Transcript POPS#11

http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=ESACFACULTY
ESAC
FACULTY
FIFTH ASSEMBLY
15 November 2007
SENTINEL
VIEWGRAPHS
THEME
ONE YEAR ON
YOU HAVE TO SPEND THE MONEY
AGENDA
1.
Sixth ESAC Faculty Jamboree
2.
History (and status of membership)
3.
Faculty operation (incl. RF matters, offices, Faculty web ...)
4.
Update on funded programmes
5.
The recent call for Departmental Research Proposals
6.
The Advisory Committee for Research
7.
Faculty results
• 20%/50% Status
• collaborations in the Faculty
• papers & other products from visits (acknowledgement)
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8.
AOB
the Terminator
CHANCE TO MEET TO OUR
VISITORS
WELCOME
Igor Telezhinski
Kiev
Dmytro Iakubovskyi
Kiev
Dr. Ryszard Szczerba
N. Copernicus Centre
HISTORY
(and status of membership)
RECALLING: FACULTY: PURPOSE &
MEMBERSHIP
Mission Statement:
To foster a (more) effective scientific environment at ESAC
To give a united face to the scientific work
Who constitute the Faculty:
All active (i.e. publishing papers) research scientists at ESAC:
ESA staff, RFs, Science Contractors and LAEFF researchers.
There are now 90 in this category
(but remember average time for science is only ~10%, so these are only a tiny
fraction of that in ftes)
Please HELP us track new members
HISTORY
Proto-faculty
Faculty established
May
112006
September 30 2006
First Assembly
Second Assembly
Third Assembly
Fourth Assembly
Fifth Assembly
May
October
March
July
November
Faculty Workshop
Sept.
112006
19 2006
29 2007
05 2007
15 2007
05-07 2007
X-rays from Nearby Galaxies: 74 participants (12 internal)
6 Jamborees (latest Nov. 15 '07 Tot.: 82 spoke/78+ bios on the web)
13 Council meetings (minutes on web)
5 Assemblies (VGs on web)
1 Interfaculty Telecon with ESTEC Faculty Executive (Exec)
FACULTY OPERATION
FACULTY OPERATION
We need more proposals. We' re not spending our budget
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new Solar System people haven’t really started to spend yet
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Council meet ~1 per month to approve funding requests
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All funded projects should finish with:
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short written report of progress during visit
ideally: presentation of results (seminar)
eventual products (e.g. refereed papers etc.)
FACULTY OPERATION - FUNDING
Follow funding instructions at
http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=ESACFACULTY&page=internal_index
THREE STEPS:
To start the process :
Apply for Faculty funding (text proposal made to Council)
email to: [email protected]
After approval and 6 weeks before work starts :
Submit Contract Application Form (1 pg. Word doc.)
email to: [email protected] (cc: [email protected])
On receipt of contract in mail (or before – using the web form) :
Submit Reimbursement Form (Microsoft Excel format)
Signed paper form to: Leo Metcalfe and Andy Pollock)
FACULTY OPERATION - FUNDING
PERCENTAGE OF BUDGET ALLOCATED PER CATEGORY
Visitors
Visitors
Visitors
Established
Researchers
Ph.D. students
&
Post-Docs.
Trainees
35%
40%
10%
Elite seminar
Mini-Workshops
5%
5%
Discretionary
5%
ACKNOWLEDGING FUNDING
Acknowledgement: We acknowledge support from the
Faculty of the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
OFFICE SPACE
• Plan to have one Visitor Office per building (A,B,C)
• Will serve visitors to mission teams and also Faculty
• With 3 offices in total we hope it will be enough
• Paying for Faculty office-space could cost 33KEuro/year
• Final agreements pending
FACULTY WEB
Last time I wrote :==>
I’d appreciate a VOLUNTEER to help with the Web work !!??
thank you
NICK for responding !!!
RF ISSUES
Pool of interviewers for Research Fellow candidates:
LM asked for volunteers from among experienced ESA staff :==>
Matthias Ehle
Andy Pollock
Matteo Guainazzi
Maria Santos-Lleo
Peter Kretschmar
Erik Kuulkers
Patrick Martin
Leo Metcalfe
Luis Sanchez
Norbert Schartel
Next RF application deadline
: January 21 2008
Next 3rd. year contract application deadline : January 31 2008
UPDATE
ON
FUNDED PROGRAMMES
PROGRAMMES SUPPORTED
http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=ESACFACULTY&page=internal_index
Departmental Research Proposals
Departmental Research Proposals
 Sept.24 SCI-S and SCI-OA issued a Call for Research Proposals
 Deadline October 8 - Scope: Left very broad. Any good Science
 Funds available: Substantial (approximate amount reported at Assembly)
 Departments asked Faculty to set up Scientific peer review panel
 an ESTEC/ESAC Panel was appointed (names listed at Assembly)
 11 proposals received: Only 1 ESAC PI
• Detectors/Instrumentation, Extra-Solar Planets, SSOs, Meteors, Plasma
Physics, Data Analysis ... impressively technical
 Faculty Panel reported by Nov.03
 Senior management discussed Nov.05
 Now they must allocate resources
The Advisory Committee
for
Research
Biennial Review
 Every two years, our research output is reviewed by an Advisory
Committee of senior scientists
 We prepare the "Biennial Report" as input (remember the publications lists?)
 They visit - usually ESTEC - hear presentations and talk to a sample
of Science staff and RFs
 They make recommendations, e.g. last time
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start a Faculty
support a few 3rd. year RF extensions
have a visitor programme
... sound familiar !!?? ...
 Next visit Nov.22/23 @ ESTEC
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Pedro G-L, Maria S-L. will give Sci. talks in presentation session
LM will go and be chair-like: Round Table with the Faculties
3 RFs will go (Stefania, Nick, Luca): Round Table with the RFs
some of us will get a nice meal
MISCELLANEOUS
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
 20% and 50% Science Posts
• this was raised at the 3rd Assembly
• subsequently Pedro Garcia-Lario agreed to set up a small
Commission within the Faculty to prepare a case, including a
proposed method of assessment of research performance, for
consideration by the Faculty (both ESAC and ESTEC). If
approved by the Faculty it would be presented to ESA
management. Over to Pedro ...
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
 After the jamborees: Opportunities to collaborate ??
• think I said it last time: We should compile a list of internal collaborations
• also, consider to flick through the research profiles of Faculty members
listed under “ESAC Faculty Jamborees” at :==>
http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=ESACFACULTY&page=events_index
It can be very surprising, with the number we now have, how many
overlaps you find!!
• please notify me (short email is fine) of any existing or new collaborations
• in case you are involved, especially centrally, in significant external
collaborations I’d appreciate knowing that too
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
Evaluation of Faculty success:
• will be coming back for status reports on promised outputs from funding
• has the Faculty helped you to do research. Unfortunately perhaps, this
tends to mean "is your name on more papers"!?
• by middle of next year we should be seeing real impacts!
• I think that e.g. Workshops and general interaction with and visibility to
the Community is also important, especially where it increases their
involvement in the missions
• I’d be glad to see other criteria enumerated.
KEEPING YOUR PROMISES
Did you sell your soul for Faculty money !!??
Someone wants to talk to you!
Matteo Guainazzi is ...
The Faculty
Terminator
ESAC FACULTY