MMA Imaging and Calibration Group
Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 17 February at 4:00 pm EST.
Date: 3 February 2004
Time: 4:00
pm EST (2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)
Phone: (434)972-7268 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone
2nd
floor). No Video planned...
Past minutes, etc on MMA
Imaging and Calibration Division Page
Agenda
Notes from the meeting are in this font!
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Science IPT Items - Wootten
ALMA Calendar
- 4 Feb -- ASAC Telecon. Agenda.
- 18-20 February -- Selected IPT Leads attend meeting in Japan
- 26 February -- ALMA Board telecon 2004
Board Meeting Dates
- 1-5 March-- ALMA System Review/mini-ALMA Week, near Munich Agenda.
- 11-12 March -- AMAC Meeting, Charlottesville NTC
- 30 March -- 1 April ALMA Board meets, Socorro, N. M.
- 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 (Al
)
Most have gone off
to Tokyo...
Science IPT notes
from Last month's telecon.
Time for an NSF bimonthly report--please send me a short suggested
contribution.
ALMA
in Chile Meeting in D. C. at AUI.
Discussion Items - (Wootten)
Calibration
(Mangum)
- Very scuzzy draft Calibration
plan.
- The Specs and Reqs August
03 Version(Wootten) now in almaedm as a Change Request for PB
Chapter 3
Note that this is a major component of our
miniALMA
week activity
Phase stability. --new
System
Design document.
Problem areas: 90 degree phase switching. Change
request submitted. Software agreed.
WVR level of correction of phase jitter. Agreement
between Science IPT and SE.
Square law detector
Communications Newsletter
May
Meeting
Strawman
format for comments.
Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration
devices:
No action at IRAM--where do we go from here?
Science IPT activities (Wootten )
Data
Format for ALMA. Gueth comments received.
NA-ASC Strawman
science plan.
ATF (Mangum)
Site characterization (Radford)
Public Relations.
Next
Science IPT Telecon Tuesday 9 March 1500UT.
Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
Astronomical
Polarimetry - Current Status and Future Directions March 15-19,
2004.
Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Hawaii.
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
Dusty and
Molecular Universe 27-29 October 2004, Paris
Protostars
and Planets
V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big
Island,
Hawaii
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Travel
Oh, always
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