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GTP Annual Meeting 2009

MINUTES

• Review of FY09: $ 52.6K spent, with
  • $1.7 k on seminars (4 of them, plus 6 free to GTP, with mostly HAO co-sponsorship)
  • $31.2k on visitors (7 people; 95% MMM)
  • $20.6k on equipment (100% EOL)


• Committments made for F'09 that will carry over to F' 2010:
  • $ 6K for a GTP retreat
  • $ 12K for visitors (TNT)
  • $ 30K for workshop on rotating stratified flows: Zeitlin & Chomaz in EU; CHRIS SNYDER has kindly accepted to be the LOCAL ORGANIZER
  • $ 10K for workshop in the honor of Bob Kraichnan, in Beijing (co-organized by GTP)

• Fiscal 2010:
  
  $8K to spend on top of the previous commitment
• Another workshop:
  No proposition; AP suggested a workshop-like small meeting to bring in J. Brasseur, A. Guenther, Ned Patton, etc. to consider chemistry in turbulence. Patton agreed to lead this effort. See (5) below.
• 1-SEMINARS
  Seminar speaker recommendations (3 days + 1 day travel; $ with no overhead):
  Tribbia: Eleftherios, Chorin
  Fournier: Sreenivasan
  Sullivan: Riley, Feron, P.K. Yeung
  Chin-hoh: Nicholas Jaron (sp?)
  Herring: R. Salmon
  Total seminars..................................$11K
  Already in the pipeline, invited by Pouquet:
  Bouchet (LANL) in October
  Balbus (Paris) in November.
• 2-VISITORS
  Visitor recommendations ($ include overhead):
  

  Host	Guest	Duration	Allocation
  Lenschow	Gurarie.	1 month.	$ 4.6K
  Patton, Frehlich, Sullivan, Lenschow	Jakob Mann,	1 month,	$4.6K
  Patton	Finnigan	1 month	, $4.6K
  Pouquet	Dubrulle	2 weeks	$2.6K
  Pouquet, Patton, Sullivan	Jim Brasseur	1 month	$4.6K
  Rast	J. F. Pinton	1-2 weeks	$2.6K
  Rosenberg	Omar Ghattas	1 week	$1.6K
  Sullivan	Harm Jonker	1 month	$ 4.6K
  Jielun Sun(LATE REQUEST)	Mahrt	1 wk	$1.6K
  Tribbia	J. McWilliams	1 month	$ 4.6K
  Total visitors:		$36K

• 3- GRADUATE STUDENTS and POST DOCS
  Recommendations ($ include overhead)
  Smolarkiewicz: Cossette, 3 month, $12K Piotrowski, 3 months, $12.5K Total grad students/post doc.............$24.5K
• 4-GTP RETREAT
  GTP retreat extras, Tribbia and Pouquet: $1.9K
• 5-GTP FY 2010 WORKSHOP
  Workshop ($ with no overhead):
  Extended round table on chemistry in turbulence, Patton, $13K
• 6- VAPOR ENHANCEMENT
  Reserve for Mark and John for VAPOR enhancement (TBD) ($includes overhead) $4.6K
• 7-GTP RESERVE
  Reserve for GTP at ~ 7% $7K
  Total FY2010 recommendations....................$98K
  Note that all numbers have been decreased a bit compared to what was discussed in our meeting, in order to accommodate a new request and a remark made to me that a GTP reserve should be maintained for emergencies.
• 8- STIMULUS PACKAGE
  Stimulus package post-doc position for 2 years, $ 133K each year salary + a little travel):
  Pouquet: Reminded GTP of postdoc position(s) received from stimulus funds on the basis of a GTP request and of Al Kellie and Eric Barron's support. Made clear that the appointment(s) would be for petascale work. Discussion ensued on whether this should be a scientific appointment, or a computer scientist, or a mixture of both, with preference for the former. Pouquet wanted comments on the selection process.
  Tribbia: Suggested that we don't go through ASP, but put something out now, not waiting for the ASP deadlines and timetables. It could give us an edge in getting a candidate. Also believes that it would be a mistake to have 2 * 1-year postdocs, instead of 1 * 2-year position.
  There was agreement on this point.
• 9-OTHER BUSINESS
  Millif: wanted to discuss the TOY selection, and Pouquet pointed him to Nychka/IMAGe.

TO-DO: Annick writes the first versions of a post-doc add, and it is circulated. A selection committee has to be formed.
TO-DO: Joe and Annick organize a GTP retreat in 2010
TO-DO: Ned confirms his organizing a "round-table with guests" on chemical turbulence
TO-DO: Mark and John check on availability of Kenny (or some other person?) for VAPOR follow-up on Kenny's PhD
TO-DO: All divisional hosts of visitors (seminars, short and long term, grad students and post-docs) are responsible for invitations, for communicating dates to me with a one-line topic, for visit details, and for a one paragraph report (to one page at most, including a figure)by the end of the fiscal year, with help of GTP administration for travel, etc.

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