Agenda for meeting Tuesday, 14 March 2000 at 4pm EST.
Date: 14 March 2000
Time: 4:00 pm EST (2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)
Phone: (804)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone).
Past minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page
Minutes
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From the ASAC meeting.
Fourth draft of the System PDR is available.
Fourth draft of the Test Interferometer PDR is available.
Project book updates on track--ALMA by 31 Mar.
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Tucson meeting update
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Peter Shaver's preliminary minutes are here.
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Action Items 14Mar2000
DECISION: Configurations--where are we? March meeting plans...
DECISION: Implementation of 183 GHz WVR? Specs now exist.
DECISION: Is a nutating secondary necessary? On 4-6 production antennas, plust prototypes.
DECISION: What is the total power specification on the ALMA? It is 1 part in 10-4 in 1 sec.
DECISION: What is the effect of 1/f noise in the HEMT amplifiers of SIS receivers upon our ability to combine total power and interferometric images into a faithful representation of the sky? TBD
Year 2000
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Jan, 20-21 | Correlator PDR | Charlottesville, USA |
Jan, 31 | Division Heads/Team Managers Meeting | Teleconference |
Feb, 3 | Euro-SAC Meeting | Teleconference |
Feb, 14 | ALMA SAC Meeting | Teleconference |
Feb, 16 | ALMA Liaison Group Meeting | Tokyo, Japan |
Feb, 17-19 | ALMA Technical Meeting | Tokyo, Japan |
Feb, 23 | Configuration WG | Teleconference |
Feb, 28-29 | ALMA Systems Review | Garching, Germany |
Mar, 2 | Euro-SAC Meeting | Teleconference |
Mar, 6 | Software Working Meeting | Garching, Germany |
Mar, 8 | Photonics Coordination Meeting | Schipol, Amsterdam |
Mar, 9 | ALMA Liaison Group Meeting | Amsterdam, NL |
Mar, 10-11 | ALMA SAC Meeting | Leiden, NL |
Mar, 20-21 | Receiver Conceptual Design Review | Charlottesville, USA |
Mar, 20-21 | Array Configuration Review | Tucson, USA |
Mar, 22 | Site Monitoring Review | Tucson, AZ |
Mar, 27-31 | SPIE Meeting: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2000 | Munich, Germany |
Apr, 3 | ECC Meeting | Garching, Germany |
Apr, 6 | Euro-SAC Meeting | Teleconference |
Apr, 7 | ACC Meeting | Washington DC, USA |
Apr, 10 | ALMA SAC Meeting | Teleconference |
Apr, 27-28 | Science Software Requirements (SSR) Meeting | Paris, France |
May, 1-2 | Site Development Discussions | Garching, Germany |
May, 2-5 | Test Interferometer Discussions | Tucson, AZ |
Jun, 12-16 | 2nd IRAM Millimeter Interferometry Summer School | IRAM Grenoble, France |
Jun, 20-27 | 7th Synthesis Imaging Summer School | Socorro, USA |
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Travel
AW -> AAS 12-16 Jan 2000. AW -> Tokyo 16-21 Feb 2000. AW -> Leiden 8 - 13 March 2000. ------