Agenda for meeting Tuesday, 11 April 2000 at 4pm EDT.
Date: 11 April 2000
Time: 4:00 pm EDT (2:00 pm Socorro, 3:00 pm Tucson)
Phone: (804)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone).
Past minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page
Minutes
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News from the ACC, the DH meeting, and the 10 April ASAC meeting.
Project book updates on track--ALMA by 21 April.
Chapter 2 can be read, and a preliminary version of Chapter 3 (not yet) as well as Min's revision of Chapter 15.
We need to turn in a March report by 12 April--here is what I have--comments?
Calibration and Imaging Division Monthly Report for March 2000.
Activities in March included preparation for and attendance at the first ALMA Science Advisory Committee (ASAC) meeting in Leiden March 10-11. The ASAC reaffirmed their support of the project and issued a 45 page report containing advice to the project on various matters. Yun chaired a Conceptual Design Review of the ALMA Configuration, held in Tucson 20-21 March, at which plans were laid out to reach a Design Review in the early fall of 2000. Butler presented site data at the Configuration review, and prepared a new digital mask, incorporating changes suggested at the review, for configuration siting work. He also compared Chajnantor and Pampa la Bola phase stability data, and worked further on water vapor radiometry. Radford organized a Site Characterization Review was held in Tucson on 22 March to review progress and to identify priorities for testing in the coming year, which emphasize reaching understanding of the water vapor content above Chajnantor, especially at 183 GHz. He continued development of the nutating secondary plan for the prototype antennas. Mangum worked on Prototype Interferometer Evaluation Plan (PIEP), the ALMA Pointing Model, and calibration schemes for ALMA.
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Tucson meeting review. A simulation process was agreed to, to evaluate imaging properties of the various arrays. Min has received only a few images so far. Al will try to get FITS image of Mundy's protoplanetary disk. Telephone meeting: 20 April at 11 am EDT is planned in the conference room.
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The FINAL ASAC report is available.
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As you may recall, it was decided to go with a two year budget, since the FY2001 one was too small to survive on. We need to know about items we will need to purchase ASAP. So far I have input on Site Characterization only.
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Jeff wrote a calibration memo which we will discuss.
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Action Items 11Apr2000
DECISION: Configurations--where are we? April meeting plans...
DECISION: Implementation of 183 GHz WVR?
DECISION: Is a nutating secondary necessary?
DECISION: What is the total power specification on the ALMA?
DECISION: What is the effect of 1/f noise in the HEMT amplifiers of SIS receivers upon our ability to combine total power and interferometric images into a faithful representation of the sky?
Year 2000
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Jan, 20-21 | Correlator PDR | Charlottesville, USA |
Jan, 31 | Division Heads/Team Managers Meeting | Teleconference |
Feb, 3 | Euro-SAC Meeting | Teleconference |
Feb, 14 | ALMA SAC Meeting | Teleconference |
Feb, 16 | ALMA Liaison Group Meeting | Tokyo, Japan |
Feb, 17-19 | ALMA Technical Meeting | Tokyo, Japan |
Feb, 23 | Configuration WG | Teleconference |
Feb, 28-29 | ALMA Systems Review | Garching, Germany |
Mar, 2 | Euro-SAC Meeting | Teleconference |
Mar, 6 | Software Working Meeting | Garching, Germany |
Mar, 8 | Photonics Coordination Meeting | Schipol, Amsterdam |
Mar, 9 | ALMA Liaison Group Meeting | Amsterdam, NL |
Mar, 10-11 | ALMA SAC Meeting | Leiden, NL |
Mar, 20-21 | Receiver Conceptual Design Review | Charlottesville, USA |
Mar, 20-21 | Array Configuration Review | Tucson, USA |
Mar, 27-31 | SPIE Meeting: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2000 | Munich, Germany |
Apr, 3 | ECC Meeting | Garching, Germany |
Apr, 6 | Euro-SAC Meeting | Teleconference |
Apr, 7 | ACC Meeting | Washington DC, USA |
Apr, 10 | ALMA SAC Meeting | Teleconference |
Apr, 27-28 | Science Software Requirements (SSR) Meeting | Paris, France |
May, 1-2 | Site Development Discussions | Garching, Germany |
May 15-17 | Test Interferometer Planning | Tucson, Arizona |
Jun, 12-16 | 2nd IRAM Millimeter Interferometry Summer School | IRAM Grenoble, France |
June 19-20 | Vertex Antenna PDR | Duisburg, Germany |
Jun, 20-27 | 7th Synthesis Imaging Summer School | Socorro, USA |
June 21-22 | EIE Antenna PDR | Venice, Italy |
October 13 | ACC Meeting | Paris, France |
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Travel
AW -> AAS 12-16 Jan 2000. AW -> Tokyo 16-21 Feb 2000. AW -> Leiden 8 - 13 March 2000. ------