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| A Task Force was established in 2013 to examine just this issue. | A Task Force was established in 2013 to examine just this issue. | ||
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| Dmitri, Prisca, and Bob met with Patti McBride who served on the Task Force in order to understand the background to the findings and what the APS reaction was to the Task Force recommendations. A summary of our discussion can be found here: {{: | Dmitri, Prisca, and Bob met with Patti McBride who served on the Task Force in order to understand the background to the findings and what the APS reaction was to the Task Force recommendations. A summary of our discussion can be found here: {{: | ||
| ==== Comments on the Task Force Report ==== | ==== Comments on the Task Force Report ==== | ||
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| * (Sheldon) Have contacts in the relevant experiments generate interest by scheduling many >20 min invited talks. Try and make these talks general covering several experiments. | * (Sheldon) Have contacts in the relevant experiments generate interest by scheduling many >20 min invited talks. Try and make these talks general covering several experiments. | ||
| * (Sheldon) Registration cost is too high (is this connected to the venue?) | * (Sheldon) Registration cost is too high (is this connected to the venue?) | ||
| + | * (Matthew) perhaps also anathema! Discourage collaborations from sending 15 students to give separate talks on teeny-tiny aspects of large experiment (my own did this: LZ/LUX) and instead encourage 1 talk by senior graduate student or postdoc or even faculty (invited?)? This would address massively parallel problem, because perhaps would end sessions that are the same people talking to each other. | ||
| * Can we promote better and more poster sessions? Food! Possibly special registration rates? Incentives? | * Can we promote better and more poster sessions? Food! Possibly special registration rates? Incentives? | ||
| * Reject abstracts (is this anathema?) - have a quota and the rest go to posters. | * Reject abstracts (is this anathema?) - have a quota and the rest go to posters. | ||
| * Encourage specific fields that have NOT been sending representatives | * Encourage specific fields that have NOT been sending representatives | ||
| * Please write down which fields are under-represented at the April meeting here. | * Please write down which fields are under-represented at the April meeting here. | ||
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| ==== Encourage undergraduate attendance ==== | ==== Encourage undergraduate attendance ==== | ||
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| * Provide a forum for undergraduate talks. | * Provide a forum for undergraduate talks. | ||
| * SPS provides funding for travel. | * SPS provides funding for travel. | ||
| + | * If we really want undergraduate attendance we shouldn' | ||
| ==== Mentoring and career building advice for graduate students and young researchers ==== | ==== Mentoring and career building advice for graduate students and young researchers ==== | ||
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| * Feature talks across divisions. | * Feature talks across divisions. | ||
| * (Prisca) Can we do this really early? | * (Prisca) Can we do this really early? | ||
| + | * (Matthew) lots of confusion currently, where for example my collaborators on LUX/LZ send some abstracts to DPF, others to DAP or DNP even. | ||
| * Publicize and encourage attendance at the " | * Publicize and encourage attendance at the " | ||
| * Can we come up with practical strategies for that? | * Can we come up with practical strategies for that? | ||
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| * (Prisca) Coordinate this with SNOWMASS planning (at business meeting ? | * (Prisca) Coordinate this with SNOWMASS planning (at business meeting ? | ||
| * Mental Health issues and Work-Family balance | * Mental Health issues and Work-Family balance | ||
| - | * Forming healthy and efficient large collaborations | + | * Forming healthy and efficient large collaborations |
| * Connections to the on-going Congressional Visits by FNAL and SLAC and others. Possibly tutorials in approaching senators - might already exist in general - we could have a HEP specific session after the more general APS one. | * Connections to the on-going Congressional Visits by FNAL and SLAC and others. Possibly tutorials in approaching senators - might already exist in general - we could have a HEP specific session after the more general APS one. | ||
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| * Learn from the Plasma Physics people [[http:// | * Learn from the Plasma Physics people [[http:// | ||
| * Link to the overall theme of the meeting. | * Link to the overall theme of the meeting. | ||
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| + | ==== Moving Forward ==== | ||
| + | Schedules of the new April Meeting format are to be found at [[dpf:April Draft|dpf: | ||
| + | The Discussion on April 16 centered on the last slide of the presentation. | ||
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| + | (a) Providing a forum for undergraduate talks specific to DPF. The forum could be led by someone in one of the teaching universities. | ||
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| + | (b) Mentoring and career building advice for graduate students and young researchers is very important and we should strengthen this with forums and panels. | ||
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| + | (c) Better connections by DPF to existing APS programs | ||
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| + | (d) Capitalize on the broad representation across many divisions by better coordination on joint sessions. | ||
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| + | (e) Updates from the Funding Agencies. PI meetings. | ||
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| + | (f) Liven up the massively parallel agenda. | ||
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| + | (g) Better connection to the locale – resources and public outreach (Prisca Cushman, Bertrand Echenard, Bob Bernstein) | ||
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| + | * Other categories? | ||