SLC Meeting
July 30, 2003
• Topics to be discussed:
• Proposal status
• Investigators: status
• Role of PI, co-PIs, and senior investigators
• Missing information
• Timeline
Frank L. H. Wolfs
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
SLC Meeting
Proposal Status
• Comments on version 1 were incorporated.
• Version 1.5 was discussed with the focus group on Monday.
• All changes, except the rewrite of the mini-grants, were
included in version 2.
• Version 2 was distributed to the working group on Tuesday.
• Comments on version 2 are due on Thursday.
• Version 3 will be distributed on Friday.
Frank L. H. Wolfs
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
SLC Meeting
Investigators
• PI/co-PIs:
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Frank Wolfs: U of R
Craig Hill: Nazareth (<- still needs to be added)
James Maddison: MCC
Susan Stites-Doe: Brockport
Timothy Wells: RIT
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Dov Almog: U of R
Mark Bocko: U of R
David Headlam: U of R
Henry Herrera: C-PREP
Thaddeus Pawlicki: U of R
• Senior Investigators (on 7/23):
• Added since 7/23:
• Betsy Brauer (Science Linkages in the Community)
• Guy Johnson (RIT)
• Dina Markowitz (LSLC, U of R)
Frank L. H. Wolfs
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
SLC Meeting
Role of the investigators.
• PI: overall responsibility for the management of the project.
• Steering Committee:
• Composed of the co-PIs and one additional representative from each
of the collaborating institutions.
• Meet with the PI on a bi-weekly basis to ensure that the catalyst effort
remains focused.
• Review the mini-grant proposals and select the proposals to be
funded.
• Advisory Committee:
• Composed of (the PI/co-PIs and) the senior investigators.
• Will provide advice and feedback when requested by the PI or the
Steering Committee.
• Will select the topics of the conferences and workshops and
participate in organizing these meetings.
• Will participate in recruiting new members of the RASLC
constituency.
Frank L. H. Wolfs
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
SLC Meeting
Proposal: Missing Items
• Proposal:
• Contribution from Nazareth for Appendix A.
• Section on the results of prior NSF support (need this information of
all PI/co-PIs for the last 5 years.
• References.
• Project summary.
• Other documentation:
• Letters of support from RIT (should arrive on Wednesday or
Thursday) and Nazareth.
• Commitment (in terms of man-months per year) for each investigator.
• Current and pending support for other projects (not just NSF).
Frank L. H. Wolfs
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
SLC Meeting
Proposal: Missing Items
• Current and pending support:
• For each investigator we need to add information about current and
pending support.
• Information required:
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Project/Proposal Title
Source of Support
Project Location
Total Award
Starting and Ending Date
Support type (current or pending)
Person-months per year committed to the project
Frank L. H. Wolfs
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
SLC Meeting
Timeline
• Wednesday 7/30:
• Regular Wednesday meeting to review new version of the proposal
and collect final comments.
• Thursday 7/31:
• Final comments due
• Proposal send of sign-off to the Dean’s office (note: budget needs to
be final, text does not have to be final).
• Friday 8/1: Final version to working group
• Monday 8/4: Final comments due
• Tuesday 8/5: Proposal submitted
• Wednesday 8/6: Start worrying about NYSTAR
Frank L. H. Wolfs
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester