https://astro.kias.re.kr/KSG/index.php?title=%ED%8A%B9%EC%88%98:%EC%83%88%EB%AC%B8%EC%84%9C&feed=atom&hidebots=1&hideredirs=1&limit=50&offset=&namespace=0&username=&tagfilter=KSG - 새 문서 목록 [ko]2024-03-29T14:42:58ZKSGMediaWiki 1.26.3https://astro.kias.re.kr/KSG/index.php/AS2_membership%EC%97%90_%EB%8C%80%ED%95%98%EC%97%AC_--_%EB%B0%95%EC%B0%BD%EB%B2%94_2007-05-29AS2 membership에 대하여 -- 박창범 2007-05-292013-08-05T11:20:42Z<p>Root: 새 문서: 2007-05-29 20:28:28 박창범 ---- 회원들께 AS2 프로포잘이 구체화되어 제출을 앞두고 있습니다. 이에 가입희망자들의 지원을 바라고 있습니다. ...</p>
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<div>2007-05-29 20:28:28<br />
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박창범<br />
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회원들께<br />
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AS2 프로포잘이 구체화되어 제출을 앞두고 있습니다.<br />
이에 가입희망자들의 지원을 바라고 있습니다.<br />
협조 편지입니다. 또 그 아래에는 AS2 가입 회원에 대한<br />
규정을 첨부하였습니다.<br />
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Richard Kron <rich@oddjob.uchicago.edu> <br />
날짜 2007년 05월 23일 09:28:00 (서버에서) 받은 시각 : 2007년 05월 23일 09:30:06 <br />
메일제목 Institutional support for the AS2 project <br />
<br />
<br />
Dear colleagues:<br />
<br />
This note concerns a number of aspects of institutional support for the<br />
After SDSS-II (AS2) project.<br />
<br />
AS2 is preparing funding proposals to agencies, and as for SDSS, we need to<br />
show strong institutional support. We are assuming that the institutions<br />
will collectively provide 30% or so of the total cash and in-kind<br />
requirements.<br />
<br />
When the proposals are submitted, it will therefore be important to include<br />
letters of interest from potential institutional partners. If your<br />
institution is interested, the following gives an example of a non-committal<br />
but still useful response. If your Department can make a stronger<br />
statement, even better. (Please make sure responses from Departments are<br />
coordinated - we need one per institution, of course).<br />
<br />
Example letter of support for proposals:<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
Dear Richard and Daniel:<br />
<br />
Astronomers in my Department have read the white paper describing the "After<br />
SDSS-II" (AS2) project, and have found the scientific program to be of<br />
exceptional interest and a good match to our Department's planned direction<br />
in the next several years.<br />
<br />
We strongly support the proposals for AS2 being prepared for submission to<br />
funding agencies. One way that we can help is contribute to AS2 as an<br />
institutional partner. We are starting to explore the level at which we may<br />
be capable of joining, and we will keep you informed as these discussions<br />
progress.<br />
<br />
Sincerely yours,<br />
<br />
X. Y. Z.<br />
Chair<br />
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<br />
Separately, last month I sent an appeal for "at-risk" small contributions to<br />
SDSS-II Advisory Council members and ARC Board of Governors members. I am<br />
pleased that the response was good, but it may be worth repeating some of<br />
those words in case we missed some opportunities. Excerpting,<br />
<br />
"I would now like to ... request volunteered contributions<br />
at the $20k level, or whatever amount makes sense from the point of view of<br />
matching interest with risk. In-kind effort will be gratefully accepted if<br />
it can apply against the near-term needs and if this effort is identified<br />
by the AS2 management as critical for the project. Funds received will be<br />
kept in a special account by Mike Evans, separate from SDSS-II accounts,<br />
and the funds will be spent (or the in-kind work directed) by Daniel with<br />
the oversight of the SC. When AS2 eventually raises the rest of the<br />
necessary funds and is otherwise successful, then any cash contributed now<br />
would of course count towards the institutional membership fee in AS2. If<br />
AS2 is not successful, then these funds may not be repaid.<br />
<br />
It is worth noting that raising some money now will provide a demonstration<br />
of support ... that will be an asset during early discussions with funding<br />
agencies."<br />
<br />
Finally, the AS2 Steering Committee has converged on the rules for<br />
contributions to AS2 for institutional membership. The following gives the<br />
text, which is supposed to be self-contained, but please contact me if you<br />
have any questions.<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Rich Kron<br />
for the AS2 Steering Committee<br />
<br />
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<br />
Procedures for Obtaining Membership in After SDSS-2<br />
05/22/07<br />
<br />
This document outlines ground rules for institutional membership in the<br />
After SDSS-2 (AS2) surveys. These rules are proposed by the AS2 Steering<br />
Committee for the approval of the ARC Board of Governors. After the initial<br />
AS2 collaboration has formed, the Steering Committee will transfer authority<br />
to the Advisory Council (AC), a body with representation from the<br />
institutional partners. At that point the Advisory Council may opt to<br />
modify these rules (again with the approval of the ARC Board of Governors).<br />
The scenarios and budgets described in this document are preliminary and<br />
subject to modification.<br />
<br />
AS2 is planned as a six-year survey, with observations beginning in July<br />
2008, and ending in June 2014. An additional year of support for data<br />
processing and archiving will be required. AS2 is comprised of four<br />
individual surveys: SEGUE-II, MARVELS, APOGEE, and BOSS. Participation in<br />
AS2 includes the entirety of the project, as opposed to selections of<br />
individual surveys. Hence, membership in AS2 provides institutions with<br />
access to all of the data, even if particular institutions or individuals<br />
confine their efforts to a limited subset of the surveys.<br />
<br />
Membership in AS2<br />
<br />
Membership in AS2 is open to individual institutions; other collaborative<br />
buy-in arrangements will be considered on a case-by-case basis if there are<br />
compelling and mutually beneficial reasons to do so. Membership in AS2 is<br />
recommended by the Steering Committee (and ultimately by the Advisory<br />
Council) to the ARC Board of Governors. One criterion for membership is a<br />
tangible contribution to the construction or operating needs of the AS2, as<br />
described below. <br />
<br />
Full Institutional Membership includes data rights for an unlimited number<br />
of participants from the institution. Full Membership is expected to<br />
require a total contribution of a particular amount that is expected to be<br />
between $750k and $1M, depending on the number of partners recruited and the<br />
success of other fund-raising efforts. In most cases this membership fee<br />
would be paid in annual installments over the lifetime of the project, where<br />
front-loading of payments is necessary to fund the required hardware and<br />
software upgrades. All partners are encouraged to join as Full members.<br />
<br />
To accommodate institutions that cannot commit to a Full membership,<br />
Associate Institutional Membership includes data rights for a specified<br />
number of Participants, where the cost-per-Participant is set to one-fifth<br />
of the cost of a Full membership. These Participants would be named, as<br />
opposed to pooled. Participants are understood to be long-term scientific<br />
staff, e.g. faculty (tenured and non-tenured), research-track scientists,<br />
and equivalent. Participation rights can be moved from one researcher to<br />
another with the consent of the Director; the Director (and AC if necessary)<br />
has the authority to limit over-use of this flexibility. Each Participant<br />
is allowed to share data-access rights with one postdoctoral fellow.<br />
Graduate students, undergraduate students, and individuals within two years<br />
of their first bachelor degree (e.g., individuals working for a year before<br />
going to graduate school) are limited to those working directly with one of<br />
the Participants. Postdocs and other professionals who are supported by<br />
AS2, or whose work is counted as an in-kind contribution, will also have<br />
data-access and other participatory privileges so long as they are spending<br />
the majority of their time on an activity acknowledged by AS2 to be of<br />
general service to the project. A minimum of three Participants is required<br />
to have a vote on the AC, to have a representative on the collaboration<br />
Council (CoCo), and to be listed as a member on official boilerplate.<br />
However, an institution may join with one or two participants.<br />
<br />
Contributions to AS2<br />
<br />
Contributions can be cash or in-kind, and measured in US dollars. Only<br />
direct costs will be counted as in-kind contributions (i.e. including fringe<br />
benefits but excluding institutional overheads). All in-kind contributions<br />
need to specifically address items in the Director's budget and must be<br />
approved by the Management Committee (MC) and the AC. Hardware and software<br />
developed previously for SDSS, SDSS-II, and the ET Pilot Program would<br />
generally not be counted as an in-kind contribution for AS2.<br />
<br />
AS2 will have seven annual payment periods, starting in January, 2008, and<br />
ending in December 2014. The requested contribution schedule will be<br />
frontloaded with a minimum profile such that 3/14 is due in 2008, 1/7 in<br />
2009 through 2013, and 1/14 in 2014. Frontloaded payments in excess of the<br />
nominal profile will receive a small (3% per year) adjustment for<br />
anticipated inflation as a means to encourage earlier contributions.<br />
Additional encouragement may be granted by the SC and AC to provide a bonus<br />
of up to 10% if offered funds in 2007 and 2008 are required to meet the AS2<br />
cost profile. For example, if one paid the entire cost in 2007, this<br />
benefit (10% plus 3% inflation adjustment) would be about 81 cents on the<br />
dollar. <br />
<br />
It is anticipated that payments will be required no later than the first<br />
quarter of each calendar year of the survey, beginning in 2008. It is<br />
understood that 2008 contributions carry some risk, as they will likely be<br />
due before full funding is assured.<br />
<br />
It is recognized that there may be cases in which institutions cannot commit<br />
(or fulfill) their full contribution for the seven-year period. Such<br />
institutions will forfeit their rights to data taken after the default of<br />
payment, although specific situations will be dealt with as they arise by<br />
the Director, the MC and the AC.<br />
<br />
It is anticipated that some data processing, archiving and release costs<br />
will be incurred in 2015. The AS2 project will strive to handle<br />
institutional contributions towards these expenses by careful forward<br />
budgeting, rather than by additional requests for funding.<br />
<br />
The AS2 project intends to negotiate a waiver of overhead rates with MOU<br />
partners as part of work packages. SDSS, SDSS-II, and the 3.5-m telescope<br />
were projects undertaken by ARC that set an example whereby in general ARC<br />
member institutions and MOU partners waived recovery of indirect costs on<br />
work conducted at the respective institutions. This policy (of having<br />
institutions where work is done carrying the burden of the IDC costs) was a<br />
significant indicator of commitment to the funding agencies for SDSS and<br />
SDSS-II, and we can expect the same to be true for AS2.<br />
<br />
Governance in AS2<br />
<br />
Full and Associate Institutional Members with at least three Participants<br />
have equal representation and voting rights on the AC and CoCo (i.e., one<br />
vote per institution) and will be listed as institutional partners on<br />
official project boilerplate.</div>Root