ASAC Socorro Face-to-Face Meeting Strawman Agenda v0.6  - 6/8 Sept 2002
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September 6th (Friday)

Venue: ALMA Test Facility

	Vertex Antenna Tour

Leave AOC after lunch ca 3 p.m., return late afternoon?


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September 7th (Saturday)

(Note: Some discussion sessions may be closed to non-ASAC members).

 8:45-9:00 am  Welcome (K. Y. Lo)

 9:00-9:15 am  Welcome and establishing a plan for writing 
               the report (P. Cox, C. Wilson)

 9:15-10:00 am Project update. (P. van den Bout, M. Tarenghi)

10:00-10:30 am Current project status in Japan (M. Ishiguro)

10:30-10:45 am Discussion

10:45-11:00 am Tea/coffee break

11:00-11:30 am Project status in Chile, including site legalities
               (P. van den Bout, L. Bronfman)

11:30-12:00 pm Prototype antennae update (J. Mangum, R. Kurz, M. Saito (or Y. Fukui) -- M. Walmsley, Y. Fukui)

12:00-12:30 pm Planned testing program at ATF (J. Mangum, 
               -- M. Walmsley, Y. Fukui ) 

12:30- 1:00 pm Discussion Antennas, ATF (M. Walmsley, Y. Fukui)

 1:00- 2:00 pm Lunch, tea/coffee

 2:00- 2:30 pm Prototype receivers, LO (C. Cunningham 
               -- E. van Dishoeck, G. Blake )

 2:30- 3:00 pm Discussion prototype receivers (E. van Dishoeck, G. Blake)

 3:00- 3:20 pm Tea/coffee break

 3:20- 3:30 pm Charges from the ACC: Introduction (S. Guilloteau)
               followed by     
               Discussions of Response to ACC Charges (P. Cox, C. Wilson)

 3:30- 3:50 pm Site evaluation and stringency - (N. Evans, S. Radford)

 3:50- 4:00 pm Long Baseline Y+ configuration - (M. Holdaway -- R. Booth, M. Yun)

 4:00- 4:10 pm The ALMA configuration - (Conway or Booth -- R. Booth, M. Yun)

 4:10- 4:20 pm Prioritization of the ALMA enhancements (van Dishoeck, Blake)

 4:20- 4:40 pm Enhancements to the baseline ALMA instrument 
               - (T. Hasegawa -- S. Yamamoto, P. Cox, N. Evans)

 4:40- 5:15 pm Early Science (P.Cox, All)

 5:15- 6:00 pm Discussion and adjournment

 6:30 ----- pm Reception; dinner

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September 8th(Sunday)

 8:30- 9:30 am Summary of ACC Charge discussion, Recommendations 
	     (P. Cox, C. Wilson, S. Yamamoto)

 9:30- 10:00 am AIPS++ Testing Report
             (A. Kemball, R. Lucas)

10:00- 10:30 am Additional software issues: Pipeline, Archiving, SOC, ...
             (B. Glendenning, R. Lucas ....)

10:30- 11:00 am Discussion of software issues.

11:00- 11:15 am Tea/coffee break

11:15- 11:45 am Calibration & Polarisation (S. Guilloteau)

11:45- 12:00 am IF subsystem, baseline correlator (D. Sramek -- R. Bachiller,
                L. Mundy)

12:00 -12:15 pm Discussion

12:30- 1:30 pm Lunch, tea/coffee

1:30- 2:00 pm Upcoming Site Review (S. Radford -- )

2:00- 2:45 pm Toward a three-way ALMA: ACA, receiver bands, correlator 
              (P. van den Bout, M. Ishiguro -- N. Evans, P. Cox, S. Yamamoto)

2:45- 3:15 pm RSC Discussion (Cox, van Dishoeck)

3:15- 3:30 pm Tea/coffee break

3:30- 4:30 pm Meeting of subgroups and initial writing assignments

4:30- 5:30 pm Meeting of the whole, summary of recommendations/report

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