https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/ 2026-04-17T07:23:41+00:00 https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/ https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/_media/wiki/dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2015-10-04T19:55:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/2014recommendations?rev=1443988548&do=diff Findings and Recommendations in the 2014 AAAC March report which founded this group FINDING: Individual investigator grants and mid-scale programs play a crucial role as a source of important new ideas (some of which become the next great discoveries, big initiatives or facilities) and as a means for training young scientists. text/html 2015-04-15T18:27:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/aas?rev=1429122433&do=diff American Astronomical Society Questions and Available Data * Our digital job register data goes back to 2003. * Our digital membership data goes back at least 10 years. * Demographic information is self-reported and not broadly consistent with federal standards of classification. text/html 2015-10-23T09:39:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/agencystats?rev=1445593173&do=diff Sharpen arguments from the Agency statistics. The [Longer report on Proposal Pressures] that was not in finished form by the March 2015 AAAC report, may be a good place to start. What are the questions not yet answered, what additional information is required to make a case. Further analysis of the proposal per year and proposal per 3 year NSF data text/html 2015-05-25T18:24:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/apr27?rev=1432578281&do=diff Agenda April 27, 2015 * Presentation by Ted Von Hippel on the article and its survey. Linked at RESOURCES * Discussion: See below. * Moving forward with Agency Statistics and Analysis. The [Longer report on Proposal Pressures] that was not in finished form by the March 2015 AAAC report, may be a good place to start. What are the questions not yet answered, what additional information is required to make a case. text/html 2015-12-11T14:27:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/dec11?rev=1449844036&do=diff Agenda for Dec 11 meeting on the new Survey * Introduction and welcome to Rachel Ivie and Susan White. - Prisca * Go over the newest version of our questions in broad strokes - Ted * [Survey - v5] * Pause for feedback from Rachel and Susan on their goals for the next survey - Rachel, Susan text/html 2014-12-20T20:46:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/dec19?rev=1419108418&do=diff Agenda for Dec 19, 2014 Demographics Committee Teleconference Administrative Details * Roll Call. Minutes by Brad Peterson AAAC March Report * [Draft Outline] for the Demographics Section of the AAAC 2015 March report Summaries of agency wiki page development text/html 2015-06-26T14:54:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/doe_cosmic_frontier?rev=1435330443&do=diff DOE Cosmic Frontier * Demographics Committee member: Prisca Cushman * Contacts: Michael Cooke (main contact), Kathy Turner, John Boger Summary of Trends and Review Experiences * Summary (Dec 2014) of the Aug2014 PI meeting talks (see resources) and my reviewer experience. text/html 2015-02-18T05:55:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/feb18?rev=1424238939&do=diff Agenda for Feb 18, 2015 Demographics Committee Teleconference Administrative Details * Roll Call. Need Minutes-taker Draft Questions for the AAS/AIP survey * [First Draft of Survey] James Lowenthal AAAC March Report * [Draft Text] for the Demographics Section of the AAAC 2015 March report text/html 2015-10-16T16:15:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/feedback?rev=1445012117&do=diff Model for moving Forward There is a new model as we move forward. The current AAAC committee will take our draft report and use it to craft an AAAC report that will be included in the 2016 March Report. The AAAC report will be distributed to Congress, and as such will have to follow their guidelines with findings and recommendations. Some of our language will have to be changed - for example (in the 3rd to last paragraph): text/html 2015-01-14T21:56:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/jan14?rev=1421272591&do=diff Agenda for Jan 14, 2015 Demographics Committee Teleconference Administrative Details * Roll Call. Need Minutes-taker AAAC March Report * [Draft Outline] for the Demographics Section of the AAAC 2015 March report * [More Detailed Draft.] Start writing “The Problem” part of the draft text/html 2015-07-09T19:47:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/jul9?rev=1436471263&do=diff Agenda July 9, 2015 White Paper * Newest draft version [docx with tracking] and [clean pdf] * Need help from Ted interpreting his data. Can we ask for a bit more detail and report page references. What does quoting 2 numbers mean? Can we use one average number? There is some mushiness in time cost and paper cost distinctions. Define opportunity cost. Do we have a way to get the Matthew effect for 35%? More details on the aspirational 35% number. (or should it be 30%?) text/html 2015-05-26T19:09:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/may26?rev=1432667345&do=diff Agenda May 26, 2015 Work Plan * Prepare a short paper outline which could be done by -- insert date -- (determined by mid-decadal planning schedule) (Keivan) * From Paul Hertz: The mid-decade review committee should be announced soon. They will be starting their work in June 2015 and delivering their report by the end of April 2016. text/html 2014-12-19T18:43:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/nasa_astrophysics?rev=1419014581&do=diff NASA Astrophysics * Demographics Committee member: Brad Peterson, Keivan Stassun * Contacts: Linda Sparke, Glenn Wahlgren Funding Policies and Philosophy NASA funding is generally, but not entirely, mission-specific. NASA supports all types of organizations: domestic and foreign (on a no-exchange-of-funds basis), government and private, for-profit and not-for-profit.$100k to $ text/html 2015-11-12T11:23:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/nasa_heliophysics?rev=1447327411&do=diff NASA Heliophysics * Demographics Committee member: Todd Hoeksema * Contacts: Arik Posner Overall Funding Structure NASA published the funding numbers in the slide in the Heliophysics section of the general NASA 2014 ROSES announcement, so that is our source. There was an update for 2015 in the most recent ROSES, I believe. It covers all of the Heliophysics competed research and analysis programs. text/html 2014-11-07T16:23:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/nasa_planetary?rev=1415377416&do=diff NASA Planets * Demographics Committee member: James Buckley * Contacts: Jonathan Rall Funding Policies and Philosophy NASA's Planetary Science Division funds research grants generally tied to missions, past, current, or future. A significant fraction of the total Research & Analysis (R&A) funding, ~10-15% is designated for science instrument development with the majority of the funding available for fundamental research, sample analysis, modeling, and data analysis. NASA supports all type… text/html 2015-10-23T18:49:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/newsurvey?rev=1445626154&do=diff Sample questions that go beyond the Von Hippel Survey 1. (Prisca) Questions which try to access community response to possible "solutions" Answer these questions with a scale: strongly agree <--> neutral <--> strongly disagree) * How would the following actions by the funding agencies affect you? text/html 2014-11-07T12:56:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/nov7?rev=1415364992&do=diff Agenda for Nov 7, 2014 Demographics Committee Teleconference Administrative Details * Roll Call & Minutes assignment * Approve Minutes from last time Reports from each agency-specific working page * Prisca: DOE Cosmic Frontier * Brad: NASA Astrophysics text/html 2014-11-21T12:24:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/nsf_astronomy?rev=1416572646&do=diff NSF Astronomy * Demographics Committee member: James Lowenthal * Contacts: NSF AST Division (703-292-8820): Jim Ulvestad and Daniel Evans (Data). For specific business related to the CAA OIR System Committee, please contact Vern Pankonin (vpankoni@nsf.gov). For specific business related to CORF meetings, contact Tom Gergely (tgergely@nsf.gov) or Glen Langston (glangsto@nsf.gov)$236M/$$246M/$$17.1M/$$93K/$ text/html 2015-03-03T14:56:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/nsf_particle_astrophysics?rev=1425394600&do=diff NSF PHYS Particle Astrophysics * Demographics Committee member: Angela Olinto (UChicago) * Contacts: Jim Whitmore (NSF-PHYS-PA) Funding Policies and Philosophy The PHY division has recently issued a solicitation (14-576): This division-wide solicitation replaces an annual Dear Colleague Letter (the most recent version is NSF12-068). The solicitation follows most of the requirements in the Grant Proposal Guide, but has additional requirements listed below. These relate primarily to propose… text/html 2015-10-02T19:05:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/oct2?rev=1443812747&do=diff Agenda Oct 2, 2015 White Paper * Interim Paper is posted on NSF AAAC Website AAAC Nov 12-13 Meeting Agenda A unified story line - including perhaps a bank of slides to pass around. A. Todd can report on his talk (I sent him some slides) B. How did it go and how can we exploit this opportunity we have C. More participants? D. List of where the talks are and who is doing what. text/html 2015-10-09T00:40:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/oct9?rev=1444351227&do=diff * Timeline for the Survey? * Develop/discuss initial list of questions * Prioritizing questions and refining the list? * Adding Survey expertise * Target publishing venue? * Tasks & Next Steps text/html 2014-10-23T18:24:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/oct23?rev=1414088652&do=diff Agenda for Oct 23, 2014 Demographics Committee Teleconference Administrative Details * Roll Call & Minutes assignment * Outstanding issue from the last minutes (Tom? Geoff Marcy? ) Review Mission Statement Wiki Discussion * explanation of format text/html 2014-10-29T20:19:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/questions?rev=1414613988&do=diff Back to AAAC Demographics Start page General Data we need (over the last 10 years) * Who is writing the proposals? * PI position: e.g. postdoc, assist. Prof, assoc. Prof, tenured faculty, research faculty, Gender, race/ethnicity, geographical location, size of institution text/html 2015-05-25T18:55:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/resources?rev=1432580149&do=diff Back to AAAC Demographics Start page RESOURCES * AAS Executive Office can help (Joel Parriott): For example, it could be that answering some of the demographic questions will require the assistance of department chairs (astro and physics), possibly funding an AIP survey of those chairs to as high of a completion rate as possible. (Should arms need twisting, the AAS is also hosting its bi-annual astro department chairs meeting on November 1st in Chicago.) text/html 2015-10-06T21:20:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/slidespage?rev=1444166430&do=diff Talks Given in 2015 * Prisca Cushman, Presentation to the March 17 NASA APS Meeting (based on Demographics section of the March AAAC report) [Powerpoint Slides] * Presentation to NASA Heliophysics (HPS), Sept. 30 (Todd Hoeksema): [Powerpoint Slides] * Keivan Stassun, Presentation to NASA Planetary Science, Oct 05, 2015 (Keivan Stassun): text/html 2014-10-04T12:08:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/!lowrad/aaac/solutions?rev=1412424487&do=diff Solution 0: No change * What is the effect of reduced funding for individual research grants (relative to the overall funding profile)? * What do we expect to happen if the current trend continues unchecked? * Does it represent healthy competition and improve proposal quality?