Formal meeting 17 February 2010

Start time 4.00pm.

Attendance

Philip, Rachel, Zoltan, Harsh, Younus, Alan, Steven, Da, Jannetta, Richard, Neil, Jen

Summary of previous meeting

• Finished with new ideas
• NW has contacted Lindsay Marshal about Fine Art Graphics person. Waiting to hear back. Also has been contact with Elaine Martin about other team member.

Timeline

• Hard (visas) vs soft deadlines (more leeway)
• See action points for Phil and Jannetta

Shortlisting

Took longer than expected but Jannetta has by now published the results.

New ideas: Zoltan (NW)

DNA computing. Keywords: futuristic, threads, replicating bacteria, bacteria solving NP hard problems, e.g. Hamiltonian paths. Keep track of descendents: possibly using fillamentous bacteria.

Any other business

• Don't want to take major decisions about project ideas without supervisor present as guiders
• Won't be creating DNA sequences by April
• Don't talk over people in meetings
• Day before meeting - circulate Agenda, previous action points and minutes.
• Start of meeting: revisit minutes - does anyone have any problems with previous minutes? People report on progress on action points.
• Next meeting on Friday at 4:10 p.m.

Action points

• NW and JH: register the team
• NW and JG: look at funding (formally). Contact Pete Lee.
• Jannetta: merge standing agenda into agenda. Format: Agenda section at top (funding, timeline, modelling, tutorials needed, (?advisors), travel plans, visas ; Meeting at bottom.
• Jannetta: put brainstorm ideas onto a spreadsheet with tallied columns etc.
• Phil: put specific dates on timeline. Add: get letter from university for visas
• Jannetta and Phil: to create a summary of timeline as an Excel document in format similar to Ncl 2009 IGEM team website.
• Jannetta and Phil: create an Excel spreadsheet with dates showing the things we need to do to get Gold (start/finish dates, hard/soft deadlines, what needs to be done for Gold, for Silver, for Bronze)
• All: check whether you need visas
• Richard/Jannetta: Put put individual deadlines including when date to choose project by. Also need to arrange meeting between us, JH and AW.
• Need to reschedule tutorials until after we have decided on our final project idea (priority)