9/17/21: Research results, etc.

 AGENDA  AND  MINUTES

  1. Updates: 

• Welcome to guest JH.

• DB will present some findings.

• SD will present an update on her results. She will next look at the fraction of female astronauts broken out by year. 

• A recent case of Moore's law?Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00530-0)

• VJB paper was accepted by the journal version of the conference. See Sept. 8 11:18 am email (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/wmsci/FMfcgzGljlkzzBbjpdJQMtBTvxprnRXs) for instructions. RS spearheaded the submittal process - thanks!
• MH paper: any news? 
• PT presentation for conference was uploaded to the conference.
• PT candidacy exam updates? 
• Financials.
• As of 6/25/21, PT paid $400 for FTC and the college has agreed to reimburse him for it after the conference, which is in late October.

2. Reading and discussion:

• Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment. We did not do any readings last time. This leaves us at section 3.2.2, item (5), so we can start from there as time allows.

---------------------------------------Below are some ideas for future discussion----------------------

• 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.
• MH suggests a short book called Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.
• MH suggests Pantelis Koutroumpis, The Productivity Paradox, a report.

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):

What is the source?
What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper? 
Why is that advance important?
What important questions arise from the paper for future research?
What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer? 
What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)? 
What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals?
Questions from the group?