ASAC Meeting, 5 and 6 September 2003

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Draft agenda $Revision: 1.17 $ by John Richer, $Date: 2003/09/03 13:43:14 $

The ASAC meeting is hosted by Chris Wilson of McMaster University. There are links for:

• Logistics for the meeting
• List of attendees
• ASAC Terms of Reference
• ASAC General Charge
• Specific Charge from the Board for this meeting

Friday 5th September

• 0845 Coffee and muffins available
• 0900 Welcome to meeting (Wilson)
• 0905 Introductory items (Richer)
  1. Terms of Reference
  2. ASAC Rules of Procedure
  3. ASAC EU appointments
  4. ASAC liaison assignments
  5. Plan for meeting
• 0930 Project status report (Tarenghi, Kurz)
  Reading Materials:
  1. ALMA Project Plan v1.0
  2. ALMA Bilateral Agreement
  3. JAO quarterly report, June 2003
  4. JAO quarterly report, March 2003
• 1030 Project Scientist search: ASAC letter and response from Board (Tarenghi/Richer)
  Reading Materials:
  1. Letter and response from the Board
  2. ALMA Project Scientist job description
• 1045 Coffee break
• 1100 Report from Japan (Hasegawa)
• 1145 ANASAC report (Mundy)
• 1200 ESAC report (van Dishoeck)
  Reading materials:
  1. ESAC agenda
• 1215 Science IPT Report (Wootten/van Dishoeck)
• 1300 Lunch
• 1400 Bryan Butler: Calibration Plan update
  Reading materials:
  1. Calibration overview from Project Book (draft)
• 1500 Charles Cunningham: Front End Stability
  Reading Materials:
  1. Proposed Front End specifications
  2. Note from Al Wootten on FE specs
  3. OBSOLETE front end specifications
  4. Draft memo by Mark Holdaway
  5. Email from Mark Holdaway
  6. Memo by Jack Welch
  7. Memo by Larry D'Addario
  8. Note by Al Wootten
  9. Minutes of Stability telecon, Jul 03
  10. Note by Richard Hills
  11. Al's stability documents
• 1530 Coffee break
• 1545 Discussion on FE Stability and Calibration requirements
• 1615 Science Software Developments (Glendenning, Shepherd)
  Related materials:
  1. AIPS++ Phase III test draft report
  2. SSR requirements
  3. Draft software test plan
  4. AIPS++ audit
• 1715 Open discussion
• 1745 End of session
• 1930 Dinner (downtown, near hotel)

Saturday 6th September

• 0845 Coffee and muffins available
• 0900 Design Reference Science Plan (van Dishoeck/Wootten)
  Reading materials:
  1. Draft DRSP - access protected: see Ewine's message of 31 August for details.
• 1015 EU and NA ALMA centres: functions, and current plans (Testi/van Dishoeck/Silva/Emerson/others?)
  Reading material:
  1. ASAC September 2001 report
  2. Ewine's note for ESAC on support at other facilities
• 1045 Coffee break
• 1200 PI instruments: (Carilli/Tarenghi)
• 1245 Free discussion time
• 1300 Lunch
• 1400 Closed Session for ASAC discussion on Charges and report; election of next chair; date of next meeting
• 1515 Open session: Presentation of recommendations
• 1530 Coffee break
• 1600 Meeting closes