This week will be a very short science meeting: Dan and Andrew are in South Africa, Jeff is on his vacation, Dave just left for a rehearsal, and Adam is not around. So, it will be a very short and sweet meeting today.

First of all, we did run out of Astropulse data this weekend, but Bob started moving stuff around so we are back up already. We are looking for a new disk to come in from Arecibo.

In Bob’s database news: As we noted in our server meeting, we had an unremarkable weekend, which was actually remarkable. We had to add some space to the Beta Database, but everything worked out fine.

After looking through a few thousand waterfall plots, Adam found a few pulses. He looked at 3000, and there are about 30,000 of them. Josh looked through his 10 minutes of data and also saw a pulse. After closer inspection, it is pretty clear that they are looking at the same pulse. Good work!

Bob is going to talk first, since he has to leave a bit early today. He said that everything is going great with the MSQL Servers… and that is all.

Josh reported that now all 6 of the RFI detection algorithms are in place. One of them is working pretty slow: it takes about 4 hours to go through the data. Eric suggested that if we need it to go faster, we can just have to redo the whole thing in C++.

Eric is almost ready to submit at least two papers to the proceedings for the 2007 Bioastronomy conference In Puerto Rico. He’s going to try to get send in by the end of this week. When the papers are published we’re also going to get them up on the website for everyone to read. Also, Network World has published an article about BOINC and SETI@Home. It’s a good general article to read. It’s linked on the SETI@Home Website as well.