[Physics-grads-announce] Postdoctoral Fellowship Panel Discussion

[Jory Yarmoff]

Dear Physics and Astronomy grad students,

The Physics and Astronomy Community Excellence (PACE <https://uci-pace.github.io/>) mentoring program, a National Osterbrock Leadership Program node at UC Irvine, is hosting two panel discussions on the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship (AAPF), respectively. They will be held (virtually via Zoom) on Tuesday May 4th 3:30-5pm PST and Tuesday May 11th 3:30-5pm PST, respectively. These events are open to all UC physics and astronomy grads. Please register by this Friday; registration (see below) is required for attendance. 

Each of these postdoctoral programs has its own nuances in both the application and the reward. The NSF AAPF application and reward process is different from the majority of prize postdoctoral fellowship applications in that it is written more like a grant, including the famed “Broader Impacts” criterion. The UC PPFP / Chancellor’s Fellowship is judged across all disciplines, and has unique benefits and requirements, such as the UC faculty hiring incentive and the potential to stack funding sources. 

In these panels / workshops, students will gain insider knowledge from previous winners on creating competitive applications, and on the field-related benefits of each fellowship. We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity as there is no other like this for the NSF AAPF, and campus UC PPFP panels hosted by your campus’s grad division likely doesn’t include many physics and astronomy fellows. 

Our talented panelists are listed below. If you are interested in attending, please register for the event(s) here and share your questions for the panelists within. <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScy2AakdU6BRGVEcap1FdNmgNMV6WMt31ZY8AK-zw1dew9eoQ/viewform?usp=sf_link> 

UC PPFP Panelists - May 4th
Dr. Coral Wheeler, Faculty at Cal Poly Pomona, PPFP @ UCD
Dr. Natasha Batalha, Scientist at NASA, PPFP @ UCSC
Dr. Seyda Ipek, Postdoc & PPFP @ UCI
Dr. Sarah Loebman, Faculty at UC Merced, PPFP @ UCD

NSF AAPF Panelists - May 11th
Dr. Patrick Sheehan, Postdoc & AAPF @ Northwestern
Dr. Christina Williams, Scientist & AAPF @ U. of Arizona 
Dr. Emily Martin, Postdoc & AAPF @ UCSC

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Jory A. Yarmoff, Professor and Graduate Advisor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA  92521  USA

Office: (951) 827-5336, Lab: (951) 827-3537, FAX: (951) 827-4529
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