Draft face-to-face agenda February 24, 2003

ASAC Meeting, 2-3 April 2003 at IRAM, Grenoble, France

2 April 2003

9:00 am 1. Terms of reference and IPT liaisons (Wilson, Cox)

9:45 am 2. Project status report (van den Bout, Tarenghi, Guilloteau)

            ** Question: do we need all three of them? may be useful if we have

            many new members vdBout may be a ‘lame duck’

10:45 am Break

11:00 am Discussion

11:30 am 3. Report on site planning to date (J. Eschwey or S. Radford)

12:15 pm Discussion

12:30 pm Lunch

13:30 pm 4. Report from Japan (TBD)

14:00 pm Discussion

14:15 pm 5. Outreach (Shaver, Wootten)

        - IAUXXV GA this year

        - ALMA science meeting (2004?)

        - RSCs; Survey from November ESO Meeting

14:45 pm 7. Calibration plan (Butler)

            - review of Science IPT (van Dishoeck) (or in item 2?)

            - review of calibration plan

            - presentation on planet models

            - ATM presentation

            - absolute calibration suggestion from Welch, modification proposed by Guilloteau

15:45 pm Break

16:00 pm Discussion

16:30 pm 6. Front End (Tan)

            - revisit issue of TP stability spec (Guilloteau)

            - other specifications: are TBDs filled in properly; any changes

                        requested for existing specs

17:30 pm Discussion

18:00 pm Break for Dinner

3 April 2003

 9:00 am 8. Configuration (Conway; TBD from Japan)

            - report on logic of antenna motion, including scheduling and

                        stringency constraints (Conway)

            - draft Y+ configuration plan: science goals/impacts (Conway/Holdaway)

            - ACA design and configuration (Japan) (10 mins)

 9:30 am Discussion

 9:45 am 9. Correlators (Wootten; TBD)

            - upgrade to baseline correlator (Wootten; 15 mins)

            - second generation correlator (Europe/Japan; 15 mins)

10:15 am Discussion

10:30 am10. Report from software PDR March 18-20, 2003 (G. Raffi)

11:00 am Break

11:15 am Discussion of Software PDR

11:30 am 11. Presentation on simulators (Viallefond; Pety)

            - ALMA simulator (Viallefond) 15 mins

            - Grenoble simulator (Pety) 15 mins

**Comment: if we run short on time, I think this item could be left until

            another meeting

12:00 pm Discussion

12:15 pm Lunch

13:15 pm 12. AIPS++ (Lucas; TBD from aips++ review)

            - phase I final report (Lucas)

            - phase II+III progress reports (Lucas)

            - report from AIPS++ consortium technical committee review of AIPS++ (Myers?)

13:45 pm Discussion

14:15 pm 13. Drafting of report (Closed Session)

15:45 pm Break

16:00 pm 14. Election of new Chair (Europe) and Vice-Chair (North America)

16:15 pm Presentation of Findings (All)