11/20/24:

  The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Any updates to the reviewing discussion?

2. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf

3. We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable. V will plan to show us the graphs that would be useful in our next meeting.

11/13/24: Reviewing, etc.

 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

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Agenda and Minutes

1. VJB is looking into increasing reviewer activities. MDPI is one company that is looking for reviewers, so he is checking into that.

The meeting ended here.

2. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching.
  
• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919
  

3. We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable. V will plan to show us the graphs that would be useful in our next meeting.

11/6/24: Discuss AI for education , etc.

 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching.
  
• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919
  

2. We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable. V will plan to show us the graphs that would be useful in our next meeting.

 

 

 

10/10/24: Reunion!

 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

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Reunion!

1. Discussion of how this group might be reconstituted. DB, RS and VB present.

2. We could meet Wednesdays at 4:30. This works for D, R and V for now. So we will continue to meet at this time weekly.

3. We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable. V will plan to show us the graphs that would be useful in our next meeting.

4. We could discuss AI, how is it affecting education, and what about AI ethics. How AI could be used in changing teaching methodology.

5. Should I invite masters students to this meeting to discuss their projects? R is interested in that. V is amenable as well.

8/2/24: Last stop! All passengers please disembark.

 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• PT defense: passed! Congratulations!
• AM paper. It was accepted and the next step is publication. This will likely be some time in September.
• This is the last meeting! It's been quite a ride, and for over six years. Best wishes to all.

Sunset, 8/6/2024. The Sun was a deep orange that doesn't show in the snapshot. Peaks to its right are (l-r) Blue Mountain, Rattlesnake Ridge, and popular hiking destination Pinnacle Mountain. 

 

7/19/24: Updates (brief)

 

 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• AM paper. It was accepted and the next step is publication. This will likely be some time in September.
  
• PT dissertation and defense. Updates to the literature review will be completed today and the new version of the document forwarded to DB and RS.
  
• Any other items? 

The meeting ended here.

 2. Reading and discussion

• Here are a couple of papers on student engagement, to be read when VB is present.
  
• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10125203. 6/14/24 evaluation was 4 1/3
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360131510002617
• https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/ai-education/

• These are also on the back burner since the people who they are most relevant to have not been here in some time.
  
• Short-Term Load Forecasting of Smart Grid Based on Load Spatial-Temporal Distribution, G. Yan et al., 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Chengdu, China, 2019, pp. 781-785, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8881259. We read up to "When the research is carried out with the aim of enhancing the forecast accuracy, the improvement of the algorithm may not improve the forecast accuracy." (Reading suggested by ECG)
• JS is pursuing research based on https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/8/244, so we can read from that article in future meetings.
  

3.  Reminders

• Discussion of "How to find & do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• Want to do a reading related to your specific interests? We can. Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.

We could evaluate different readings and read the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above. 

 

7/12/24: Discuss AM paper and PT progress

 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• AM paper: 
• WMSCI reviews were returned. Paper was accepted. Revisions due Aug. 8. Virtual conference is Sept. 10-13, 2024 but it looks like we will forego that opportunity.
• DB will revise content per reviewer comments, being sure not to add a new page, then send to RS. Will try to do it this weekend.
  
• Double check I have the most recent version, which RS sent and maybe the acceptance email contains.
  
• RS will revise the paper formatting (the margins, in particular) and submit it.
  
• PT sent DB a draft of the slides for feedback.
• PT summarized recent articles citing his paper, to assess its impact on the field, and the interests and concerns within the field as indicated by these authors' work.
• Next thing to do is to find a couple additional articles that meet the SLR criteria and some new stats, and write a new paragraph or two as a new subsection of the literature review chapter. The topic of the new subsection will thus be a non-formal assessment of how the field is progressing since the SLR was written.
  

 2. Reading and discussion

• We finished the paper about survival times of states at https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218834120 last time. 

• Check a couple of papers on student engagement:
• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10125203. 6/14/24 evaluation was 4 1/3
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360131510002617
• https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/ai-education/

• These are on the back burner since the people who they are most relevant to have not been here in some time.
  
• Short-Term Load Forecasting of Smart Grid Based on Load Spatial-Temporal Distribution, G. Yan et al., 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Chengdu, China, 2019, pp. 781-785, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8881259. We read up to "When the research is carried out with the aim of enhancing the forecast accuracy, the improvement of the algorithm may not improve the forecast accuracy." (Reading suggested by ECG)
• JS is pursuing research based on https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/8/244, so we can read from that article in future meetings.
  

3.  Reminders

• Discussion of "How to find & do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• Want to do a reading related to your specific interests? We can. Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.

We could evaluate different readings and read the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above.