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Phone Meeting 2004-April-20


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Old Business

The enhanced Agenda from last month's meeting is available.  Science IPT notes from last month's telecon.

Action items from various sources:

 Last Meeting:  
              Action items    
             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)
     * AMAC Meeting
     * ALMA Board Meeting
     * ASAC  -- Strawman Agenda  for Face-to-face Meeting

Reports from Subgroups

   -1 Project Scientists (see above)
     * System Review 1-3 March 2004 during mini-ALMA week  Report.  (Not yet available).
     *  Science IPT Quarterly  report     ALMA/NACommunications  Newsletter
     * Operations Group and the Operations Plan
        
    -2 Calibration (Mangum)
      - The Requirements and Specifications August 03 Version (Wootten)
      -  Draft Bandpass Calibration Memo. from Bacmann and Guilloteau (under review)
                    - Very drafty Calibration plan.
      -  Plan for further tests of amplitude calibration devices:   Progress? (Martin-Pintado)
      - Memo: ALMA Calibration Source Counts at 250 GHz (Holdaway)

     -3.Design Reference Science Plan (Hogerheijde )
          Review of calibration questionnaire responses--50% have had replies

    -4 Imaging (Gueth, Holdaway)         

   -5. SSR (Wootten, in lieu of)
       -  Minutes of last week's meeting.
      
   -6. Configurations (Conway)

    -7 Site (Radford, Nyman)
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   -8 Operations, Science Commissioning and Verification (Laing)

       - Draft ALMA Commissioning and Science VerificationSkip to reply button for entry 1. Plan  CSV Group -- Laing, Emerson, Chandler, Lucas, Mangum, Shepherd, Wilson, Wootten

      - ALMA Week presentation

    -9  Any Other Matters Arising
                   ALMA Workshop 14-15 May 2004.  Agenda (Wootten)

Upcoming Meetings

  Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

ALMA Workshop May 14-15, University of Maryland

Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century   18-21 May 2004 Berlin, Germany

From Spitzer to Herschel and Beyond:  The Future of Far IR Space Astrophysics  7-10 June 2004 Pasadena, California

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

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