Activities of the Science Steering Committee

 

Next Scheduled Meeting: 

tbd

Activities will be posted approximately 1 week after each meeting.

Previous Meetings

27 October 2021

Present: Sylvain Barbot, Ebru Bozdag, Bruce Buffet,  Katie Cooper, Juliane Dannberg, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, John Naliboff, and Cian Wilson

Absent: Krista Soderlund

 Action Items:

• Discussed and recommended to the EC the formation of a new WG on Seismic Cycles

Discussion Items:

• Discussed Business Meeting agenda.

27 September 2021

Present: Sylvain Barbot, Ebru Bozdag, Bruce Buffet, Juliane Dannberg, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, John Naliboff, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Absent:  Katie Cooper

Discussion Items:

• Received CIG IV update
• Discussed Business Meeting Agenda and Discussion Items. Considered extending the meeting beyond 1hour and having break-out sessions.
• Discussed initiating discussions with leaders/organizers of initiatives/organizations on engagement opportunities.

8 June 2021

Present:  Katie Cooper, Juliane Dannberg, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, John Naliboff, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Absent: Sylvain Barbot, Ebru Bozdag, and Min Chen

Action Items:

• Discussed and approved additional funds to Princeton to prepare AVNI for release
• Deadline to review document roles of Executive Committee, Science Steering Committee, and Working Groups is June 21

17-18 May 2021

Present: Sylvain Barbot, Ebru Bozdag, Katie Cooper, Juliane Dannberg, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, John Naliboff, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Absent: Min Chen

Presentations:

• Comparison of bylaws, proposal, and practice
• CIG IV proposal update

Action Items:

• Developed roles and responsibilities of the committees of the organization: EC, SSC, and Working Groups
• Working Groups will have term limits

31 March 2021

Present: Sylvain Barbot, Ebru Bozdag, Min Chen, Juliane Dannberg, Lorraine Hwang, John Naliboff, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Absent: Katie Cooper, Scott King

Informational:

• CIG has an open job announcement for postdocs. We will be sending out reminders to the community.

Actions:

• SSC members (3) will be reviewing the applications for the SMOREs program.
• Began discussions on future Governance.  The group will work on defining the essential roles, gaps, and specific actions needed before the next meeting.

Discussions:

• A program that teaching computational modeling should include opportunities for networking and creating research outcomes. Advanced computational training could be combined with other programs.

12 February 2021

Present: Sylvain Barbot, Ebru Bozdag, Min Chen, Katie Cooper, Juliane Dannberg, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, John Naliboff, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Actions:

• Approved vice Chair will serve 2 years, the 2nd year as Chair. Hence going forward, only a vice Chair will be elected annually by the voting members of the EC.
• Juliane Dannberg elected as Vice Chair.

Discussions:

• Postdoctoral Fellow program and feedback on fellowship applications.
• Initiated discussions on subawards and governance changes.

17 September 2020

Present:  Ebru Bozdag, Juliane Dannberg, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, Jessica Irving, Gabriele Morra, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Joint discussions with EC summarizing meetings with subawardees.

12-13 May 2020

Present: Ebru Bozdag, Juliane Dannberg, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, Jessica Irving, Gabriele Morra, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Joint with EC

Discussed:

• CIG I-III Review
• Assessing current status of CIG - science, software, governance, and outreach
• Invited:  Steven Whitmeyer, NSF GI Program Director

23 April 2020

Present: Juliane Dannberg, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, Louis Moresi,  Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Absent:  Ebru Bozdag, Jessica Irving, and Gabriele Morra

• Updates:  Post Doc search, Speaker Series, upcoming workshops
• Review: Joint meeting agenda

17 March 2020

Present: Ebru Bozdag, Juliane Dannberg, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, Jessica Irving, Gabriele Morra, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Absent:  Louis Moresi

Discussions:

• Postdoc applications. 
• COVID 19 response. Sharing educational resources; asynchronous learning and virtual discussions.
• Joint EC-SSC Meeting - May 2020
• Software Donation Checklist
• Privacy Policy

31 January 2020

Present: Juliane Dannberg, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, Jessica Irving, Louis Moresi, Gabriele Morra, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Absent: Ebru Bozdag and David Ham

Actions:

• Elected Chair: Scott King

Discussion:

• Postdoc applications.  Update on search and review process.
• Metrics. HQ will work on gathering and/or data discussed.
• SSC Meeting in May. Possible joint or overlapping with EC.
• Community Meeting in Fall. Early identification of possible topics necessary to ensure the right people are at the meeting.
• Work plan for 2020 and HQ activities.

29 October 2019

Present: Brad Aagaard, Ebru Bozdag, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Jessica Irving, Louis Moresi, Gabriele Morra, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Absent: John Rudge

Informational:

• Summary of EC activities
• Update on 2020 events. Gather input at each for feedback for CIG IV.

Discussed:

• Feedback from SSC on postdoctoral positions.
• Metrics. Increasing diversity and EU privacy policies.
• AGU Business Meeting. Gathering information from Working Groups and Developers.
• SSC In-person meeting May (tentative).

20 August 2019

Present: Brad Aagaard, Magali Billen, Ebru Bozdag, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Jessica Irving, Louis Moresi, Gabriele Morra, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Absent: John Rudge

Informational:

• Summary of June EC Meeting
• Activity summary CIG Annual Report

Discussed:

• Annual Report
• Assessing current activity of Working Groups and software projects
• Holding an in-person meeting this Fall.

14 May 2019

Present: Brad Aagaard, Magali Billen, Ebru Bozdag, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Louis Moresi, Krista Soderlund, and Cian Wilson

Absent: Jessica Irving, Gabriele Morra, and John Rudge

Discussion:

• CIG self-assessment

Previous meetings: 

01 February 2019

Present: Brad Aagaard, Ebru Bozdag, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Jessica Irving, Louise Kellogg, Louis Moresi, Gabriele Morra, John Rudge, Krista Soderlund, and Cian WIlson

Actions:

• Elect chair: Brad Aagaard
• Elect vice chair: Cian WIlson

Informational:

• Upcoming Workshops and CIG Activities

09 November 2018

Present: Brad Aagaard, Katie Cooper, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Jessica Irving, Boris Kaus, Louise Kellogg, Louis Moresi, Gabriele Morra, and John Rudge

Absent: Sabine Stanley

Informational:

• Discussion forum has launched
• AGU Business meeting - new time and date

Discussed:

• Donation of CitcomSVE
• Collaborations with AuScope
• Creating Speaker Series Committee
• Renaming the Geodynamo Working Group

24 September 2018

Present: Brad Aagaard, Katie Cooper, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Boris Kaus, Louise Kellogg, Louis Moresi, Gabriele Morra, and John Rudge

Absent: Jessica Irving and Sabine Stanley

Informational:

• CIG's participation in Frontera at TACC
• Rayleigh Hackathon highlights
• 2015 CTSP Workshop white paper available

Discussed:

• Nominations for election
• New Education Working Group
• Reforming Working Groups and term limits
• Moving from a mailing list to a forum. A new platform is in testing.

7 May 2018

Present:
Absent: 

Informational:

Discussed:

23 February 2018

Present: Brad Aagaard,  Katie Cooper, David Ham, Lorraine Hwang, Boris Kaus, Louise Kellogg, Louis Moresi. Gabriele Morra, and John Rudge
Absent: Jessica Irving and Sabine Stanley

Informational:

• Code of Conduct as approved by EC
• Bylaws update in progress

Discussed:

• Upcoming meetings in 2018
• Refreshing Speaker Seiries
• Community HPC needs
• CIG Developer conference
• Identifying grand challenges in computational geodynamcis

1 December 2017

Present: Brad Aagaard, Jed Brown, Katie Cooper, Lorraine Hwang, Boris Kaus, Louise Kellogg, David May, Sabine Stanley and Carl Tape

Discussed:

• Upcoming CGU meeting
• Community input for visioning document for research opportunities in computational geodynamics

2 November 2017

Present: Brad Aagaard,  Jed Brown, Katie Cooper, Boris Kaus, Louise Kellogg, Sabine Stanley and Carl Tape
Absent: David May

Discussed:

• IRIS HPCWG proposal for CIG leadership on meeting community HPC needs
• Code of Conduct for CIG
• Upcoming Meetings and Workshop: AGU Business Meeting, CTSP, joint CGU meeting

04 May 2017

Present: Brad Aagaard,  Jed Brown, Katie Cooper, Boris Kaus, Louise Kellogg, and Sabine Stanley
Absent: David May and  Carl Tape

The meeting discussed:

• Speaker Series nominations. A rank ordered list was developed pending further nominations.
• Add on events.  Discussed criteria for funding events that leverage existing meetings.  

02 March 2017

Present: Brad Aagaard,  Jed Brown, Katie Cooper, Boris Kaus, Louise Kellogg, David May, Sabine Stanley, and Carl Tape

The meeting further discussed:

• Long term scheduling of CIG meetings - working group and organizational wide
• Implementation of and criteria for a CIG Distinguished Speaker series

02 February 2017

Present:  Brad Aagaard,  Jed Brown, Katie Cooper,  Lorraine Hwang, Boris Kaus, Louise Kellogg, David May, John Rudge, Sabine Stanley, and Carl Tape

The meeting focused on:

• Election of new chair - Katie Cooper
• Working Group membership, terms for members and participation of governance members
• Long term scheduling of CIG meetings - working group and organizational wide
• Criteria for a CIG Distinguished Speaker series

21 November 2016

Present:
           Brad Aagaard, Tim Ahern, Carl Tape, Jed Brown, Katie Cooper,  Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellogg, and Sabine Stanley

Absent:
           Bruce Buffet, Boris Kaus, and David May

The meeting focused on:

• Discussion of CIG ‘16
• Updates to Training Best Practices
• Add timelines for tutorial preparation
• delivery modes, clusters, VM, and docker
• add something about how to contribute to developer community
• continuous integration testing (best development practices)
• What issues to be addressed in 2016
• Working Groups - establish terms and cycle for workshops

18 March 2016

Present:

Brad Aagaard, Tim Ahern, Jed Brown, Katie Cooper, Lorraine Hwang, Louise Kellog, Sabine Stanley, Carl Tape

Absent:

Boris Kaus, Dave May

The meeting focused on:

• Software Training (Tutorial) Best Practices
  • Will be distributed to EC and CIG16 tutorial leaders for their info and feedback.
  • Brad will create a best_practices repository in GitHub to manage feedback and versioning.
• CIG '16
  • Organizing committee is meeting weekly and finalizing the agenda and speakers.
  • Agenda has 2 poster sessions with lightning talks immediately preceding them.

2 February 2016

Present:

Brad Aagaard, Tim Ahern, Jed Brown, Katie Cooper, Boris Kaus, Sabine Stanley, Carl Tape

Absent:

Dave May

The meeting focused on:

• 2016 SSC
  • New members: Katie Cooper, Boris Kaus, and Sabine Stanley
  • Continuing members: Brad Aagaard, Tim Ahern, Jed Brown, Carl Tape, David May
  • Brad agreed to continue as chair for the time being
• CIG-2016 Meeting, UC Davis, June 17-24, 2016
  • 2.5 day plenary meeting similar to IRIS, UNAVCO, COMPRESS
  • Tutorials before/after scheduled so that people would not likely attend tutorials before and after
  • Lodging in dorms and meals in dining halls
  • Collecting list of names for speakers
  • Formed program committee with volunteers from SSC and EC
    • CIG: Louise Kellogg and Lorraine Hwang
    • SSC: Brad Aagaard
    • EC: Omar Ghattas and Louis Moresi
• Tutorial best practices
• Brad is revising initial draft
• Will distribute updated draft to SSC by the end of Feb

 

 

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