MMA Imaging and Calibration Group

Agenda for meeting Tuesday, 28 March 2000 at 4pm EST.

Date: 28 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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News - Wootten

From the ALMA/US/EU Joint DH meeting.

Project book updates on track--ALMA by 31 Mar.

Chapter 2 can be read, and a preliminary version of Chapter 3 as well as Min's revision of Chapter 15.

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Configuration CoDR Meeting - Yun

Tucson meeting review. A simulation process was agreed to, to evaluate imaging properties of the various arrays.

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Receiver CoDR - Myers

Steve pointed out that Larry has revised his receiver specs at Larry's Specs. Steve wrote a report on the meeting at Steve's Reciever CoDR Notes .

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ASAC - Wootten

The DRAFT ASAC report is here.

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Site Review - Radford

A Site Review was held in Tucson last week also.

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Test Correlator Software Review - Glendenning

A Test Correlator Software Review was held on 24 Mar by phone.

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System and Test Correlator PDReview - Wootten

A DRAFT of the System Review and of the Test Interferometer CDR.

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Action Items 28Mar2000

DECISION: Configurations--where are we? April meeting plans...

DECISION: Implementation of 183 GHz WVR?

DECISION: Is a nutating secondary necessary?

DECISION: What is the total power specification on the ALMA?

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?

Year 2000

January February March April

May June July August

September October November December

January, 2000

Jan, 20-21 Correlator PDR Charlottesville, USA

Jan, 31 Division Heads/Team Managers Meeting Teleconference

February, 2000

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

March, 2000

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, 27-31 SPIE Meeting: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2000 Munich, Germany

April, 2000

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, 2000

May, 1-2 Site Development Discussions Garching, Germany

June, 2000

Jun, 12-16 2nd IRAM Millimeter Interferometry Summer School IRAM Grenoble, France

Jun, 20-27 7th Synthesis Imaging Summer School Socorro, USA

July, 2000

August, 2000

September, 2000

October, 2000

November, 2000

December, 2000

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Travel

AW -> AAS 12-16 Jan 2000. AW -> Tokyo 16-21 Feb 2000. AW -> Leiden 8 - 13 March 2000. ------

January	February	March	April
May	June	July	August
September	October	November	December

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, 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

Jun, 12-16	2nd IRAM Millimeter Interferometry Summer School	IRAM Grenoble, France
Jun, 20-27	7th Synthesis Imaging Summer School	Socorro, USA