[General] Attendance

[John Williamson]

Hello,

I will come.

I will help in any way I can.

Am probably flying into Los Angeles as this seems a little cheaper (and I will be, at least in part, self-funding).  I am up for being involved with any meetings, discussions or just plain fun before or after anywhere in the vicinity (will hire a car).

Regards, John.
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From: General [general-bounces+john.williamson=glasgow.ac.uk at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org] on behalf of Chip Akins [chipakins at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 1:09 PM
To: 'Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion'
Subject: [General] Attendance

Hi Andrew

I will be able to attend. If I can contribute in an effective way to this effort I would like to help.

Chip

From: General [mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Meulenberg
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 1:36 AM
To: Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion
Subject: [General] Post Deadline! papers

Dear Friends,
It looks as if Chandra has found an option within the SPIE framework that will allow us to proceed in a semi-organized manner. Let us take advantage of that. We also need to take advantage of our volunteers and help them as much as possible.
Mary (Dr. Mary Fletcher and wife of Bob Hudgins) and Rachel (my wife, a very quick learner) have volunteered to try and put together, in some form, a presentation poster of the many people and positions of this 'group'. They will not be able to read all of the email exchanges and extract the necessary (and filter out the unnecessary) comments of the group. They will need pointed inputs. I have volunteered to help them get started. To be successful, this effort will required each member of the group to contribute their own position (even if they are not planning on attending the conference itself).
This group is a bunch of volunteers already. However, we are all, by our natures, independent and 'mavericks' (and maybe over- committed). Trying to organize an effort involving something that all of us hold dear will not be easy. We can start with a few steps. You can:

  1.  Identify if you will be able to attend the conference or not. We can post (& update) a probable list of attendees and titles of any papers submitted (accepted) on the website. Submit to subject: 'attendance'
  2.  submit an individual position statement into the subject thread to be labeled 'positions'. It can be updated as new topics are discussed & integrated.
  3.  identify topics for 'workshops' that you would be interested in attending. Submit to subject: 'topics'
  4.  Volunteer to chair specific (or any of the) small workshops and to present (on the last morning) & to write up (within 2 weeks of the meeting) the meeting action/results/conclusions/etc. Submit to subject: 'volunteers'

Thank you,

Andrew
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:18 AM, chandra <chandra at phys.uconn.edu<mailto:chandra at phys.uconn.edu>> wrote:
Dear Friends:

I am delighted to see that our discussions are heading towards defining a fruitful platform. As Martin has done; each of us need to unambiguously define our position pertaining to fundamental postulates (“accepted beliefs”); which are at the root of our individual theories for the discussion, “Electron <--> Photon”. This will help us down select and define a very clear set of discussion-points that would be possible to carry out within the 3-hour time we have on the Thursday morning.

Of course, we will be able to advance this discussion quite a bit over this web-saved-emails, if all of us quickly define your positions regarding the fundamental postulates behind the theories that we believe in and we are using to advance your current models for electrons (photons). Then our volunteer editors  can collect and group them. Then we can collectively iterate a few times and then we finalize the discussion-focal points. If we do this soon, we will have time to even re-assess whether we have succeeded in down selecting the best set of discussion issues while email-based discussion keeps on advancing.

Remember, even though ours is  “Special Conference” granted by SPIE; we still need to conform to its basic rules behind the publication of SPIE proceedings. Proceeding papers should be between 6 to 15 pages long, and never to exceed 20-pages. All papers in the proceeding must have assigned conference numbers. Obviously, our “discussion papers” do not have numbers; as we have not submitted abstracts for these papers yet.

Here is a possible solution. My discussion with SPIE indicates that SPIE will be happy to assign paper numbers like post deadline! Papers; if we edit and group the output of our discussions into well-selected set of papers (between 6 to 20 pages) and authored by appropriate set of discussion participants. If all of you “sign up to this approach”; then we need to pro-actively organize the discussions-points and createTENTATIVE discussion groups who will author specific discussion-papers. “Tentative” implies that we should be able to re-organize our collective authorships, if necessary, as we finalize the separation of discussion outcomes into a well-defined set of papers.

Are all of you willing to organize our discussions issues with this mode of publication by several sub-groups, yet to be defined?

Chandra.
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