MMA Imaging and Calibration Group

Agenda for meeting Tuesday, 4 April 2000 at 4pm EDT.

Date: 4 April 2000

Time: 4:00 pm EDT (2:00 pm Socorro, 3:00 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 21 April.

Chapter 2 can be read, and a preliminary version of Chapter 3 (not yet) 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. Min has received only a few images so far. Al will try to get FITS image of Mundy's protoplanetary disk. Telephone meeting: 18 April at 11 am EDT is free in the conference room.

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ASAC - Wootten

The DRAFT ASAC report is here. The final report will be made available after the ACC approves it.

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FY2000-2001 Budget

As you may recall, it was decided to go with a two year budget, since the FY2001 one was too small to survive on. We need to know about items we will need to purchase ASAP.

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System and TEDT Correlator PDReview - Wootten

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

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Action Items 4Apr2000

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

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

May, 1-2	Site Development Discussions	Garching, Germany
May 15-17	Test Interferometer Planning	Tucson, Arizona

Jun, 12-16	2nd IRAM Millimeter Interferometry Summer School	IRAM Grenoble, France
June 19-20	Vertex Antenna PDR	Duisburg, Germany
Jun, 20-27	7th Synthesis Imaging Summer School	Socorro, USA
June 21-22	EIE Antenna PDR	Venice, Italy

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Travel

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