Administrative Core

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Project Summary: Core 1, Administration    The Administrative Core will support the Team Director and the Internal Advisory Committee of this  multi-component research project as they supervise budgets and scientific activities to enable the project to  achieve its goal of determining how the brain produces working memory and decisions. The investigators in  this proposal have a strong history of collaboration over the past three years. The research projects that they  have developed are tightly integrated around shared conceptual questions and a closely related set of  behavioral tasks. To ensure that the project continues as a well-coordinated collaboration, the team will hold  monthly meetings that include all research personnel and weekly meetings of all project leaders to review  results and plan upcoming experiments. Six of the project leaders are based at Princeton University and are  part of a cohesive academic community that regularly interacts in scheduled meetings and spontaneous  discussions. The seventh project leader (located at the University of California, Davis) participates in weekly  team meetings via video link and will travel to Princeton as needed for formal meetings. The full team is  already sharing documents, drafts, figures, talks, and posters and conducting frequent informal discussions  on one dedicated Slack channel that is used by all research personnel and another channel for PIs only. The  team will hold one formal meeting per year of all personnel. The Annual Meeting will include the project  leaders, students, and postdocs, along with an External Advisory Board, to be appointed by the Team  Director. The purpose of this meeting will be to document and evaluate the previous year’s progress. The  administrator will coordinate the Annual Meeting and produce a monthly budget report for the Team Director  to review. The administrator will also assist all investigators in scheduling interviews for job candidates,  meeting reporting requirements, booking travel, and acquiring major supplies and equipment. Results from  the proposed research will be disseminated through formal and informal mechanisms, and the administrator  will assist in these efforts whenever possible. In addition, the Administrative Core will assist the Data Science  Core in managing the dissemination and ongoing support of the prototype data science framework for the use  of other researchers. The administrator will also design and implement public outreach activities. By managing  these resources and activities, the Administrative Core will help the Team Director to coordinate the five  Projects and the four Cores, while allowing the project leaders and other research personnel to concentrate on  their strengths in research by spending less time and energy on administrative tasks.