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Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 17 February at 4:00 pm EST.

Date: 17 February 2004

Time: 4:00 pm EST (2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)

Phone: (434)972-7268  (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone 2nd floor).  No Video planned...

Past minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page
 
 

Agenda

Notes from the meeting are in this font!
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Science IPT Items - Wootten

ALMA Calendar

LAMA Memo Series  has  inhabitants!

Project news/updates (Al )
             Most have gone off to Tokyo...
            Science IPT notes from Last month's telecon.
             Time for an NSF bimonthly report--please send me a short suggested contribution.
            ALMA in Chile Meeting in D. C. at AUI.

Discussion Items - (Wootten)

 Calibration (Mangum)       - Very scuzzy draft Calibration plan.
                    - The Specs and Reqs August 03 Version(Wootten) now in almaedm as a Change Request for PB Chapter 3
                      Note that this is a major component of our miniALMA week activity
               
- Total Power calibration (Holdaway)
                    - Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:  
                           No action at IRAM--where do we go from here?
 Commissioning and Verification (Wootten, Laing)
  System Review --new System Design document.  Committee: Wootten (Chair) Stephane Guilloteau, Masato Ishiguro, Richard Hills, Michel Guelin
                       Bryan Butler, David Woody
                 System Design Review documentation in the ALMA forum here  Gee this is restricted--that seems strange!
                Problem areas:  90 degree phase switching.  Change request submitted.  Software agreed.
                                                 WVR level of correction of phase jitter. Agreement between Science IPT and SE.
                                                 Square law detector - 2ms minimum integration time.
 Communications  Newsletter
          May Meeting   Strawman format for comments.
 

Science IPT activities (Wootten )
       
         Data Format for ALMA.  Gueth comments received.
          NA-ASC Strawman science plan.           ATF (Mangum) 
          Site characterization (Radford)
          Public Relations. 
          Next  Science IPT Telecon Tuesday 9 March 1500UT.

Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

Astronomical Polarimetry - Current Status and Future Directions March 15-19, 2004. Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Hawaii.

Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century   18-21 May 2004 Berlin, Germany

Cores, Disks, Jets & Outflows in Low & High Mass Star Forming Environments: Observations, Theory and Simulations  July 12-16, 2004  Banff, Alberta, Canada

Dusty and Molecular Universe  27-29 October 2004, Paris

Protostars and Planets V  24 - 28 October 2005  Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii






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Travel

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