6/4/21: Graphs and research questions; readings

      Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates and plans.

• Updates? RS uploaded the WMSCI paper. He did not upload the slides yet as could not find the right spot. Actual conference is in July. 
• VJB reported on new satellite failure records extracted from planet4589 payload data.
• DB reported on a new graph at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZtfkjbcTOoZTbETUkOY5Hlq5SY5GREvFYjgzmKZQww4/edit#gid=2085540424. This suggests some research questions about things like finding confidence intervals for doubling times (and the methodological issue of how important this is), investigating the "right" way to measure error when curve fitting, and why doubling times are so different for moving window maximums compared to all data points.
• Registration and etc. fees: Any news? RS paid $640 for WMSCI and also applied for reimbursement from his dept. 

2. Background literature update.

• Some interesting videos are at the Kartik Gada channel such as  at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRX67CJhaOT98Jdjh85CEQ which we discussed previously.

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 2.1 so next time we will start with 2.1.

    c. 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.