MMA Imaging and Calibration Group

Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 3 February at 4:00 pm EST.

Date: 3 February 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

30 Jan -- ANASAC Telecon. Agenda.
4 Feb -- ASAC Telecon. Agenda.
18-20 February -- Selected IPT Leads attend meeting in Japan
26 February -- ALMA Board telecon 2004 Board Meeting Dates
1-5 March-- ALMA System Review/mini-ALMA Week, near Munich
11-12 March -- AMAC Meeting, Charlottesville NTC
30 March -- 1 April ALMA Board meets, Socorro, N. M.
10-11 May -- ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Cambridge, England
14-15 May -- 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 )
    NRC President (and ALMA friend) Arthur Carty appointed to new post of national science advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Martin, effective 1April.
            Science IPT notes from Last month's telecon.
            Science IPT Quarterly Report Q4 2003. (Wootten)

Discussion Items - (Wootten)

Calibration (Butler)       - Calibration plan DAR and milestones.
               Problem areas phase, passband calibration, singledish...
Phase stability. --new System Design document.
                Problem areas: 90 degree phase switching. Change request written by Lucas.
                                                 WVR level of correction of phase jitter. Agreement between Science IPT and SE.
                                                 Square law detector
Communications Newsletter
          May Meeting Strawman format for comments.
Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:
                No action at IRAM--where do we go from here?

Science IPT activities (Wootten )

          Global Warming and ALMA --Lama Memo No. 804 (Holdaway)
Operations/Software meeting (Wootten)
         Antenna selection committee.
         Data Format for ALMA. Gueth comments received.
          NA-ASC Strawman science plan.

ATF (Mangum)
Site characterization (Radford)
Public Relations.
Science IPT Telecon next Tuesday 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

Oh, always

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