6/25/21: Reimbursements, etc.


Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates and plans. 

  • RS: (1) VJB's slides are successfully uploaded; (2) The WMSCI registration fee is paid 100% by his dept.; and (3) he is invited to give a plenary talk there and will talk update his last year's talk for this year. PT extended his analysis and reported some new results. 
  • Status of registration and travel fees. RS has paid $640 for WMSCI and applied for reimbursement from his dept. which has agreed to reimburse him for it. PT paid $400 for FTC and the college has agreed to reimburse him for it.
  • RS suggests we all send him our citation information for our publications and he will put it into one list of publications.

2. Background literature update.

  • For general reference here are some generic questions about articles (and videos):
       a. What is the source? 
       b. What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper? 
       c. Why is that advance important? 
       d. What important questions arise from the paper for future research? 
       e. What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer? 
       f. What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)? 
       g. What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals? 
       h. Questions from the group? 

3. Reading and discussion: 
    a. Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment. We read up to section 2.2 so next time we will start with 2.2.
    b. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.
    c. MH suggests a short book called Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.
    d. MH suggests Pantelis Koutroumpis, The Productivity Paradox, a report.


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