developing new collaborations with the physicists there. These physicists are highly reputable, and such collaboration will be very likely to bear significant fruit. Broader Impacts: The award will help these PI's further their research activities and collaborations with scientists from Egypt and with others participating in the workshop in significant ways.

1110358 Das 该项目为两位美国科学家 Sumit Das 博士和 Dr. Sumit Das 的计划访问提供部分支持。肯塔基州列克星敦肯塔基大学物理系和天文学系的 Alfred Shapere 出席了 2011 年 2 月 6 日至 10 日在埃及卢克索举行的宇宙学全息技术会议。会议主题涵盖全息对偶性在杰出宇宙学中的应用。宇宙学和引力问题。主题包括：膜世界宇宙学和膨胀的弦理论模型、宇宙奇点的解决、宇宙学和引力的模拟模型及其规范理论对偶、热化和黑洞形成以及时空因果结构。外国合作者是埃及开罗艾因夏姆斯大学的 Adel Awad 博士。 智力优势：两位研究人员目前正在美国国家科学基金会/物理部资助下开展研究，从事传统理论高能物理和凝聚态物理之间的跨学科工作。物质物理学。这项工作被认为具有潜在的变革性。 他们正在研究一个名为 AdS/CFT 通信的新主题。 这是过去十年发展起来的一种理论工具，它使物理学家能够在新的数学极限下研究理论，而这些极限实际上已经超出了早期分析技术的范围。 这两位物理学家是使用这些技术在物理学不同子领域之间建立新联系的先驱，他们最近的工作使他们朝着连接弦理论和引力的方向发展。在埃及举行的研讨会/会议正是针对这个问题，他们在那里的存在可能会帮助他们进一步推进自己的研究并与那里的物理学家开展新的合作。 这些物理学家声誉卓著，这种合作很可能会取得重大成果。 更广泛的影响：该奖项将帮助这些 PI 进一步开展研究活动，并与来自埃及的科学家以及其他以重要方式参与研讨会的人员进行合作。