Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society: Travel grants for junior investigators

项目总结/摘要 视觉科学协会是一个非盈利性会员组织，由近2000名对视觉科学感兴趣的科学家组成。 视觉功能方面。VSS成立于2001年，目的是将来自世界各地的科学家聚集在一起， 广泛的学科，包括视觉心理物理学，视觉神经科学，计算视觉和视觉 认知.会议的科学内容反映了议题的广度和相互关联的想法， 现代视觉科学的方法，从视觉编码到感知，识别和视觉控制， 行动，以及认知心理学，计算机视觉和神经成像的最新发展。以来 成立以来，VSS为交流视觉科学的进步提供了一个论坛和框架， 已成为该领域的旗舰会议。VSS的跨学科性质反映在 董事会和摘要审查委员会的成员故意多样化。许多教师 参加VSS的美国机构的主要研究人员是国家眼科研究所 赠款;因此，美国国立卫生研究院和美国国立卫生研究院计划的研究目标 眼科研究所在项目规划和个人演讲中有很好的代表性。超过60%的 参加者是博士前和博士后的受训人员。其中55%是美国公民。VSS提供多个 职业发展机会：（1）平台和海报展示为学员提供了一个论坛， 展示他们工作并接受反馈，（2）职业发展研讨会涵盖的主题包括“获得 教师的工作”，“审查和回应评论”，“你的科学的公众形象”，“职业生涯在 工业和政府”，“教师职业在小学本科院校”，并包括小组 与期刊编辑、NIH和NSF资助官员以及学术界和行业代表进行讨论，（3）a “会见教授”活动，学员以小组形式与VSS董事会成员和其他 教授们进行自由的、开放式的讨论，以及（4）与ARVO合作主办一次研讨会 系列，使VSS与会者了解ARVO成员和ARVO的临床研究进展 参与VSS成员的基础研究进展。VSS还提供许多正式的活动， 在舒适和有吸引力的环境中与同行和高级同事建立联系的非正式机会。 VSS的大量早期调查人员是该领域健康状况良好的标志， VSS为推进该领域提供了机会。我们的目标是促进访问和参与， 一代视觉科学家。VSS此前获得了为期一年的R13奖，以支持2019年的会议， 为博士后学员和早期职业教师提供旅行奖励。基于成功和积极的 由于这一初步支持的影响，这一5年提案的目的是每年为以下人员提供48次旅行奖励： 早期职业调查人员参加2020-2024年会议，重点是吸引和支持 多样化的本科生和研究生，博士后实习生和终身教职员工， 展示作为视觉研究人员未来成功的潜力，并展示其研究成果 在会上还要求提供资金以抵消本科生参加者的注册费用， 显著扩大访问和参与会议的学生首次遇到的领域 视觉科学

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Vision Sciences Society is a nonprofit membership organization of nearly 2000 scientists interested in the functional aspects of vision. VSS was founded in 2001 with the purpose of bringing together scientists from a broad range of disciplines including visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience, computational vision and visual cognition. The scientific content of the meetings reflects the breadth of topics and interconnected ideas and approaches in modern vision science, from visual coding to perception, recognition and the visual control of action, as well as recent developments in cognitive psychology, computer vision and neuroimaging. Since its founding, VSS has provided a forum and framework for communicating advances in vision science, and VSS has become a flagship conference for the field. The interdisciplinary nature of VSS is reflected in the deliberately diverse membership of the Board of Directors and Abstract Review Committee. Many of the faculty from institutions in the United States who attend VSS are principal investigators of National Eye Institute grants; hence, the research objectives of the programs of the National Institutes of Health and of the National Eye Institute are well-represented in the program planning and individual presentations. Over 60% of participants are predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees. Of these 55% are US citizens. VSS provides multiple career development opportunities: (1) the platform and poster presentations provide a forum for trainees to showcase their work and receive feedback, (2) career-development workshops cover topics such as “Getting that Faculty Job”, “Reviewing and Responding to Reviews”, “The Public Face of your Science”, “Careers in Industry and Government”, “Faculty Careers at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions”, and include panel discussions with journal editors, NIH and NSF grant officers, and academic and industry representatives, (3) a “Meet the Professors” event in which trainees meet in small groups with members of the VSS Board and other professors for free-wheeling, open-ended discussions, and (4) a partnership with ARVO to host a symposium series that exposes VSS attendees to advances in clinical research from ARVO members and ARVO attendees to advances in basic research from VSS members. VSS also provides many formal events and informal opportunities for networking with peers and senior colleagues in a comfortable and engaging setting. The large contingent of early-stage investigators at VSS is a sign of the strong health of the field and the opportunity VSS provides for advancing the field. Our goal is to facilitate access and participation for this next generation of vision scientists. VSS previously received a one-year R13 award to support the 2019 meeting by providing travel awards for postdoctoral trainees and early-career faculty. Based on the success and positive impact of this initial support, the purpose of this 5-year proposal is to provide 48 travel awards per year for early-career investigators to attend the 2020-2024 meetings, with the focus on attracting and supporting a diverse pool of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, and pre-tenure faculty who demonstrate potential for future success as vision researchers and whose research findings will be presented at the meeting. Funds are also requested to offset the registration costs for undergraduate attendees in order to significantly expand access and participation at the conference for students first encountering the field of vision science.