The Membership of the SWG consists of about 30 scientists, mostly from the US. Deane Peterson, SUNY at Stony Brook , and Michael Shao, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, serve as Co-chairs. The committee is divided into four subcommittees covering :
The status of the SIM project is extensively covered at the JPL SIM site. The importance of SIM and interferometry in general in NASA's future can be seen in reference to the Origins Program in NASA's Office of Space Sciences.
The predecessor to the SIMSWG, the Space Interferometry Science Working Group which had been convened to select an architecture for SIM, published a Final Report which gives a lot of background and history of the Space Interferometry effort. Copies of the (postscript) document can be obtained here.
On February 25, 2000, the SIMSWG stood down, the timing coinciding with
the release of the SIM Science Team AO. The SIMSWG Final Report is
available here or at JPL.
During the almost four years of its tenure, the SIMSWG met 6 times.
Minutes of those meetings may be obtained below.
| SIMSWG | Date | Location | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 13/14, 1996 | Pasadena - IPAC | No |
| 2 | December 9/10, 1996 | Baltimore - STScI | Yes |
| 3 | October 27/28, 1997 | Pasadena Hilton | Yes |
| 4 | April 23/24, 1998 | Arcadia Embassy Suites | Yes |
| 5 | July 27/28, 1998 | Pasadena - CalTech | Yes |
| 6 | February 11/12, 1999 | Tucson - UofA | Yes |