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

 

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2. If you would like to discuss AI and ML, consider joining the videoconference discussion group AIn't What It Used to Be.
3. If you would like to discuss bibliometrics, inquire about the videoconference group Bibliometrika.
4. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD, see the following page on this site -
   
• How to Do PhD Level Research: a Few Hints

Have a great day! 

     Feel free to check out the photos in most of the entries from 

             6/4/22 - 2/9/24  and  4/12/24 - 4/26/24.

DB

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

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

 

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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 

 

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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 

 

          A research and discussion group             

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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. 

 

7/5/24: Finish reading on the survival times of states

 

 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: submitted to WMSCI. Reviews due back July 9; revisions due in Aug.; virtual conf. is Sept. 10-13, 2024.
  
• Updates made to the PhD student hints page.
• PT draft. A summary of recent activity in the topic of the systematic review would be good to add at the end of the chapter. Details to be discussed off line.
  

 2. Reading and discussion

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

The meeting ended here.

• 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. 

 

6/28/24: Survival times of countries

 

 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

• TE paper: appeared in JSCI already!
• AM paper: submitted to WMSCI. Reviews due back July 9; revisions due in Aug.; virtual conf. is Sept. 10-13, 2024.
  
• Updates made to the PhD student hints page.
  

 2. Reading and discussion

• We are on the paper about survival times of states at https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218834120. We finished up to the section "Outlook." We can start there next time we do this paper.

The meeting ended here.

• 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. 

 

6/14/2024: Start evaluating articles on teaching CS

 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: submitted to WMSCI. Reviews due back July 9; revisions due in Aug.; virtual conf. is Sept. 10-13, 2024.
  
• TE paper: supposed to appear in JSCI within the next two issues.
  

• NOTE: no meeting next week. We will meet as usual the following week.
  

 2. Reading and discussion

• 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/

The meeting ended here.

• We are on the paper about survival times of states at https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218834120. We finished up to "A useful concept to integrate the effects of vulnerability and stochastic challenges is resilience" We can start there.
  
• 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.