培养下一代天文学家
天体物理仪器与方法
2009-04-20 v1
摘要
尽管社会和天文学在过去五十年中都发生了巨大变化，但塑造我们领域的学术机构和激励机制在很大程度上仍然停滞不前。因此，天文学界面临着几个重大挑战，包括：（1）我们提供的培训与未来天文学家所需的技能不匹配；（2）博士后阶段变得越来越苛刻和令人沮丧；（3）我们的工作对有孩子的家庭越来越不友好。解决这些问题需要有意识地设计我们的职业。幸运的是，这份十年评审提供了修订过时做法以使其更有效和更公平的机会。职业状况小组委员会的最高优先事项应是推荐具体的、有资金支持的活动，以确保该领域能够应对我们所描述的挑战。
引用
@article{arxiv.0904.2571,
title = {Training the Next Generation of Astronomers},
author = {Peter K. G. Williams and Eric Huff and Holly Maness and Maryam Modjaz and Kristen L. Shapiro and Jeffrey M. Silverman and Linda Strubbe and Betsey Adams and Katherine Alatalo and Kuenley Chiu and Mark Claire and Bethany Cobb and Kelle Cruz and Louis-Benoit Desroches and Melissa Enoch and Chat Hull and Hannah Jang-Condell and Casey Law and Nicholas McConnell and Rowin Meijerink and Stella Offner and John K. Parejko and Jonathan Pober and Klaus Pontoppidan and Dovi Poznanski and Anil Seth and Steven Stahler and Lucianne Walkowicz and Andrew A. West and Andrew Wetzel and David Whysong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2571},
year = {2009}
}
备注
9 pp + cover page; position paper submitted to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey Subcommittee on the State of the Profession; small typographical corrections made; submitted version at http://www8.nationalacademies.org/astro2010/DetailFileDisplay.aspx?id=460