ASAC Tokyo Face-to-Face Meeting Strawman Agenda v1.5  - 15 Mar 2002


March 18th (Mon)

venue: NAOJ Mitaka headquarters

The Before-ASAC Meeting: ALMA Liaison Group Meeting proposed.
 

March 19th

9:00-9:15 am Welcome and establishing a plan for writing the report (Blake, Cox, Fukui)

9:15-10:00 am Project update, including a brief overview of the planning for the presentation of the bilateral project to the NSB, ESO. (Rafal, Kurz)

10:00-10:30 am Current project status in Japan (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 (Brown--Bronfman)

11:30-12:00 am Begin individual progress report areas: Prototype antennae update ( Rafal, Baars, Ukita--Walmsley, Fukui)

12:00-12:30 am Prototype receivers, LO (Not production report) (Wild, Cunningham -- van Dishoeck, Blake )

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

1:30- 1:45 pm Discussion prototype receivers(van Dishoeck, Blake )

1:45- 2:00 pm IF subsystem, baseline correlator (Gray -- Bachiller, Mundy)

2:00- 2:15 pm Calibration, WVR system (Guilloteau, Wootten -- Richer )

2:15- 2:35 pm Revised testing program in Socorro (Mangum, Baars, Ukita --  Walmsley, Fukui )

2:35- 2:55 pm Options for Proposal Review Committees (Evans)

2:55- 3:15 pm Tea/coffee break

3:15- 3:45 pm Discussions of  Options for Proposal Review Committees(Cox, Evans, Fukui)

3:45- 3:55 pm Overview  presentation on RSC Core Functionalities (Evans)

3:55- 4:10 pm European presentation on RSCs (Cox)

4:10- 4:25 pm Japanese presentation on RSCs (Fukui)

4:25-4:40 pm North American Survey results (Evans)

4:40- 5:30 pm Discussion and adjournment

5:30- 6:30 pm Interactions with press (Parallel with Lab visit)

5:30 - 6:30 pm Lab visit (Development of ASTE receivers, ALMA cartridge test cryostat, etc.) (Parallel with press interactions)

6:30 - Reception; dinner

venue: NAOJ Mitaka headquarters

Japanese newspapers are interested in the ALMA project and the Japanese status in it. A brief (<60 min) meeting with some ASAC members and the
press may be set right after the first day's ASAC and before dinner. We can state that ALMA is starting now, with Japan having a delay. Good words
from European and north American members on the expectation for the Japanese participation would be very helpful.
After the meeting, the press can join the ASAC dinner buffet. We may enjoy  friendly atmosphere and exchanging information.

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March 20th

9:00- 10:00 am Summary of RSC discussion, recommendations (Cox, Evans, Fukui)

9:30- 9:45 am AIPS++ testing report (as part of a longer software section?) (Guilloteau -- Tatematsu)

9:45 - 10:15 am NRAO Data Management Plans, including the End-To-End project   (Cornwell -- Tatematsu)

10:15-10:45 am More general software issues. Pipeline? Archiving? SOC? (ties to RSCs)  (Tatematsu)

10:45-11:00 am  Tea/coffee break

11:00-11:30 am Baseline receiver bands production report, Europe and N. America (Wild, Cunningham -- van Dishoeck, Blake)

11:30-11:45 am Receiver production report, Japan (Sekimoto -- Nakai)

11:45 -12:30 pm Discussion

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

1:30- 2:00 pm Results of Configuration CDR, imaging performance  (Wootten, Guilloteau -- Yun, Booth)

2:00- 3:00 pm Toward a three-way ALMA: ACA, receiver bands, correlator (Brown, Kurz, Ishiguro -- Evans, Cox, Fukui)

3:00- 3:15 pm Tea/coffee break

3:15- 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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March 21st (Thurs)

venue: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
 

March 21 is a Japanese holiday, celebrating the equinox, and we will have a "ALMA Science Day" event at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation located at the waterfront of Tokyo.

<Associated General Lecture or Science day>

date: afternoon of March 21 (Thu) - Japanese holiday to celebrate equinox

venue: A hall with 300 seats in the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation has been tentatively reserved.  This new museum opened in July 2001 at the Tokyo waterfront will co-host the Lecture session.
http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/

The main goal of the session is to convey the exciting forefront of astronomical research and the prospect of more exciting science with ALMA  to the general public with interest in science, with ages ranging from ~15 to 60 or up averaging at high school students. Families visiting the museum on that day can drop in if they get interested. Press are also invited of course.

The session may be composed of two parts.

1. Lectures on Astronomy and ALMA (100 min total)
A brief description of the ALMA project will be given. After that, scientific talks are given by European, North American, and Japanese speakers. The European and North American speakers give lecture in English followed by Japanese translation page by page (of viewgraphs/PowerPoint).
We need to nominate the speakers.

2. Discussion (60-90 min)

After a short break, we will have a discussion session. It can be in a panel discussion style with the former speakers and a few more (e.g., the director of the museum, Dr. Mouri, who is an astronaut himself, if we succeed to persuade him to come) on stage, exchanging discussions on ALMA in terms of science, technology, and society. In the course of the discussion, we pick up the questions from the audience written in question sheets and collected during the break. (The discussion will be made mainly in Japanese. We will assign graduate students to give a minimum of interpretation to follow the discussion. Picked questions from the audience are translated. )
 

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A partial list of things to read before the meeting (Under construction)


The Project Book, Version 5.5: 


The Project Book, Version 5.5, is available on the Web.
It is not planned to print this version. Rather, it should be considered an intermediate version towards a more complete Version 6 which we hope to issue during the summer. You are cordially invited to read the PB and in particular to scrutinise those sections for which you are the ASAC liaison.
Please report any error you discover to Jaap Baars, so we can make corrections. Version 6 will in particular contain updated versions of the Backend Chapter, based on the PDR during the ALMA Week, and of the Configuration and Calibration chapters.

Operations: 


The Operations Group has  promised to issue its report, which you may obtain in pdf or in postscript format. You may wish to review the report presented in Chile in pdf or in postscript formats.

Calibration:

 Calibration will be the subject of a meeting during ALMA Week.

Receivers:

Front End Reading:

From a FE group telecon on 5 July 2001, courtesy of W. Wild:

- Short status report of FE work in Japan
- Short status report of FE work at  IRAM
- Short staus report of  FE work in SRON

Additional material:
 - Summary RAL Meeting on Cryo and optics (W.Wild)
 - Development of Mixer Block Production Technology (Wild, Hesper, Schaeffer, Barychev) Band 9 DSB waveguide mixers

Software

Please see documents at the SSR home page.
Hint: Look under Working documents for draft Pipeline and offline data requirement drafts.
Please read the aips++ report from Lucas and Kemball.

Correlator

 

Water Vapor Radiometry

The current version of the WVRs

Documents from previous meetings: The Cambridge and Onsala groups have proposed the next generation of 183 GHz Line Monitors (PS). However the documentation has been moved from John Richer's www site and is currently unavailable.
 

Site and Configurations

Butler has assembled a useful reading list.

Please visit the Configuration Design Review Recommendations .

ALMA Week

You may consult the current timetable of ALMA Week and travel information. The deadline for hotel reservation is rather close (March 21st).

Possible Participants
 

Bachiller, Rafael
Blake, Geoffrey
Booth, Roy
Bronfman, Leo
Brown, Robert
Chikada, Yoshihiro
Cornwell, Tim
Cox, Pierre
Evans, Neal
Fukui, Yasuo
Guilloteau, Stephane
Hasegawa, Tetsu
Ishiguro, Masato
Kawabe, Ryohei
Kurtz, Richard
Mangum, Jeffrey
Mardones, Diego
Matsuo, Hiroshi
Nakai, Naomasa
Rafal, Marc
Richer John
Sakamoto, Seiichi
Schilke, Peter
Sekimoto,  Yutaro
Shaver, Peter
Tatematsu, Ken
van Dishoeck, Ewine
Walmsley, Malcolm
Wootten, Al
Yamamoto, Satoshi
Yun, Min Su

Revised 6 March 2002 HAW
HOTEL, TRAVEL PLANNING
 

For the participants of the meeting, we have made a block reservation of hotel rooms near the JR Mitaka station.

ROYNET HOTEL MUSASHINO
Phone +81-422-36-0022, FAX +81-422-36-0020
Room rate JPY 9,000 per night (breakfast not included) + Tax
From Narita, you can take JR Narita Express (NEX) to Tokyo (60 min), and change to JR Chuo Line to Mitaka (30 min).
The hotel is 5 min walk north from JR Mitaka station. To get NAO, you can take a bus or taxi from the station.

ALMA-J office is happy to make the logistical support. For this purpose, we would like to ask you about your plan for the Tokyo ASAC meeting.
Please fill in the form below and send it to Ms. Sachiyo Ueshiba by February 4.

Tetsuo Hasegawa, ALMA-J Office

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