11/29/19: Updates on papers and theses

• The space race writeup: it did not appear last Monday but maybe it will appear next Monday. No communication received from the editor since he acknowledged receiving it a few days before last Monday.
• VB defense (held on Wednesday). Passed! Congratulations. He has just sent us an update to the thesis that is responsive to the points raised at his defense. VK indicated that he is fine with DB making sure VB makes the required changes to the thesis.
• We discussed a paper based on the thesis using curve fitting and statistical bounds. RS would need the raw data, but first, we need to strategize on the message of the paper. The plan is to get the message settled and know what data we need from VB and get the data from him before he leaves on Dec. 26 since he won't be back until late January. RS will initiate an email thread on the paper and its message soon to get the process started. He would like to target WMSCI for the paper.
• MH thesis status. He sent a draft for comments. We decided that the published papers therein would best be contained as appendices, and references to them should give both the standard citation and a note that they are also in the appendices, as in (Authorlastname 2019, reprinted in Appendix C herein). It is not necessary to send the slides ahead of the defense per official rules but the committee would like him to do it anyway. 
• We did not read an discuss any of the paper we have been going through.

11/22/19: Thesis and paper updates

• Discuss the space race writeup. Satellite extension for future work? Status.
• Determine date for VB defense. Timeline: 

• PPT for defence on or before 11/22/2019.
• Thesis status.
• Planning for final defence: We'll do it Wednesday Nov. 27 at 11:00 a.m. and DB will send a calendar invite.

• Paper for VB's figures? If RS can get the data from VB then he can apply statistical analyses over winter break. 
• MH thesis status. Making progress.
• We did not read any of the paper we have been slowly going through.

11/15/19: Thesis progress, etc.

Agenda

• Discuss the space race writeup. Satellite extension for future work? No acknowledgment has been received that the paper arrived safely. Last time the ack was the same day and this time we're in the 4th day. So maybe he didn't intercept the emailed submittal properly? 
• Determine date for VB defense. Timeline: 

• send partial completion of document on or before 11/3/2019.
• complete analysis and final document for verification by advisor on or before 11/10/2019.
• Any modifications and additions and suggestions will complete by 11/17/2019.
• PPT for defence on or before 11/22/2019.
• Planning for final defence: We'll do it Wednesday Nov. 27 at 11:00 a.m. and DB will send a calendar invite.

• Paper for VB's figures? If RS can get the data from VB then he can apply statistical analyses over winter break. 
• MH thesis status. Making progress.

11/8/19: Space Race paper ready; thesis progress

Agenda

• Space race paper status: submit today or tomorrow. Replicate with satellites for future work?
• Discuss VB draft and status. Timeline: 

• send partial completion of document on or before 11/3/2019.
• complete analysis and final document for verification by advisor on or before 11/10/2019.
• Any modifications and additions and suggestions will complete by 11/17/2019.
• PPT for defence on or before 11/22/2019.
• Planning for final defence (depending on advisor decision & committee  members are comfortable) on W Nov. 27 or F Nov. 29

• Paper for VB's figures? We could use them in a new version of HA's OAS paper?
• MH thesis status