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-ToruĊ (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