NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellows Symposium

Jeffrey Kenney （PI）、Nathan McCrady（联合PI）、Mary McSwain（联合PI）、Erik Rosolowsky（联合PI）博士（耶鲁大学）与联合PI Nathan McCrady（加州大学洛杉矶分校）、Mary McSwain（耶鲁大学）和Erik Rosolowsky（哈佛-史密森CfA）获得资助，组织和主持美国国家科学基金会天文学和天体物理学博士后奖学金（AAPF）计划的第五届年度研讨会。研讨会将于2007年1月5日至6日在华盛顿州西雅图举行，届时将汇集AAPF研究员、教师导师、潜在的AAPF申请者以及对天文社区感兴趣的成员。这将使受奖人能够展示他们的研究和教育活动，并更好地建立丰富奖学金体验本身的方法。此外，研究员将有机会在研讨会期间与同事建立跨学科项目。将教育活动纳入奖学金学生的研究工作，将为奖学金计划带来广泛的影响。许多研究员参加了K-12/公共宣传活动，从而提高了公众对科学的兴趣。研讨会将允许研究员不仅在他们之间，而且与教师导师和其他与会者分享他们的想法和经验。特别值得注意的是，今年的研讨会是美国天文学会和美国物理教师协会的联合会议（紧接在AAPF研讨会之后），这应该会导致对科学教育感兴趣的研讨会的潜在与会者更加丰富，因此，有机会接触到比以前更广泛的听众。

ABSTRACT AST 0701849 Jeffrey Kenney (PI), Nathan McCrady (co-PI), Mary McSwain (co-PI), Erik Rosolowsky (co-PI) Dr. Jeffrey Kenney (Yale University), along with co-PIs Nathan McCrady (UCLA), Mary McSwain (Yale University), and Erik Rosolowsky (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) are awarded funds to organize and conduct the fifth annual symposium of the NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship (AAPF) program. The symposium, to be held January 5-6, 2007 in Seattle, WA, will bring together the AAPF fellows, faculty mentors, prospective AAPF applicants, and interested members of the astronomical community. This will allow the fellows to present their research and educational activities, and better establish ways to enrich the fellowship experience itself. Additionally, fellows will obtain opportunities to establish interdisciplinary projects with colleagues during the symposium. The integration of educational activities into the research efforts of the fellows provides for a broad impact of the fellowship program. Many fellows participate in K-12/public outreach activities, leading to enhancement of the public's interest in science. The symposium will allow the fellows to share their ideas and experiences, not only among themselves, but also with faculty mentors and with others in attendance. Of particular note for this year's symposium is the joint meeting of the American Astronomical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers (which immediately follows the AAPF symposium), which should result in an even richer pool of potential attendees to the symposium interested in science education and, thus, the chance to reach an even broader audience than in previous symposia.