ALMA Science Advisory Committee


Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Weds 4 December 2002

Conference Date: December-4-2002 (Wednesday)

Here's the dial-in information for the telecon:
 CALL TIME: 10:30 AM EASTERN TIME 1530 Universal Time (Follow the link for times in other time zones as various nations change to and from summer time)
 CALL DATE:         04-December-2002  (Wednesday)
  DURATION:              1 hr
 USA Toll Free #:877-917-5782
International #: +1--630-395-0482
PASSCODE: 10120
LEADER:  Al Wootten

Agenda items:

Old Business

(1) Please approve the minutes of the November   Telecon
 Agenda and Minutes of recent telecons may be viewed at the ALMA Sitescape documentation site.

New Business

(1)Status Report -- Van den Bout
Project update -- Van den Bout
Report on European (Wootten) and North American antenna (Mangum) status

(2)Reports from recent Backend and Frontend Reviews -- Wootten, Guilloteau

(3)Proposed correlator upgrade -- Wootten
Please review memo 441 by Escoffier and Webber and be prepared with your comments.

(4)Report from Science IPT -- van Dishoeck, including
status of Y+ configuration optimization and other configuration news
report from calibration group
science examples for calibration -- Wilson, Richer

(5)Update on upcoming software IDRs -- Wilson, Schilke
A PDF file is available that outlines where to find all the documents that are currently available for the software Internal Design review. Comments on these documents by individual ASAC members should be sent to the document's primary author and CC'd to lucas@iram.fr and jpisano@nrao.edu.

(6)Dates of face-to-face meeting and ASAC composition -- Wilson, Cox

(7)AIPS++ Audit -- Gurwell
A complete draft of the ALMA AIPS++ Audit is available .
This draft has a single summary comment for each requirement for which there were comments. If you want to see the individual comments (which include comments in varius section headers etc.) and provisional grades given by different auditors, you can look at the version here . in case you want to check how Steve Myers has reconciled the views.
Steve Myers has produced a synopsis and "executive summary"; he writes: There is a draft version of the ALMA AIPS++ Audit with a Summary section at the end. You can find it at this place.
If you wish to know the breakdown of grades in detail, and want to see some graphs, look at the Excel spreadsheet at this place.

(7)The next teleconference is nominally 8 January.