13th Annual Symposium of the NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellows

该奖项将为NSF天文学和天体物理学博士后奖学金（AAPF）计划第十三届年度研讨会的与会者和特邀演讲者提供支持，该研讨会将于2015年1月在华盛顿西雅图与美国天文学会（AAS）冬季会议一起举行。AAPF计划的目的是整合博士后水平的研究和教育活动，以更好地为研究员的科学事业做好准备。一年一度的研讨会为研究员提供了一个讨论他们的研究和教学或推广项目的场所，同时增加了他们在天文学和天体物理学界的曝光率。研讨会是AAPF计划的一个重要组成部分，并作为一种机制，促进研究员在其活动过程中获得的知识转移到广泛的受众。与本系列之前的研讨会一样，2015年的AAPF研讨会将促进有着不同兴趣和背景的天文学家之间的互动。通过创建一个论坛，在这个论坛中，讨论可以跨越由子学科定义的标准边界，这为新的见解和发展新的跨学科合作的能力提供了很大的机会。研讨会还将为讨论对早期职业天文学家很重要的其他问题提供一个场所。此外，研讨会将(1)提供一个讨论研究与教学结合的论坛，(2)促进AAPF研究员之间在研究和教育方面的合作，(3)为研究员和天文学界的奖学金项目提供机会。

This award will provide support for attendees and invited speakers for the thirteenth annual symposium of the NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAPF) program, to be held in conjunction with the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in January, 2015, in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of the AAPF program is to integrate research and educational activities at the postdoctoral level to better prepare fellows for a scientific career. The annual symposium provides a venue for fellows to discuss their research and teaching or outreach projects while increasing their exposure within the astronomy and astrophysics community. The symposium represents a key component of the AAPF program and acts as a mechanism to facilitate knowledge transfer from experiences that the fellows have obtained in the course of their activities to a broad audience. As with previous symposia in this series, the AAPF symposium for 2015 will promote interactions among astronomers with very different interests and backgrounds. By creating a forum in which discussions can occur across the standard boundaries defined by sub-discipline, there is great opportunity for new insights and the ability to develop new interdisciplinary collaborations. The symposium will also provide a venue for discussing other issues that are important to early career astronomers. In addition, the symposium will (1) provide a forum for discussing the combination of research and teaching, (2) facilitate collaborations between AAPF fellows on both research and education, and (3) provide exposure for the fellows and the fellowship program within the astronomical community.