Draft Agenda for ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee Leiden March 10-11, 2000
Assume 30 min per event, except as noted
Presentations must leave 5 min for questions
Start 1030 March 10
0. Welcome and establish plan for writing report (10 min) (Ewine van Dishoeck, Neal Evans)
1. Interim Report on Definition of Phase 2, Schedule, Estimated Cost (Dick Kurz)
2. Report from ALMA Liaison Group (ALG) on meetings in Grenoble (Dec99) and Tokyo (Feb00). (Stephane Guilloteau or Dick Kurz and Ryohei Kawabe)
3. Discussion*
4. Lunch
5. Receivers (band boundaries, sensitivity goals, priorities, update D&D work, plans for mass production, ...) (40 min) (Wolfgang Wild)
6. Q-band Receivers (Why ALMA should have them) (John Carlstrom)
7. Discussion*
8. Break
9. Report on System Reviews (Feb00) (Darrel Emerson or Jaap Baars)
10. Report on Configurations, Long Baselines (Min Yun or Karl Menten)
Dinner
Start 0830 March 11
1. Report on Antennas (Dick Kurz)
2. Report on Polarization (Dick Crutcher)
Break
3. Report on Total Power, Nutating Secondaries (Jack Welch)
4. Report on Water Vapor Radiometry (John Richer)
5. Discussion*
6. Lunch
7. Writing assignments and subgroup meetings*
8. Meeting of the whole, reports, election of new Vice-Chairperson*
9. Adjourn at 4 PM
Agenda items with * following are for the ASAC members plus observers and invited technical experts.