Agenda for SDSS Collaboration Council

Next telecon: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 11:15am-12:15pm EDT, 15:15 UT
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Agenda items:

• External collaborator request by Michael Strauss et al., for Jeff Blackburne, for co-authorship on gravitational lensing paper. See here.
• External collaborator request by Jennifer Johnson, for Jennifer Marshall, for project on M dwarf metallicities. See here.
• External collaborator request by John Marriner and Rick Kessler, for Steve Kuhlmann, Joe Bernstein, and Hal Spinka, for participation in light-curve analysis of the SDSS supernova data set. See here.
• External collaborator request by Bruce Bassett et al., for Renee Hlozek and Martin Kunz, for application of Bayesian estimation formalism to photometric supernova data set. See here. This was just posted Aug 13 and sent only to CoCo, so we won't vote, but we can discuss any feedback we might want to give to the proposers.

Agenda Items From Previous Telecons

• Access permission for external members of SEGUE calibration team see here.
• External collaborator request for Andrew West for galaxy work, see here.
• Observers and the revised publication policy. see here and here.
• GRB data release, see here.
• Start thinking about DR5 paper.

12/7/05 telecon:

• Release of photometric standards for stripe 82. See here, here, here, and here, for the relevant email thread.
• March SEGUE meeting, see here.
• March Collaboration meeting.

12/21/05 telecon:

• Continuing external collaborator status for Gary Schmidt, see here.
• Draft brochure for distribution at AAS meeting, see here. I still anticipate some significant changes, but broad feedback would be useful.
• Further discussion of March Collaboration meeting. Salman Habib's draft schedule and notes based on our last telecon discussion are here. Also, see earlier emails about an EPO session and about white papers to get a head start on the post-2008 discussion.
• Technical references/acknowledgment on short papers.
• Smoothly integrating science activities of new and old partners. See here. I would like to defer this discussion to the new year, since it is a broad topic that we want to have sufficient time to address well.

1/25/06 telecon:

• More plans for Santa Fe. See minutes above.
• Smoothly integrating science activities of new and old partners. See here. As a major part of this discussion, I'd like to discuss how we make the projects page more used and more useful.

2/8/06 telecon:

• 2SLAQ LRG evolution paper. Any issues we need to settle? See here.
• Update on speaker list for Santa Fe.
• Reminder: Encourage your colleagues to think about post-2008 plans and submit white papers if they wish to do so. See here.
• Reminder: Encourage your colleagues to submit plots for sdss.org. See here.
• Smoothly integrating science activities of new and old partners. See here. As a major part of this discussion, I'd like to discuss how we make the projects page more used and more useful.

3/1/06 telecon:

• The current, near-final draft of the Santa Fe schedule is here. We'll start with a discussion of the supernova session, see here for Josh's notes.
• From the email votes, it looks like we are near consensus on approving the following external collaborator requests, but we will bring them up for any final discussion:
  • Pat McDonald.
  • Tim Beers.
  • Matthias Schreiber.
  • Jeff Pier.
• I have collected the white papers that have been submitted for post-2008 SDSS plans here. We should discuss how the 2-hour session on SDSS futures at the Santa Fe meeting should be organized, plus any more general comments people have at this stage on post-2008 planning.
• Any other items related to Santa Fe?
• Time permitting, let's return to our discussion of project posting and communication, summarized in the minutes of the last meeting. Which of these ideas would we like to implement, and are there ideas to be added to the list?

3/15/06 telecon:

• EC request by Heather Morrison. See here and here.

4/12/06 telecon:

• EC request by Connie Rockosi et al. for James Clem, see here. We will discuss any issues related to this but will hold a vote until it has been posted for two weeks, in case there is further input from the collaboration.
• Dan Zucker's request for expedited consideration of Paper 634, see here.
• Proposed guideline on sensitive data in publication index, see here..
• Proposed policy on updating of references on publication index, see here..

5/3/06 telecon

• EC request from Heidi Newberg et al. on behalf of Bruce Carney, John Laird, John Morse, and David Delgado, see here. We will discuss any issues related to this but will hold a vote until it has been posted for two weeks, in case there is further input from the collaboration.
• Heather Morrison's request to be allowed to work with Case Western undergraduates on the K-giant projects for which she is an external collaborator.
• Peregrine McGehee's request to give access to the run 4874 imaging and photo outputs to Colin Aspin for work on V1647 Orionis, see here.
• Should require acceptance to the journal for press releases tied to journal articles? We'll have an initial discussion of this issue, with follow-up sometime when Don Schneider can join.

6/21/06 Telecon

• Brief report from the AAS Calgary meeting.
• Publication policy for ASEPS, see here.
• Should there be a special category of publications for investigations carried out with non-public data that in the end use only public data, specifically with regard to the minimal posting period? See Dan Zucker's message here.
• External collaborator request for Dufour and Bergeron, see here. This hasn't been posted to sdss-general yet, so we won't take a vote, but we should identify any issues and convey them to Jill Knapp and co.
• Science topics and speakers for the Seoul collaboration meeting. If you won't attend the telecon but know of exciting results or people you think should talk at the meeting, please send your suggestions by email. Ditto on suggestions for an outside speaker. I know it is difficult for our Asian CoCo reps to make telecons at this time, but I STRONGLY encourage you to suggest speakers and topics by email.

7/12/06 telecon

• Continuing external collaborator request from Masamune Oguri, who is moving from a Princeton postdoc to KIPAC (Stanford/SLAC), for work on gravitationally lensed quasars and giant arcs. See here.
• External collaborator request for Malik Magdon-Ismail of RPI, submitted by Heidi Newberg and Brian Yanny, for work on detecting substructure in the stellar spheroid. See here. This has only been on sdss-general for a week, so we won't take a vote, but we should identify any issues and convey them to Heidi and Brian.
• Speakers for Seoul meeting. See here.
• What do we do about technical references for journals that severely restrict the total number of references? The particular case in question at the moment involves Nature.
• Briefly revisit this item from last time: Should there be a special category of publications for investigations carried out with non-public data that in the end use only public data, specifically with regard to the minimal posting period? See Dan Zucker's message here. There seems to be a fairly widespread feeling that we should just treat these cases as papers based on public data, perhaps with some encouragement to invite widespread participation. If people agree with this, then I'll write some words and we can put it to a formal vote.

8/30/06 telecon

• Program for Korea meeting. See here.
• External collaborator request from Holland Ford for Leslie Hebb and Larry Petro, on planetary transit searches. See here.
• External collaborator request from Cheng Li for Xi Kang on comparisons of galaxy clustering to semi-analytic models. here.

10/20/06 telecon

• External collaborator request from Renyue Cen for Kentaro Nagamine, see here. I think this is straightforward and we are pretty much ready to vote.
• Brief status update on post-2008 planning.
• Plans for the Seattle AAS meeting. Should we have a half-day SDSS get-together the day before the AAS starts (i.e., on Saturday, Jan 6)?
• Location of the next collaboration meeting.

11/3/06 telecon

• Location of spring collaboration meeting. It looks like Drexel has the rooms it needs to host the meeting, and Fermilab has gracefully conceded the spot, so I think we just need to ratify Drexel as the location.
• Location of fall collaboration meeting. Fermilab could host this, but we should see if any European institutions are interested.
• AAS Seattle meeting. I'll update you on current thoughts about press releases, the SDSS booth, presentations on data access.
• Post-2008 plans. By the end of Friday, I expect to send you the report of the committee that evaluated the proposals for post-2008 uses of the SDSS facilities. I'll give an overview of the report at the telecon.

12/1/06 telecon

• External collaborator request by Xiaohui Fan for Emma Ryan-Weber and Max Pettini, see here.
• External collaborator request by Matthias Schreiber for Boris Gaensicke, see here. Since neither of these has been up for two weeks yet, we won't vote, but we'll discuss any issues related to them.
• External speaker for Drexel collaboration meeting. We should come up with a list that we can vote on in a few days. Drexel has interest in an LSST speaker, for which Tony Tyson is an obvious choice but there are many alternatives. An idea that we considered but didn't pursue for Santa Fe was someone on Galactic structure, perhaps James Binney or James Bullock or Kathryn Johnston. Another possibility is a large scale structure person from 2dF, such as John Peacock or Shaun Cole. If you can't attend the telecon but have sugggestions, please send them by email.
• Last call for institutions interested in hosting the fall collaboration meeting! Fermilab has volunteered and is the default; so far I haven't heard interest from others. Cambridge? MPA?
• Brief update on the status of post-2008 planning.

12/13/06 telecon

• We'll briefly review the external collaborator requests from the last telecon to see if there are any remaining issues, and will vote on approval. See here for Ryan-Webber/Pettini and here for Gaensicke.
• We'll discuss the recently posted proposal by Albert Stebbins for Proty Wu. Thanks to those who have already sent comments. It seems clear that we will at the very least want to send this back for greater clarification. See here.
• We'll also have an initial discussion of the recently posted proposal by Eric Bell for Sanjib Sharma, James Bullock, and Kathryn Johnston, see here.
• We'll try to settle on a ranked list of choices for the external speaker for the Drexel collaboration meeting.
• I have had rather limited response so far on people wanting to talk at the pre-AAS mini-meeting. I don't know that there is much for CoCo to do here, but I welcome any input.

2/14/07 telecon

• External collaborator request by Bob Nichol for a substantial number of ESO scientists participating in SDSS-II supernova spectroscopic follow-up, see here. This is a complex request; please try to read it before the telecon. We'll hear from Bob and have some discussion but not vote, as I think we will want to solicit feedback from members of the supernova team.
• Vote on the proposal by Eric Bell for Sanjib Sharma, James Bullock, and Kathryn Johnston, see here. We discussed this previously, and I think we are now ready to vote. If you aren't attending the phonecon and want to register an opinion, send e-mail.
• Daniel's proposed invitation of interested AS2 members to attend part/all of the Drexel collaboration meeting. See here. We should also discuss how much time in the Drexel meeting to devote to AS2, and when to do it.
• Speaker list for Drexel. I'll send e-mail with all the suggestions I have received so far. We'll have some discussion of pros and cons, put in any additional suggestions, and then I'll send around a list for you to rank your choices. Last chance to get in suggestions. See here.

5/2/07 telecon

• External collaborator request by Bob Nichol for ESO scientists participating in SDSS-II supernova spectroscopic follow-up, see here. We discussed this extensively at our previous telecon but didn't take a vote because we wanted Bob to post the projects and to give time for any additional feedback. The tenor of the previous discussion was positive (see minutes) and there have been no objections, so I have been taking this as essentially approved, but we should allow for any final comments and take a vote.
• External collaborator request by Connie Rockosi, for David Lai and Mike Bolte, for Keck/ESI studies of low metallicity candidate stars from SEGUE. See here. Tim Beers sent a (short) e-mail endorsement of this propsal on March 5, saying that the magnitude range is out of reach of the other telescopes currently being used for high-res follow-up.
• External collaborator request by Michael Strauss et al., for Robert Becker and Rick White, for Keck follow-up observations of gravitational lens candidates. See here.
• External collaborator request by Tim Beers for Anna Frebel, Chris Sneden, Matthew Shetrone, Volker Bromm, and Jay Rhee, for follow-up of SEGUE stars with HET. See here.
• External collaborator request by Siegfried Roeser et al., for Nina Kharchenko and Anatoly Piskunov, for work related to SEGUE Open Cluster Survey. See here.

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  8/10/07 telecon

  • EC request by Don Schneider for Ohad Shemmer, for Chandra analysis of weak-lined quasars, see here.
  • EC request by Douglas Tucker for Ernst Pauzen and Martin Netopil, for work on SOCS, here.
  • External collaborator request by Siegfried Roeser et al., for Nina Kharchenko and Anatoly Piskunov, for work related to SEGUE Open Cluster Survey. See here. We discussed this at our last telecon and asked Roeser for additional information about the collaborators, which is here.
  • Somewhat chaotic request by Don York for EC status for Peletier, van Woerden, and Schwartz for co-authorship on high velocity cloud paper, see here and here here.
  • Fall Collaboration meeting, see my notes here.
  • Southern co-add, see here.

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  9/10/07 telecon

  • EC request by Hugh Harris, for Legget and Bergeron, see here.
  • Agenda and speakers for the November 1-4 Collaboration Meeting.
  • Initial discussion of an SDSS Symposium for summer, 2008, celebrating science accomplishments of SDSS and looking to the future. First task: finding a host institution.

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  9/28/07 telecon

  • Agenda and speakers for the November 1-4 Collaboration Meeting. See here.

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  10/8/07 telecon

  • Update on the November 1-4 Collaboration Meeting. See here.
  • Topic list, general format, and (mainly) potential external speakers for SDSS symposium next August. See here.

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  11/14/07 telecon

  • Timing and location of the spring/summer collaboration meeting.
  • Plans for the SDSS symposium next August, especially external speaker invitations. See here. For the working topic list and general format, see here.

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    2/13/08 telecon

    • Discussion of internal invited speakers for August symposium, to be followed by e-mail ranking vote. To review the current list of "nominees," see here.
    • EC request by Coryn Bailer-Jones for Paola Re Fiorentin. See here.
    • EC request by David Spergel for Raul Jimenez, Licia Verde, Felipe Meneteau, and Jack Hughes. See here.
    • EC request by Andrew Becker for Andy Puckett. See here.

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    5/1/08 telecon

    • Discussion of August Symposium. Items for discussion are: banquet speaker, director's perspectives talks, other aspects of the draft schedule, permanent record (posting talks, proceedings), press strategy, student travel funding priorities. See here and here.

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    6/17/08 Telecon

    • Student travel grants for August Symposium. See here.
    • Main item: contributed talks and schedule for August Symposium. See here.

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