BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO

                            March 15 - 28, 2004


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Victor Gasho has been appointed North American Lead for the ALMA Antenna IPT.

The ALMA Band 9 Preliminary Design Review will be held at the lead institute for its design
and production for ALMA:  NOVA, in Groningen, Netherlands on 18-19 March 2004.  
This band covers the frequency range 602-720 GHz in a double sideband
mixer design with a 4-12 GHz IF bandwidth.  The final design should fulfill ALMA requirements:
Trx < 168 K DSB (over 80 % of full RF band).

Information on the ALMA Workshop at University of Maryland 14-15 May 2004
may be found at www.nrao.edu/almaworkshop/
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General Happenings

Chajnantor   People can now work from the ALMA Camp at the site of the future OSF.
	      Within a month, those who work there may also sleep there. The first
	      JAO/IPT telecon from the ALMA Camp occurred 15 March.
                         
ATF          The evaluation receivers will be mounted on the AEC antenna this week
              to begin the process of radiometric evaluation, which continues on the
              VertexRSI antenna.
              
NTC          Preparations are under way for the preliminary design review of the Band 6
	      cartridge in early April.  The first correlator wafer run was successful and
	      shortly there will be 17,000 correlator chips arriving for inclusion in the
	      ALMA correlator.


DAILY CALENDAR

 Mon 15 10:30 AM-12:00 PM: JAO / IPT Teleconference
 Tue 16
3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Front End Group Meeting
16:00-17:00: PM NAScienceIPT teleconference (open to all interested parties)
                        (434)296-7082
                        Agenda: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/
                          Go to meeting date (last of five years of agendas) 
 Wed 17  
 Thu 18 8:30 AM-10:00 AM: JAO Teleconference
 Fri 19
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 Mon 22 1:00 PM-2:30 PM: NA DH Teleconference
 Tue 23 3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Front End Group Meeting
 16:00-17:00: PM NAScienceIPT teleconference (open to all interested parties)
                        (434)296-7082
                        Agenda: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/
                          Go to meeting date (last of five years of agendas) 
 Wed 24  
 Thu 25
 8:30 AM-10:00 AM: JAO Teleconference
 Fri 26  Sat  
 
****************************** UPCOMING EVENTS ******************************
#ALMA Calendar  

    * 18-19 March -- ALMA Band 9 PDR, Netherlands
    * 29-30 March -- ALMA Band 3 PDR, Victoria, B. C.
    * 1-2 April -- ALMA Band 6 PDR, NTC, Charlottesville
    * 30 March -- 1 April  ALMA Board meets, Socorro, N. M.
    * 7 April -- ASAC telecon.  Agenda of March meeting.
    * 10-11 May -- ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Cambridge, England
    * 14-15 May  -- ALMA/NA Workshop, U. of Maryland
    * 25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
    * 22-23 June -- ALMA Board Meeting, Europe
    * 8-10 July -- Software IPT CDR II, Denver, Colorado.


******************************* TECHNICAL NEWS *******************************
No ALMA memos were released during this period.
One LAMA memo was released:
LAMA Memo No. 805.  ALMA Calibration Source Counts at 250 GHz

M. A. Holdaway (NRAO), C. Carilli (NRAO), F. Bertoldi (MPIfR)

For a pdf copy of this memo, please visit:
http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/lamaMemos/lamaMemo805.pdf

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