Thursday, 9 am MT, 11 am ET, 23 March 2023

Logistics

NRAO Zoom 05

Agenda

  • 23B
    • SRP Meetings (Dana, Amy, Robert)
    • TAC Meetings
      • Large Proposal Meeting (Dana)
      • Regular TAC Meeting (Dana)
  • 24A
    • PST CfP Requirement Prioritization (Allie)
  • AOB

Minutes

Attending: DanaBalser, JimSheckhard, AnandCrossley, BarryClark, AnthonyRemijan, AllieCosta, AmyMioduszewski, CharlotteHausman, RobertMinchin, EmmanuelMomjian, HeidiMedlin, ToneyMinter

  • 23B
    • SRP Meetings. DanaBalser, AmyMioduszewski, and RobertMinchin reported that overall the SRP meetings went fine. One issue did arise: there are instances when SRP members argue that a large time request is a weakness. This is not valid as long as the time is scientifically justified. We agreed to (1) discuss this at the TAC meeting; and (2) include this as a bullet point to the SRP meeting introduction. EmmanuelMomjian questioned whether we had these problems before the panel review system (e.g., one person with a large voice can sway the panel). Shortly after the panel-based review system was started we analyzed how often changes were made to the initial scores. We agreed that it would be useful to redo this analysis now that we have a longer baseline.
    • TAC Meetings
      • Large Proposal Meeting. The Large proposal meeting in on Monday, 10 April 2023. JessicaBurns will send out a poll to the TAC shortly to find a time. The plan is to send information to the TAC on Tuesday, 4 April 2023. ToneyMinter, AmyMioduszewski, and RobertMinchin indicated that thus far this schedule should be okay.
      • Regular TAC Meeting. The TAC meeting will be in Green Bank on 17-18 April 2023. DanaBalser will send an email to the helpdesk about the technial setup (e.g., Zoom, etc.). Should note that we may need dongles (usb->ethernet).
  • 24A
    • PST CfP Requirement Prioritization. AllieCosta led the discussion. We agreed to the prioritized list below.
  • AOB
    • ENews Article: AllieCosta reported that an ENews article about SRP volunteers will go out in April.
    • _SRP Recruiter Meeting: AllieCosta noted that she is organizing an SRP recruiter meeting for 24A.

ID Title Days Priority Comments
SSA-7703 Change the Proposal Deadline Dates 3 High Must do.
SSA-7701 Add NICER as a Joint Facility 1 High Must do.
SSA-7739 Add text for wideband VLA recording with VLBI observations to the PST technical justification prompts 0.25 High In support of a POP goal.
SSA-7741 Add the new EVN Observation Planner as an option for VLBI sensitivity plots in the PST 0.5 High  
SSA-7740 Add warning in PST if user selects 4 Gbps for VLBA observations in L or S band 0.375 High  
SSA-2851 PST: Re-submit Feature 2.5 Medium We will create a prototype ticket. The work will therefore be spread out over two semesters.
SSA-7702 Scientific Justification Page Length: Large Proposals 1 Medium This could be delayed to next semester.
SSA-7707 PST does not correctly import velocity convention and frame from NED/SIMBAD 0.25 Medium Would be good to fix.
SSA-7686 my.nrao.edu broken link and missing interface inside Disposition Letter tab in a Proposal 0.25 Low There is a workaround.
SSA-7315 New GBT VEGAS Mode for Baseband Recording 5 TBD There is currently a workaround.
SSA-4436 Utility to allow PST users to enter additional information about their astronomical expertise and experience 4 TBD Might be good to do during the Review cutout.

-- DanaBalser - 2023-02-09
Topic revision: r4 - 2023-03-23, DanaBalser
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