MMA Imaging and Calibration Group

Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 20 Januaryr at 4:00 pm EST.

Date: 20 January 2004

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

Phone: (434)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone 3rd 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

8 January -- Presentations at AAS Town Meeting
22-23 January -- Operations Group face-to-face meeting Charlottesville, Virginia
27 Jan -- ALMA/NA Board telecaucus
29 January -- ALMA Board telecon 2004 Board Meeting Dates
4 Feb -- ASAC Telecon
18-20 Feb -- miniminiALMA Week, Japan
1-2 March -- ALMA System Review, Garching?
3-5 March -- mini-ALMA Week, Garching?
11-12 March -- AMAC Meeting, NTC Auditorium, Charlottesville
30 March -- 1 April ALMA Board meets, Socorro, N. M.
10-11 May -- ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Cambridge, England
14-15 May (tent) -- ALMA/NA Meeting, U. of Maryland
25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
22-23 June -- ALMA Board Meeting, Europe

LAMA Memo Series has inhabitants!

- Project news/updates (Al )
    Credland to replace Kurz
            Rafal to take new position.
            Science IPT notes from Last week's telecon.

Discussion Items - (Wootten)

Calibration (Butler)       - Calibration plan DAR and milestones. (Bryan)
               Problem areas phase, passband calibration, singledish...
Phase stability. Slides from John Payne ultimately from D'Addario
Communications Newsletter
Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:
                Gibson/Welch exploration of absolute calibration. Discussion

Science IPT activities (Wootten )

        ALMA SSR document comments due.
ALMA System Design Document
                      Problem areas: 90 degree phase switching
                                                 WVR level of correction of phase jitter
                                                 Square law detector
Configuration (Wootten)
         Antenna specs.
         Data Format for ALMA. Comments please.

ATF (Mangum)
Site characterization (Radford)
Public Relations.

Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

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

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

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Travel

Oh, always

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