Leiden March 10-11, 2000
Assume 30 min per event, except as noted
Presentations must leave 5 min for questions
Sessions in the Wapenzaal, second floor of Kasteel
Start 1030 March 10, coffee available
10:30-10:40 Welcome and establish plan for writing report (10 min) (Ewine van Dishoeck, Neal Evans)
10:40-11:10 Interim Report on Definition of Phase 2, Schedule, Estimated Cost (Dick Kurz)
11:10-11:40 Report from ALMA Liaison Group (ALG) on meetings in Grenoble (Dec99) and Tokyo (Feb00). (Stephane Guilloteau or Dick Kurz and Ryohei Kawabe)
11:40-12:30 Discussion*
12:30-1:20 Lunch, coffee
1:20-2:00 Receivers (band boundaries, sensitivity goals, priorities, update D&D work, plans for mass production, ...) (40 min) (Wolfgang Wild)
Receiver issues
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Wolfgang Wild and John Payne, 6 March 2000
1. Confirmation of frequency bands
2. 30 GHz band
3. Choice and priority for initial bands (U.S.: 3 mm, 1 mm, and 0.5 mm, EU SAC: 3 mm, 0.8 mm, and 0.5 mm)
4. Requirements for 183 GHz water vapour monitor: alignment with optical axis stability switching arrangement sensitivity
5. Total power stability of all receivers. What is the scientific requirement over what time scale ? For what observing mode ?
6. Calibration requirements: accuracy of amplitude calibration
7. Polarization requirements
8. Current understanding of switching requirements: band to band 1.5 sec within band 10 sec
Single dish antenna frequency switching: 0.03% freq throw 10 msec
2:00-2:30 Report on Polarization (Dick Crutcher)
2:30-3:00 Report on System Reviews (Feb00) (Darrel Emerson or Jaap Baars)
3:00-3:45 Discussion*
3:45-4:15 Break, coffee
4:15-4:35 Q-band Receivers (Why ALMA should have them) (John Carlstrom via Telecon)
4:30-5:00 Discussion
6:30 Bus to The Hague
7:00-9:30: Dinner at Indonesian Restaurant Garoeda, hosted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
Return to Oud Poelgeest before 10 pm
Start 0830 March 11, coffee available
8:30-9:00 Report on Configurations, Long Baselines (Min Yun or Karl Menten)
9:00-9:30 Report on Antennas (Dick Kurz)
9:30-10:00 Break, coffee
10:00-10:30 Report on Total Power, Nutating Secondaries (Jack Welch)
10:30-11:15 Report on Water Vapor Radiometry (John Richer, Chris Wilson)(45 min)
11:15-12:00 Discussion*
12:00-1:00 Lunch, coffee, walks in the woods
1:00-2:00 Writing assignments and subgroup meetings*
2:00-4:00 Meeting of the whole, reports, election of new Vice-Chairperson*
4:00 Adjourn at 4 PM
Agenda items with * following imply that we will split into two groups: one includes the ASAC members, the observers from Chile and Japan, and only those members of the project staff that the committee wants to confer with; the other group will include the remainder of the project staff.
Participants
Baars, Jaap
Benz, Arnold
Blake, Geoffrey A.
Booth, Roy -- Mayflower Thursday
Bronfman, Leonardo
Brown, Robert
Carlstrom, John
Cox, Pierre -- Mayflower Thursday
Crutcher, Richard
Dishoeck van, Ewine
Emerson, Darrel
Evans, Neal
Fukui, Yasuo
Guilloteau, Stephane -- Mayflower Thursday
Gurwell, Mark
Kawabe, Ryohei
Kurz, Richard -- Holiday Inn
Bachiller, Rafael
Menten, Karl M.
Nakai, Naomasa
Richer, John -- Mayflower Thursday
Scoville, Nick
Shaver, Peter
Walmsley, Malcolm
Welch, Jack
Wild, Wolfgang -- Mayflower Thursday
Wilson, Christine
Wootten, Al
Yamamoto, Satoshi -- Witte Huis Hotel
Yun, Min S.
A partial list of things to read before the meeting
Re Receivers:
Re Configurations and Imaging:
Re Total Power, Nutating Secondaries
Re Water-Vapor Radiometry
ALG Issues
Directions from the Kasteel Oud Poelgeest, Oegstgeest conference centre to the Leiden Observatory, J.H. Oort Building, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden.
If you prefer to walk rather than take a taxi it will take you between 15-20 minutes. The lab is near the bottom left corner of the map sent to you earlier. From the conference centre walk down to the main road and turn left (Laan van Oud Poelgeest). Straight on at the roundabout. (The name of the street changes to Warmonderweg. Continue straight on and at the T-junction straight across into a narrow one way street Nachtegaallaan. Continue on and walk along the path at the end of this street, passing on your right first a wooden building with children's play equipment outside and then further down horse riding stables. You are now at the roundabout on the Wassenaarseweg. Cross the road and turn right walking along the Wassenaarseweg. You will see a tall chimney stack coming up on your left. Take the second left - Niels Bohrweg and the entrance to the J.H. Oort Building is across a bridge through the car park on your left hand side. There you will find the Reception desk. The Observatory occupies floors 4 and 5 as well as the 5th floor of the Huygens Laboratory which is joined to the Oort building.
FOR DIRECTIONS AND MAPS FROM THE TRAIN STATION TO LEIDEN OBSERVATORY, SEE ITS WWW PAGE
SUGGESTIONS FOR RESTAURANTS IN LEIDEN (French/Continental):
(ask taxi driver to take you there or walk from Mayflower hotel)
- Jill's restaurant: popular with live music on some evenings Morsstraat 6
- Restaurant La Cloche: best French restaurant in town, but also most expensive Kloksteeg 5
- Restaurant Het Prentenkabinet: nice setting in old mansion next to Kloksteeg 25 Pieterskerk and plaque of Pilgrims fathers
- Fabers Restaurant Kloksteeg 13
- Restaurant Koetshuis-de Burcht: nice setting at foot of old fort in Burgsteeg 13 center of town
There are many other types of cuisine (Italian/Pizza, Greek, Chinese, Spanish/Argentina, etc.) in restaurants scattered throughout Leiden.