ALMA Science IPT Telecon

Phone Meeting 2003-June-10

Connection Details

Old Business

The enhanced Agenda from last month's meeting is available, as are Minutes.

- Action items from before the previous meeting have been grandfathered into the present list:
 
- Action items from previous meeting:
- Calibration
Action -- MH to consider Science losses in continuum images.  Please note ALMA Memo No. 466.
ACTION -- AB: Standing wave, bandpass memos to be distributed for comment at next Science IPT meeting.
ACTION -- BB: Reference document for calibration is not available outside the Science IPT.  This should be placed on ALMAEDM for reference purposes.

- SSR

Action -- Comments in to Richer by 20 May; revised data rate report due by next meeting.

- Operations/Design Reference Mission working group (someone from WG)
Action -- Design reference mission needs to get off ground.         Stephane and Ewine circulated a proposed plan of action.  

   - MILESTONES: all leaders of level 3 milestones with upcoming deadlines to report on status.  The Milestones, with project number, are available updated
for June 10.

New Business -- Agenda

Calendar

- Project news/updates (Guilloteau)

- Report from ALMA Week (Al, Stephane)

[Calibration, WVR to be reported separately under points 2 and 3]

Items mentioned by other IPTs and groups requiring Science IPT followup.
(see Presentations)


Reports from Subgroups

   -1 Project Scientists (see above)

    -2 Calibration (Butler)

      - ALMA Week discussions (Bryan), including update on semi-transparent vane (Jesus)
      - Status calibration plan and milestones (Bryan)
      - standing wave, bandpass (Aurore, Stephane)
      - others (Bryan)
      - WVR review (John R, Richard)

     -3.Design Reference Science Plan (Ewine, Stephane)
              proposed plan of action outline circulated by Ewine
       - statistics CSO, JCMT, ... line/continuum (Al, Ewine)

    -4. SSR (Lucas)
       - Data rate report: final version? (John R)
       - Report on SSR activities (Robert)

   -5. Configurations (Conway)
   -6 Imaging (Gueth)

         - report on activities (Frederic)
         - simulations gain stability (Marc)

    -7 Site (Nyman)

         - report on activities (Lars-Ake, Simon)
         - Ancillary Devices latest draft (Hills, Richer)

-8 Others (outreach, ...)
         -ALMA LO tests (Wootten)
     -9  Any Other Matters Arising  

Upcoming Meetings

JUN 27-27, 2003 2003 IEEE AP-S INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND USNC/CNC/URSI NATIONAL RADIO SCIENCE MEETING

JUL 13-26, 2003 Twenty-Fifth General Assembly of the IAU Abstracts due long ago.

JUL 27/25, 2003 IAU Symposium (271): Star Formation at High Angular Resolution, Sydney, Australia. Tyler Bourke is a co-chair of the scientific organizing committee. Good opportunity to show ALMA capabilities.

SEP 22-26, 2003 4th Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt-Symposium on The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies