ASAC Socorro Face-to-Face Meeting Strawman Agenda v0.1  - 6 Sept 2002

September 6th (Friday)

venue: ALMA Test Facility

Vertex Antenna Tour

Leave AOC after lunch, return late afternoon?


September 7th(Saturday)

9:00-9:15 am Welcome and establishing a plan for writing the report (Cox,
Wilson)

9:15-10:00 am Project update. (van den Bout, Terlenghi)

10:00-10:30 am Current project status in Japan (Ishiguro)

10:30-10:45 am Discussion

10:45-11:00 am Tea/coffee break

11:00-11:30 am Project status in Chile, including site legalities
(Brown--Bronfman)

11:30-12:00 pm Charges from the ACC (Guilloteau--Cox, Wilson)

12:00-12:30 pm Prototype antennae update (TBD--Walmsley, Fukui)

12:30- 1:30 pm Lunch, tea/coffee

1:30-1:45 pm Planned testing program at ATF (Mangum, Baars, Ukita --
Walmsley, Fukui )

1:45- 2:00 pm Discussion Antennas, ATF(Walmsley, Fukui)

2:00-2:30 pm Prototype receivers, LO (Cunningham? -- van Dishoeck, Blake )

2:30- 2:45 pm Receiver production report (Cunningham -- van Dishoeck, Blake)

2:45- 3:00 pm Discussion prototype receivers(van Dishoeck, Blake)

3:00- 3:20 pm Tea/coffee break

3:20- 3:45 pm Discussions of Response to ACC Charges(Cox, Wilson)

3:45- 3:55 pm Site evaluation and stringency - (EvansCox, Bronfman))

3:55- 4:10 pm Long Baseline Y+ configuration - (Cox)-- Booth, Yun)

4:10- 4:25 pm Enhancements to the baseline ALMA instrument - (YamamotoCox,
Evans)

4:25-4:40 pm Early Science (CoxAll)

4:40- 5:30 pm Discussion and adjournment

6:30 - Reception; dinner

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September 8th(Sunday)

9:00- 10:00 am Summary of ACC Charge discussion, recommendations (Cox,
Wilson, Yamamoto)

10:00 10:30 am AIPS++ testing report (as part of a longer software section?)
(Kemball -- )

10:30-10:45 am More comprehensive software issues. Pipeline? Archiving? SOC?
(ties to RSCs)  (Glendenning )

10:45-11:00 am  Tea/coffee break

11:00-11:30 am Calibration & Polarisation (Guilloteau )

11:30-11:45 am IF subsystem, baseline correlator (Sramek -- Bachiller,
Mundy)

11:45 -12:30 pm Discussion

12:30- 1:30 pm Lunch, tea/coffee

1:30- 2:00 pm Upcoming Site Review(Radford -- )

2:00- 3:00 pm Toward a three-way ALMA: ACA, receiver bands, correlator (van
den Bout, Ishiguro -- Evans, Cox, Yamamoto)

3:00- 3:15 pm Tea/coffee break

3:15- 4:30 pm Meeting of subgroups and initial writing assignments

4:30- 5:30 pm Meeting of the whole, summary of recommendations/report

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