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.