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<b>ASAC Tokyo Face-to-Face Meeting Strawman Agenda v1.5 - 15 Mar
2002</b></h1>
<p><br><b>March 18<sup>th</sup> (Mon)</b>
<p>venue: NAOJ Mitaka headquarters
<p>The Before-ASAC Meeting: ALMA Liaison Group Meeting proposed.
<br>
<p><b>March 19<sup>th</sup></b>
<p>9:00-9:15 am Welcome and establishing a plan for writing the report
(<b>Blake, Cox, Fukui</b>)
<p>9:15-10:00 am Project update, including a brief overview of the planning
for the presentation of the bilateral project to the NSB, ESO. (<b>Rafal,
Kurz</b>)
<p>10:00-10:30 am Current project status in Japan (<b>Ishiguro</b>)
<p>10:30-10:45 am Discussion
<p>10:45-11:00 am Tea/coffee break
<p>11:00-11:30 am Project status in Chile, including site legalities (<b>Brown--</b><i>Bronfman</i>)
<p>11:30-12:00 am Begin individual progress report areas: Prototype antennae
update ( <b>Rafal, Baars, Ukita</b>--<i>Walmsley, Fukui</i>)
<p>12:00-12:30 am Prototype receivers, LO (Not production report) (<b>Wild,
Cunningham</b> -- <i>van Dishoeck, Blake</i> )
<p>12:30- 1:30 pm Lunch, tea/coffee
<p>1:30- 1:45 pm Discussion prototype receivers(<i>van Dishoeck, Blake</i>
)
<p>1:45- 2:00 pm IF subsystem, baseline correlator (<b>Gray </b>-- <i>Bachiller,
Mundy</i>)
<p>2:00- 2:15 pm Calibration, WVR system (<b>Guilloteau, Wootten</b> --
<i>Richer</i>
)
<p>2:15- 2:35 pm Revised testing program in Socorro (<b>Mangum, Baars,
Ukita</b> -- <i> Walmsley, Fukui</i> )
<p>2:35- 2:55 pm Options for Proposal Review Committees (<b>Evans</b>)
<p>2:55- 3:15 pm Tea/coffee break
<p>3:15- 3:45 pm Discussions of Options for Proposal Review Committees(<b><i>Cox,
Evans, Fukui</i></b>)
<p>3:45- 3:55 pm Overview presentation on RSC Core Functionalities
(<b>Evans</b>)
<p>3:55- 4:10 pm European presentation on RSCs (<b>Cox)</b>
<p>4:10- 4:25 pm Japanese presentation on RSCs (<b>Fukui</b>)
<p>4:25-4:40 pm North American Survey results (<b>Evans</b>)
<p>4:40- 5:30 pm Discussion and adjournment
<p>5:30- 6:30 pm Interactions with press (Parallel with Lab visit)
<p>5:30 - 6:30 pm Lab visit (Development of ASTE receivers, ALMA cartridge test cryostat, etc.) (Parallel with press interactions)
<p>6:30 - Reception; dinner
<p>venue: NAOJ Mitaka headquarters
<p>Japanese newspapers are interested in the ALMA project and the Japanese
status in it. A brief (<60 min) meeting with some ASAC members and the
<br>press may be set right after the first day's ASAC and before dinner.
We can state that ALMA is starting now, with Japan having a delay. Good
words
<br>from European and north American members on the expectation for the
Japanese participation would be very helpful.
<br>After the meeting, the press can join the ASAC dinner buffet. We may
enjoy friendly atmosphere and exchanging information.
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<p><b>March 20<sup>th</sup></b>
<p>9:00- 10:00 am Summary of RSC discussion, recommendations (<b>Cox, Evans,
Fukui</b>)
<p>9:30- 9:45 am AIPS++ testing report (as part of a longer software section?)
(<b>Guilloteau </b>-- <i>Tatematsu</i>)
<p>9:45 - 10:15 am NRAO Data Management Plans, including the End-To-End
project (<b>Cornwell </b>-- <i>Tatematsu</i>)
<p>10:15-10:45 am More general software issues. Pipeline? Archiving? SOC?
(ties to RSCs) (<i>Tatematsu</i>)
<p>10:45-11:00 am Tea/coffee break
<p>11:00-11:30 am Baseline receiver bands production report, Europe and
N. America (<b>Wild, Cunningham</b> -- <i>van Dishoeck, Blake</i>)
<p>11:30-11:45 am Receiver production report, Japan (<b>Sekimoto</b> --
<i>Nakai</i>)
<p>11:45 -12:30 pm Discussion
<p>12:30- 1:30 pm Lunch, tea/coffee
<p>1:30- 2:00 pm Results of Configuration CDR, imaging performance
(<b>Wootten, Guilloteau</b> -- <i>Yun, Booth</i>)
<p>2:00- 3:00 pm Toward a three-way ALMA: ACA, receiver bands, correlator
(<b>Brown, Kurz, Ishiguro</b> -- <i>Evans, Cox, Fukui</i>)
<p>3:00- 3:15 pm Tea/coffee break
<p>3:15- 4:30 pm Meeting of subgroups and initial writing assignments
<p>4:30- 5:30 pm Meeting of the whole, summary of recommendations/report
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<p><b>March 21<sup>st</sup> (Thurs)</b>
<p>venue: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
<br>
<p>March 21 is a Japanese holiday, celebrating the equinox, and we will
have a "ALMA Science Day" event at the National Museum of Emerging Science
and Innovation located at the waterfront of Tokyo.
<p><Associated General Lecture or Science day>
<p>date: afternoon of March 21 (Thu) - Japanese holiday to celebrate equinox
<p>venue: A hall with 300 seats in the National Museum of Emerging Science
and Innovation has been tentatively reserved. This new museum opened
in July 2001 at the Tokyo waterfront will co-host the Lecture session.
<br>http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/
<p>The main goal of the session is to convey the exciting forefront of
astronomical research and the prospect of more exciting science with ALMA
to the general public with interest in science, with ages ranging from
~15 to 60 or up averaging at high school students. Families visiting the
museum on that day can drop in if they get interested. Press are also invited
of course.
<p>The session may be composed of two parts.
<p>1. Lectures on Astronomy and ALMA (100 min total)
<br>A brief description of the ALMA project will be given. After that,
scientific talks are given by European, North American, and Japanese speakers.
The European and North American speakers give lecture in English followed
by Japanese translation page by page (of viewgraphs/PowerPoint).
<br>We need to nominate the speakers.
<p>2. Discussion (60-90 min)
<p>After a short break, we will have a discussion session. It can be in
a panel discussion style with the former speakers and a few more (e.g.,
the director of the museum, Dr. Mouri, who is an astronaut himself, if
we succeed to persuade him to come) on stage, exchanging discussions on
ALMA in terms of science, technology, and society. In the course of the
discussion, we pick up the questions from the audience written in question
sheets and collected during the break. (The discussion will be made mainly
in Japanese. We will assign graduate students to give a minimum of interpretation
to follow the discussion. Picked questions from the audience are translated.
)
<br>
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<h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>A partial list of things to
read before the meeting (Under construction)</font></font></h1><br>
<h1>The Project Book, Version 5.5: </h1><br> The <a href="http://www.mma.nrao.edu/projectbk/construction/">Project Book, Version 5.5,</a> is available on the Web. <img SRC="new_small.gif" height=40 width=42>
<br>
It is not planned to print this version. Rather, it should be
considered an intermediate version towards a more complete Version 6
which we hope to issue during the summer.
You are cordially invited to read the PB and in particular to
scrutinise those sections for which you are the ASAC liaison.
<br>
Please report any error you discover to Jaap Baars, so we can make corrections.
Version 6 will in particular contain updated versions of the Backend
Chapter, based on the PDR during the ALMA Week, and of the
Configuration and Calibration chapters.
<br>
<h1>Operations: </h1><br> The Operations
Group has promised to issue its report, which you may obtain in
<a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/asacops2002.pdf">pdf</a> or in <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/asacops2002.ps">postscript</a> format.<img SRC="new_small.gif" height=40 width=42></font></font>
You may wish to review the
report presented in Chile in <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/asacops.pdf">pdf</a> or in <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/asacops.ps">postscript</a> formats.
<h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>Calibration:</font></font></h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1> Calibration will be the
subject of a meeting during ALMA Week.</font></font>
<h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>Receivers:</font></font></h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>Front End Reading:</font></font>
<p><font face=" "><font size=+1>From a FE group telecon on
5 July 2001, courtesy of W. Wild:</font></font>
<p><font face=" "><font size=+1>- Short <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/JPFEStatusJl01.txt">status
report</a> of FE work in Japan</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>- Short <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/IRAMALMAJL01.pdf">status
report</a> of FE work at IRAM</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>- Short <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/SRON-Band9StatusJuly2001.pdf">staus
report</a> of FE work in SRON</font></font>
<p><font face=" "><font size=+1>Additional material:</font></font><img SRC="new_small.gif" height=40 width=42>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1> - <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/Summary RAL Cryo Optics meeting 26 Sep 01.pdf">Summary</a>
RAL Meeting on Cryo and optics (W.Wild)</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1> - <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/TLG_Mixer_report.pdf">Development
of Mixer Block Production Technology</a> (Wild, Hesper, Schaeffer, Barychev)
Band 9 DSB waveguide mixers</font></font>
<h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>Software</font></font></h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>Please see documents at the
<a href="http://iram.fr/%7Elucas/almassr/">SSR
home page</a>.</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Hint: Look under Working
documents for draft Pipeline and offline data requirement drafts.
<br>Please read the <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/aipspp2002.txt">aips++ report </a>from Lucas and Kemball.<img SRC="new_small.gif" height=40 width=42><br>
</font></font>
<h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>Correlator</font></font></h1>
<h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>Water Vapor Radiometry</font></font></h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>The current version of the WVRs
will be shown on Chajnantor (someone?).</font></font>
<p><font face=" "><font size=+1>Documents from previous meetings:
The Cambridge and Onsala groups have proposed the next generation of
<a href="http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~jsr/wvrprop.ps">183
GHz Line Monitors (PS)</a> and <a href="http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~jsr/wvrprop.doc">183
GHz Line Monitors (MSWord)</a>.</font></font>
<br>
<h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>Site and Configurations</font></font></h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>Butler has assembled a useful
<a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/configurationdocs.html">reading
list.</a></font></font><img SRC="new_small.gif" height=40 width=42>
<p><font face=" "><font size=+1>Please visit the <a href="http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/configurationcdrrecs.txt">Configuration
Design Review Recommendations .</a></font></font>
<h1>
<font face=" "><font size=+1>ALMA Week</font></font></h1>
You may consult the current <a href="http://iraux2.iram.fr/~lucas/almassr/meetings/ALMA_Week.html"> timetable </a> of ALMA Week and travel information. The deadline for hotel reservation is rather close
(March 21st).
<p><font face=" "><font size=+1>Possible Participants</font></font>
<br>
<p><font face=" "><font size=+1>Bachiller, Rafael</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Blake, Geoffrey</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Booth, Roy</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Bronfman, Leo</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Brown, Robert</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Chikada, Yoshihiro</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Cornwell, Tim</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Cox, Pierre</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Evans, Neal</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Fukui, Yasuo</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Guilloteau, Stephane</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Hasegawa, Tetsu</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Ishiguro, Masato</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Kawabe, Ryohei</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Kurtz, Richard</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Mangum, Jeffrey</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Mardones, Diego</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Matsuo, Hiroshi</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Nakai, Naomasa</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Rafal, Marc</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Richer John</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Sakamoto, Seiichi</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Schilke, Peter</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Sekimoto, Yutaro</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Shaver, Peter</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Tatematsu, Ken</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>van Dishoeck, Ewine</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Walmsley, Malcolm</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Wootten, Al</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Yamamoto, Satoshi</font></font>
<br><font face=" "><font size=+1>Yun, Min Su</font></font>
<p><i><font face=" "><font size=+1>Revised 6 March 2002 HAW</font></font></i>
<br>HOTEL, TRAVEL PLANNING
<br>
<p>For the participants of the meeting, we have made a block reservation
of hotel rooms near the JR Mitaka station.
<p>ROYNET HOTEL MUSASHINO
<br>Phone +81-422-36-0022, FAX +81-422-36-0020
<br>Room rate JPY 9,000 per night (breakfast not included) + Tax
<br>From Narita, you can take JR Narita Express (NEX) to Tokyo (60 min),
and change to JR Chuo Line to Mitaka (30 min).
<br>The hotel is 5 min walk north from JR Mitaka station. To get NAO, you
can take a bus or taxi from the station.
<p>ALMA-J office is happy to make the logistical support. For this purpose,
we would like to ask you about your plan for the Tokyo ASAC meeting.
<br>Please fill in the form below and send it to Ms. Sachiyo Ueshiba by
February 4.
<p>Tetsuo Hasegawa, ALMA-J Office
<p>-------Please cut here and send by Monday, February 4 ----------
<br>
<p>To: Ms. Sachiyo Ueshiba, ALMA-J Office
<br>e-mail: sachiyo@nro.nao.ac.jp
<br>FAX: +81-422-34-3764
<br>Name (Family, First):
<br>e-mail:
<br>Institute:
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<br>March 21: Yes/No/TBD
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