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ALMA Science IPT Telecon

Phone Meeting 2003-November-11 

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Old Business

The enhanced Agenda from last month's meeting is available, as well as rough notes.

- Action items from various sources:
 Last Meeting:  
Mini-ALMA Week Action Items and Decisions: Science IPT: Complete comments on Antenna Technical specs and corresponding ICDs. All IPTs 15-10-03                                                            See Over-the-top recommendations.    Antenna Technical Specs are due to the IPTs later today.                                                               Document to implement five load amplitude calibration device described in ALMA Memo #461 needs to be written SCIE, FEND 26-9-03                                                       See proposed Amplitude Calibration Measurements and CRE.

                        Highlight remaining controversial issues in FE Req documents submitted to CCB. All IPTs 30-9-03  HAW commented.  Did you?
                        All IPT leaders or designees to provide to Emerson description of system operational needs by 10 October 2003. Science IPT Report.
                             Operations group meeting was 1400 UT 2003-Nov-11.

Correlator CDR:   Final Report (doesn't seem to be on ALMAEDM...)

Board: Simulate imaging using two prototype antennas as examples, if array were to consist of half of one type and half of the other.

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

for September 12.

New Business -- Agenda

Calendar

- Project news/updates (Al, Robert)
          Announcements (Robert)
           Board Meeting (Al)
           Groundbreaking (Al, Ewine, John, Peter) Photos
            Science IPT face-to-face meeting?

Reports from Subgroups

   -1 Project Scientists (see above)
         Operations; ATF (Evaluation receiver specifications).  
          Gain and Phase stability telecon.
          D'Addario proto-memos  Phase Calibration,  Atmosphere (with Holdaway).
          Public Relations.  New IPT has been formed.  We have a logo (but I don't!).  We have a formal description of ALMA, to go into all official documents.

    -2 Calibration (Mangum)

      -  Calibration plan (PB Chapter 3 revision) and milestones;  telecon agenda and minutes (Mangum)
      -  bandpass (Aurore, Stephane)
      -  Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:  Jack Welch tells me that he and Gibson are working on the 3mm horn and expect first tests
                  ca. April 2004.

     -3.Design Reference Science Plan (Ewine )
           DRSP --  report from Ewine (Ewine)

    -4 Imaging (Gueth, Holdaway)         
         - report on activities (Holdaway)

   -5. SSR (Lucas)
       - Report on SSR activities, face-to-face meeting (Robert)
       - SSR Document review.  
       - Data Format Review.  Data Format for ALMA.  Comments please.

       
   -6. Configurations (Conway)

    -7 Site (Radford, Nyman)
         - report on activities

     -8  Any Other Matters Arising

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