ALMA Science IPT Telecon

Phone Meeting 2004-March-09

	ALMA Science IPT Telecon Phone Meeting 2004-March-09

Connection Details

Call date: 2004-March-09 (Tuesday)
Call time: 15:00 UT 1000EST 0400CET
Duration: 1 hr
USA Number: 877-874-1919
Outside USA Number: +1-203-320-9891 NOTE NEW NUMBER
Passcode: 185064
Leader: Al Wootten

Old Business

The enhanced Agenda from last month's meeting is available. Science IPT notes from last month's telecon.

- Action items from various sources:

Last Meeting:
            Action items ACTION on all members of the Science IPT is to read the System Description and funnel comments to Wootten and Wilson on this so that they may be addressed during the Review. Hopefully done.
             ACTION: Wootten will investigate developing a specification for faster sampling. Done. Remains at 2ms in draft Review committee comments.
             ACTION: Conway will describe Early Science Configurations. Done.
             ACTION: Ancillary instrumentation group work with Commissioning group on staging of characterization instruments. Telecon tomorrow.
             ACTION: Interested individuals contact Laing re Commissioning Group; Wootten to canvass interest. Not yet done.
             MILESTONES: all leaders of level 3 milestones with upcoming deadlines to report on status. The Milestones, with project number, are available updated for November 7.

New Business -- Agenda

ALMA Calendar

11-12 March -- AMAC Meeting, Charlottesville NTC
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 Meeting, U. of Maryland
25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
22-23 June -- ALMA Board Meeting, Europe

- Project news/updates (Wootten and Wilson)
LAMA Memo Series has inhabitants!

   * Operations group continues refinement of plan
                    * which includes an action item to identify modes for Early Science (Wootten, Glendenning)
* Science commissioning and verification plan (see item below)
     * ASAC -- meeting date set, charges from the Board,

Reports from Subgroups

   -1 Project Scientists (see above)
     * System Review 1-3 March 2004 during mini-ALMA week Agenda.
     * miniALMA Week. Science IPT report (see other reports also). Correlator tunable filter option examples.
     *AMAC Meeeting
     *Chile status, ATF status
     * minimini ALMA Week in Japan. ACA Project Plan Document
     * Operations Group and the Operations Plan

    -2 Calibration (Mangum)
      - The Requirements and Specifications August 03 Version (Wootten)
      - Draft Bandpass Calibration Memo. from Bacmann and Guilloteau (under review)
                  - Very drafty Calibration plan.
      - Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:   Progress? (Martin-Pintado)
      - Memo: ALMA Calibration Source Counts at 250 GHz (Holdaway)

-3.Design Reference Science Plan (Wilson, Hogerheijde )
Dedicated website?

-4 Imaging (Gueth, Holdaway)

   -5. SSR (Lucas)
       - Report on SSR activities (Robert)
       - Test of ObsPrep and Offline reports

   -6. Configurations (Conway)

A draft version of the Spec document of ALMA first science configuration

-7 Site (Radford, Nyman)
- Site instrumentation telecons tomorrow.

   -8 Operations, Science Commissioning and Verification (Laing)
       - Draft ALMA Commissioning and Science Verification Plan
         - ALMA Week presentation

-9 Any Other Matters Arising
NRAO ALMA Communications Newsletter
ALMA Workshop 14-15 May 2004. Agenda(Wootten)

Date of next phone meeting

2004, April 20th 14:00 UT

Upcoming Meetings

Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

Astronomical Polarimetry - Current Status and Future Directions March 15-19, 2004. Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Hawaii.

ALMA Workshop May 14-15, University of Maryland

Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century 18-21 May 2004 Berlin, Germany

Cores, Disks, Jets & Outflows in Low & High Mass Star Forming Environments: Observations, Theory and Simulations July 12-16, 2004 Banff, Alberta, Canada

The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Beginnings 2004 October 4-8 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

Dusty and Molecular Universe 27-29 October 2004, Paris

Protostars and Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii