jarek - grant application?

[Jarek Rzepecki]

Hi Boud!
   I'm ill... so i will replay in more detail in few days... But in
genereal - sure i would like to be in the grant but i'm not sure if i will
do my PhD in Torun...
Cheers,
	Jarek
 On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Boud Roukema wrote:

> hi Jarek (Rzepecki),
>    Would you like to be included in our next grant application, on the
> assumption that you are likely to start a PhD in cosmo at CAMK-Toruń
> (or TCfA) next academic year? The SZ stuff can certainly be counted as
> useful for topology in the sense that more precise SZ modelling can lead
> to better values of the curvature parameters (via mass function evolution
> a la Blanchard et al) and so constrain, e.g. the Poincare dodecahedral
> model.
> 
> You can see the discussion on our previous grant application here:
> 
> http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2003-01/thrd1.html
> http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2003-02/thrd1.html
> 
> We're about to start discussing our next application this week, since
> the deadline is (probably) the end of Jan 2004 and there's a lot of
> paperwork to be filled out.
> 
> Anyone else who would like to be included (or excluded) from the application?
> 
> As i said in my previous email, IMHO this is astropolitics which does
> not provide efficient positive/negative feedbacks (for example,
> magister and PhD students cannot provide positive/negative feedback
> despite their obvious scientific qualification, while senior
> scientists who know less of the subject than students can provide
> feedback based on intuition without having any public record of their
> arguments or lack of arguments). But anyway, i think the consensus is
> that it's better to apply for grants than not to.
> 
> pozd
> boud
>