Travel: Support Participation in International Scientific Meetings by U.S. Astronomers

授予美国天文学会的这一奖项将资助美国天文学家参加国际科学会议，展示他们的研究成果，并与他们的国际同行接触。它将通过美国天文学会的国际旅行补助计划，为选定的个人提供美国旗舰航空公司参加在国际地点举行的会议的往返经济舱机票。该计划偏爱职业生涯较早的天文学家，如研究生和最近获得博士学位的人，来自规模较小、资金较少的机构的天文学家，以及在国际会议上发挥重要作用的天文学家，如特邀或全体演讲者。该计划的基本目标是让美国科学家在国际科学会议上展示他们的研究成果，在会议上向其他人学习，并与国际科学家建立网络。该项目还有助于关注美国的研究成就和美国为天文科学提供的充满活力的研究环境，并可能成为国际科学家与美国科学家建立研究伙伴关系，甚至考虑移居美国从事研究事业的招聘工具。国际旅行的经历也将使个人研究人员受益，使他们能够发展和完善他们的演讲风格，同时在可用和适当的情况下，直接与天文学社区的其他人和公众分享他们的研究成果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award to the American Astronomical Society will fund U.S. astronomers to travel to international scientific conferences to present their research and to engage with their international colleagues. It will provide to selected individuals round-trip, economy-class airfare on U.S. flag carriers to conferences held in international locations through the American Astronomical Society’s International Travel Grant Program. The program favors earlier career astronomers, such as graduate students and those having recently received their Ph.D., those from smaller, less-endowed institutions, and astronomers playing important roles in international conferences, such as invited or plenary speakers.The fundamental goal of the program is to place U.S. scientists at international scientific conferences to present their research, learn from others at the conference, and network with international scientists. The program also helps shine a spotlight on U.S. research accomplishments and on the dynamic research environment that the U.S. provides for the astronomical sciences, and could serve as a recruitment tool for international scientists to undertake research partnerships with American scientists or even to consider relocating to the U.S. to pursue their research career. The experience of international travel will also benefit the individual researchers, allowing them to grow and perfect their presentation style, while directly sharing their research results with others in the astronomy community and with the public, where available and appropriate.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.