Fall Exec Meeting {Virtual}
Chair – introduction to Dan & refresher on platform he ran on (getting COMP division talks prioritized and placed in correct room)
Mentioned that Gordon for 2021 is currently still planned for in-person
Plans to try pushing against ACS programming
Website updates – some of the photos are old/distorted, will ask extended exec for photos
Seonah will request update/input for newsletter, plan to distribute after Thanksgiving
Secretary's report
Councilors & Alts
Emilio Gallicchio introduced himself
- Recently interested in undergrad research & interdisciplinary projects
Paul Beroza
- Thinks we can leverage ties between academia & industry better
Treasurers report:
- IRS has accepted our tax return
- By end of 2020, Lewis will provide estimated budget for 2021
- Significantly under budget this year, by about 80k under estimate (due to not having expenses from national meetings)
- Plan to vote on budget for 2021 previous to submission of forms
- Informed about rate increase for division to support sponsorship of National Award from 7.5k to 17.5k –
o Plan to connect with other divisions, as PHYS is also small and doesn’t have huge available budget, plan to rebut ACS together on this increase with other divisions
o Plan to reach out to industry/software companies
o Some concern over attaching software/industry name to National Award, could potentially poll membership, but since award is granted by blinded committee, shouldn’t really be a problem…
Awards:
- No decline in the number of applicants for Fall
- Everyone who has gotten junior faculty award has gotten Tenure – better predictor (slightly) than getting NSF career award
- For Fall, zoom meeting worked out nicely, great to give winners the chance to speak
- Plan to keep this up even when we go back to in-person, perhaps in different venue….
- Missing Nvidia because that’s judged at the meeting
o Will ask them if the can switch, maybe have people give mini talk to judges
- Still no deadline for awards… wait on ACS
JMGM:
- Call for late stage grad students, postdocs, people of color to be first time reviewers
- Email Emilio with names to add to list
o emilio@exeResearch.com or emilio.esposito@gmail.com I’ll email you the details
Programming
- Jana will need to step down given chair position
- Fall National Meeting
o Looked to be pretty well attended
- Will be a meeting 11/12/20 to discuss proposal for Spring meeting
o Deadline not yet published for abstracts
o Suggest that we operate under the assumption meeting will be virtual
- Thinking maybe we should prioritize grad/postdocs as only people talking under official channel, that way they can put talk on CV
- Reserve “parallel” zoom for non-student speakers / invited symposium
- Set up subgroup committee to further disccuss parallel COMP hosted symposium to involve invited speakers & host live talks
- Something for undergrads?
BIPOC in COMP IPG accepted
- 7.5k
- Want multiple chairs
- Want to hold off for in person
LatinXChem was a good model for poster session, lots of participation on Twitter
For undergrads, want to do poster session outside of official channel, 1 minute youtube videos hosted on our website
PHYS wants to collaborate on undergrad awards, but we should still own
Programming
- Alex Dickson to be next programming chair
- Want to have 3 co-chairs
- Would be good to have rotation in & out of programming, but in a balanced way so institutional knowledge isn’t lost
- Want representation from industry too
- Seonah will send Doodle poll for next meeting on Programming
Would be useful to have description of position responsibilities on COMP website (specifically programming chair & councilors in particular)