3/202020: More statuses and readings

Agenda & Minutes

1. PT status. Working on MSIS proposal.

2. MH status. MS thesis approved.

3. VJB status. Preparing for candidacy exams: has problem statement and 2 out of 3 examiners lined up. Plans to update us on data sources and readings regularly starting soon.
4. WMSCI paper update. No news yet. Could the conference end up being cancelled?
5. We are skipping around in our paper Moore’s Law and Space Exploration: New Insights and Next Steps. Today we read the second paragraph in section "The Moore’s law conundrums."
6. In the future we may continue to discuss this. We read table 2 and results par. 1 most recently so next is par. 2.

3/13/2020: statuses and readings

Agenda & Minutes

1. PT status. Working on MSIS proposal.

2. MH status. MS thesis in review by the Graduate School for format compliance.

3. VJB status. Preparing for candidacy exams: has problem statement and 2 out of 3 examiners lined up. Plans to update us on data sources and readings regularly starting soon.
4. WMSCI paper update. No news yet.
5. We are skippping around in our paper Moore’s Law and Space Exploration: New Insights and Next Steps. Today we started with the 2nd par. on p. 15 and read through the first paragraph in section "The Moore’s law conundrums."
6. In the future we may continue to discuss this: We read table 2 and results par. 1 most recently.

3/6/2020: continuing as before but with a different reading

Agenda

1. PT status.

2. MH status.

3. VJB status.
4. WMSCI paper update.
5. Start reviewing our paper M. Howell, V. Kodali, R. Segall, H. Aboudja, and D. Berleant, “ Moore’s Law and Space Exploration: New Insights and Next Steps ,” Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science (2019), 73(Article 6):13-17? We read the abstract and first two paragraphs. Next time we will skip around and hit some key material later in the paper. We will start with the 2nd par. on p. 15.
6. Plans for VJB to update us on satellite data.

7. In the future we may continue to discuss: Funk and Magee 2014 - We read table 2 and results par. 1 most recently.

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2/28/2020: Continuing...

Agenda

1. PT status.

2. MH status.

3. VJB status.
4. VJB thesis: we reviewed most of it. This could lead to a short article for The Space Review led by VJB to which anyone wishing to be listed as an author could contribute a paragraph or more of text. See https://dberleant.github.io/thesis.pdf.
5. Discuss: Funk and Magee 2014 - we'll pick up with Table 2. We read part of paragraph 1, section 4 last time.

• 6. Next time: start reviewing our paper M. Howell, V. Kodali, R. Segall, H. Aboudja, and D. Berleant, “ Moore’s Law and Space Exploration: New Insights and Next Steps ,” Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science (2019), 73(Article 6):13-17?
• 7. WMSCI paper update.
• 8. Plans for VJB to update us on satellite data.

2/21/2020: Continued readings, etc.

Agenda

1. PT status.

2. VJB status
3. MH status
4. Re-examination: VJB thesis (updated) - we will start this time on Fig. 17. This could lead to a short article for The Space Review led by VJB to which anyone wishing to be listed as an author could contribute a paragraph or more of text. See https://dberleant.github.io/thesis.pdf.  READ 17 and 18.
5. Discuss: Funk and Magee 2014 - we'll pick up with section 4.

• 6. WMSCI paper update.
• 7. Plans for VJB to update us on satellite data.

2/14/20: Revisiting VJB thesis figures, etc.

Agenda

We started with items left over from the last couple of meetings.

1. VJB status
2. Re-examination: VJB thesis (updated) - Figs. 15-16. See https://dberleant.github.io/thesis.pdf.
3. PT status.
4. congratulations to MH on his successful defense!

5. AAS meeting will be F-Sa April 3-4, submissions due March 1, papers submitted by April 1. MH is considering extracting a paper from his thesis.

2/7/2020: Activities seem to be accelerating a bit...

Agenda

1. MH thesis update. 

• HA: abstract has some strong statements that are not supported later. In particular, "The traditional method to model this increase in capability has been to utilize simple linear regression to fit a curve to data and then extrapolate the trend." This needs a reference or some support within the body of the paper. 
• Figures 16 and 17 (last two in Discussion section) have no text that explains them. 
• Discuss why Figure 14 is more bell shaped than Figure 15 (first two figures in the Discussion). 
• Need to clarify where the figures in the appendix are referred to and discussed in the body of the thesis. 
• RS and HA request the powerpoints ahead of time. 
• RS: Need to retitle Appendix A since some figures and tables are not in it.

2. WMSCI paper update. Review process is still underway. There have been some wrinkles and the conference organizers are still getting it straightened out.

3. PT status update. We did not get to this.

4. Plans for VJB to update us on satellite data. We did not get to this.

5. Informational item: The AAS meeting will be F-Sa April 3-4, with submissions due March 1.