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Last modified: 5 Aug 2011 11:45:59 UTC
Hi everyone -
First of all, I would like to thank all of you for your continued contributions and interest.
Cosmology@Home is still working for the same purpose it was originally designed to fulfill - to enable high precision parameter estimation from current and upcoming cosmological data sets, such as the WMAP data and Planck.
I agree that our communication with users has been sorely lacking. This is due to unavoidable personnel developments - this is a university project and the two main contributors to the day-to-day running of cosmology@home have graduated and moved on in their professional lives. I should explain that while I created the concept of cosmology@home, the implementation was done by Scott Kruger and Chad Fendt and graphics design was contributed by Laura Chu and Nikita Sorokin both while they were students at Illinois.
I am currently engaged in a job search for 2 positions, one of which is entirely dedicated to communication with users, and the other a system administrator to maintain and develop the technical aspects of C@H. So far these jobs have not been filled.
I am happy to be able to report that I have begun training a new collaborator in the use of Pico, one of the key components of cosmology@home (for an explanation of this role see the C@H wikipedia page, or the material on my home page, linked from C@H).
We are currently adapting an updated cosmological simulation code which includes a more accurate calculation of recombination (again, see cosmos.astro.illinois.edu for an explanation). As soon as we are able to find a sys admin for C@H this code will be released as a new kernel for C@H.
In other news, we are discussing ways for the Planck team to become more involved in communicating with cosmology@home and to provide you with more access and new ways to learn about cosmology and the Planck mission.
The basic concept behind cosmology@home continues to be valid and powerful: to enable tens of thousands of cosmology enthusiasts to contribute to high precision cosmology and enable high precision cosmology based on these contributions.
Best regards,
Ben Wandelt
Posted 16 Aug 2011 18:12:54 UTC
Dear C@H Participants:
This is Jatila, from the Planck Mission Education group. I'm trying to gather some feedback in a somewhat organized fashion, so that we can help address the needs of this community. If you don't mind sparing a few minutes of your time, would you please fill out a short (anonymous) survey which you can find at
www.surveymonkey.com/s/KNRKVXS ? This link will be active from today (mid-August) through mid-November, 2011.
This survey has been approved by Ben.
Thank you very much in advance for your feedback.
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Posted 3 Aug 2011 18:30:13 UTC
Greetings, C@H Community:
This is Jatila van der Veen, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I'm the Education and Outreach coordinator for the NASA component of the Planck Mission. I want you to know that the Planck science team really and truly appreciates the work of the C@H community in providing CPU time to crunch out models. You are providing an extremely valuable service to the Planck Mission.
I want to let you know that members of the Planck science and education teams will be joining this message board in the near future to help answer your questions.
I will also be sending out a request for your input to a survey to find out how you are using this website, and what more you would like to get from it. I am also looking into creating an in-world community for C@H on Second Life, where we can meet, chat, and discuss cosmology. What do you think of the idea of meeting in-world?
Hopefully, these efforts will make you feel more appreciated, and less isolated.
Meanwhile, please know that we very much appreciate your donations of CPU time.
Thank you very much,
Jatila
Dr. Jatila van der Veen
E/PO Lead for the NASA collaborators on the International Planck Mission