Date: NOV-21-2000 (Tuesday) 21 November 2000.
Time: 12:00 EST (10:00 MST, 1700UT)
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Conference leader: Al Wootten
Past minutes, etc on ALMA Configuration Group Page
Agenda
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News Items.
Updates On strawperson configuration simulations from Steven Heddle's simulation engine. Reports by Steven can be found at his ALMA page. Are the procedures used sensible? How do we improve on this? How do we make use of the outputs?
Simulation Strategy outline at the Tucson meeting is found here. What changes should we adopt based on our experiences so far?
Future Plans
The plans for the layout of the pads must be finalized by the beginning of construction. We hope that the first construction funds will arrive on 2001 Oct 1 when the FY2002 begins here. The project WBS has this date as 2002 Jan 1. Realistically, I think we need to inspect the pad sites before finalizing their location. We have begun this, but it is a huge task. It would be best to have some decision on the pad locations before the next austral summer, but that doesn't seem entirely practical. Radford and Butler will be on Chajnantor in mid-December. What sites should they inspect? In my opinion, all these things suggest that we should have the next meeting PDR early in 2001. The ASAC will meet ~Feb 23, so time is getting tight should we want a chance to respond to the PDR in time to present that response to the ASAC.