inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference

这项建议要求提供资金，以支持由6个学习科学中心(SLC)的研究生和博士后研究员组织的年度学习科学中心间会议(I-SLC)。本次活动为中心学员提供了一个交流研究成果、共享资源和促进职业发展机会的重要场所。这一卓有成效的活动促成了跨中心合作，包括跨中心学生交流，以便在其他实验室进行额外培训。今年的会议将由NSF资助的加州圣地亚哥时间动力学学习中心(TDLC)于2012年4月21-23日主办。为了利用东道主中心对学习的时间动态以及时间和时机如何影响学习的主要研究重点，iSLC 2012将有一个总的主题：“时间、思想和教育交织在一起”。申请的资金将用于支付加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)的会议设施费用，并用于支付与会者的出席费用，包括旅费和每日津贴，以最大限度地提高会议实现目标的效率。参加ISLC的个别学生和博士后研究员将受益于访问加州大学圣迭戈分校，学习同行的经验，并接触到新的和替代的方法和范例。最重要的是，他们将有机会积极参与跨中心和跨学科的网络，为他们的职业生涯提供支持。由于大多数研究生和博士后研究员通常参加特定领域的会议，很少有机会与其学科利基之外的同行互动，因此，这一年度活动旨在解决为年轻学者的全国乃至国际跨学科网络提供基础设施的必要性，这些年轻学者可能会在未来的职业生涯中继续合作和协作。今年，受训人员正在积极实施几项战略，通过利用各自中心正在进行的努力，扩大未被充分代表的少数群体对科学的参与。

This proposal requests funds to support the annual Inter-Science of Learning Centers (i-SLC) Conference, organized by the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the 6 Science of Learning Centers (SLCs). This event has served as a vital venue for exchanging research findings across the SLCs, sharing resources and stimulating career development opportunities for Center trainees. This highly productive activity has resulted in cross-center collaborations, including cross-center student exchanges for additional training in other laboratories. This year, the conference will be hosted by the NSF-funded Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) in San Diego, CA on April 21-23, 2012. To capitalize on the host-center's primary research focus on the temporal dynamics of learning and how time and timing influences learning, the iSLC 2012 will have the general theme of "Time, Mind, and Education Interwined". Requested funds will be used to pay for conference facilities at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and to cover participants' costs of attending, including travel and per diem Earlier iSLC conferences experiment in various ways to maximize the effectiveness with which the meeting meets its objectives, and each evolution of this event reflects deliberate efforts to improve the meeting based on feedback from prior meetings. Individual students and postdoctoral fellows attending iSLC will benefit from visiting UCSD, learning from experiences of their peers, and by being exposed to new and alternative methodologies and paradigms. Most importantly, they will be provided with opportunities to participate actively in the cross-center, and inter-disciplinary network that will provide support for them in their careers. Since most graduate students and postdoctoral fellows typically attend field-specific conferences with little opportunity to interact with peers outside of their disciplinary niches, this annual event is addressing the need to provide the infrastructure for a national, and even international, interdisciplinary network of young scholars who are likely to continue to cooperate and collaborate throughout their future careers. This year, the trainees are proactively implementing several strategies to broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities in science, by leveraging on-going efforts at their respective centers.