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The enhanced Agenda from last month's meeting is available.  Science IPT notes from last month's telecon. Last Meeting Action items    
- Action items from various sources:
Last month's Science telecon:

ACTION: Wootten get with DTE on satellite. Wilson wrote an email introducing the topic to him. Done
ACTION: CSV plan and canvass. Laing provided the plan to Japanese colleagues. Done
ACTION: John will work on the antenna location plan        In process, draft availasble (see below)
ACTION: Science IPT telecon date change to third Tuesday. 20 Apr Stay constant in local time, change in UT. Done

SE telecon.  ACTION: [Wootten]- what is the required IDR for a single image.  Bring this up in the science telecon.
                   ACTION: Science IPT, [Laing]- produce short memo on origin of spec on differential gain stability. [N.B. ALMA Tech Requirement No. 264 Differential gain stability between channels of a polarization pair 5e-4 at 300 sec TBC allocation to FE and BE are each 0.707 of this value 320 23] Holdaway has written protomemo.

ALMA Week:  [Wootten]Provide detailed values on solar filter to FEND by 30 April  Late
                        [Laing] Develop a requirement for stitching together the BEND 2 GHz sections for overlap.      In process
                        [Conway, Laing] Choose antenna stations where first antennas will be located for first fringes.  4-30-04   [See CSV document]   
                        [with SE]  Decide when antennas are handed over to Commissioning (after 1st light or 1st fringes?) 6-01-04
                        [Wootten & Co] Write System Review Report  Done

             MILESTONES: all leaders of level 3 milestones with upcoming deadlines to report on status.  The Milestones, with project number, are available updated for March.

New Business -- Agenda

 ALMA Calendar 

LAMA Memo Series  has  inhabitants!

- Project news/updates (Wootten and Wilson)
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     * JAO Positions (Wootten)
     * ALMA Science Workshop Meeting  14-15 May 2004.  Presentations (Wootten)

Reports from Subgroups
   -1 Project Scientists (see above)
     
  -2. Configurations (Conway)   -3 Calibration (Mangum)
      - The Requirements and Specifications August 03 Version (Wootten)
      -  Draft Bandpass Calibration Memo. from Bacmann and Guilloteau (2 of 3 reviews, both favorable,  received)
                    - Very drafty Calibration plan.
      - Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:   Progress? (Martin-Pintado)
      - Please see the report from Berkeley on the absolute calibration via gain horn experiment.

     -4.Design Reference Science Plan (Hogerheijde )

    -5 Imaging (Gueth, Holdaway)  
        - IDR 

   -6. SSR (Lucas?)
       -  Minutes of last week's meeting.  Data rate memo.
        
    -7 Site (Radford, Nyman)
         -   ICDs

   -8 Operations, Science Commissioning and Verification (Laing)

       -  ALMA Commissioning and Science VerificationSkip to reply button for entry 1. Group -- Laing, Emerson, Chandler, Lucas, Mangum, Shepherd, Wilson, Wootten
    -9  Any Other Matters Arising
                  

Upcoming Meetings

  Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy 59th Meeting - - June 21-25, 2004

Cores, Disks, Jets & Outflows in Low & High Mass Star Forming Environments: Observations, Theory and Simulations  July 12-16, 2004  Banff, Alberta, Canada

ESO ALMA COMMUNITY DAY 2004 September 24 Garching Germany

The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Beginnings   2004 October 4-8  Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos  2004 October 11-13 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Dusty and Molecular Universe  27-29 October 2004, Paris

Protostars and Planets V  24 - 28 October 2005  Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii