[alma-config]Configuration CDR

[Al Wootten]

Apologies to those who may have received this twice--the first is your
Christmas present and the second your New Year's present...Merries of both,
Al

To Configuration Group and Interested Parties

Details of the Configuration CDR
    Date: January 24-25, 2002
    Location: Array Operations Center, NRAO, Socorro, N. M.

Access:
     Fly into Albuquerque.   It is about 70 miles, one hour, to Socorro.  See
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/vla/html/aocdir.shtml
To reach the AOC, you must either rent a car, or take a shuttle,
which is ~$50 each direction, to get from the airport
to Socorro.

Lodging:
     The CDR occurs just after the EVLA LO/IF PDR to be held 22-23 Jan, and
before the NSF review of AUI, to be held the following week.  We will
lodge visitors in the Visiting Scientist Quarters and local hotels.
Please let me know your plans for arrival and departure dates as soon as
possible.  Please contact 'nmreserv at aoc.nrao.edu' or go to
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/cgi-bin/visitor.cgi
to make your lodging reservations.

Note that if you plan a Saturday night stayover, the ski areas
at Santa Fe (quite a charming town) are about an hour north of the airport
in Albuquerque.  If enough are interested in visiting the VLA, about an
hour west of Socorro, that may be arranged also.  You will not see much of
the ALMA prototype antenna at this early date.

2) AttendantInvitee List (PLEASE COMPLETE)

Bryan Butler <bbutler at nrao.edu>,
        Leonia Kogan <lkogan at nrao.edu>,
        Steve Myers <smyers at nrao.edu>,
        Crystal Brogan <cbrogan at nrao.edu>,
        Douglas Bock <dbock at astro.berkeley.edu>,
        Craig Walker <cwalker at nrao.edu>,
        Tim Cornwell <tcornwell at nrao.edu>,
        Rick Perley <rperley at nrao.edu>,
        Michael Rupen <mrupen at nrao.edu>,
        Frazer Owen <fowen at nrao.edu>,
        John Conway <jconway at oso.chalmers.se>,
        Frederic Gueth <gueth at iram.fr>,
        "Stephane Guilloteau" <guillote at iram.fr>,
        "Steven Heddle" <steven at kw15.co.uk>,
        Mark Holdaway <mholdawa at nrao.edu>,
        Angel Otarola <aotarola at eso.org>,
        Jeff Kingsley, Antenna Division Head <jkingsle at nrao.edu>,
        Jerome Pety Jerome Pety <pety at iraux2.iram.fr>,
        Jeff Mangum,  <jmangum at nrao.edu>,
        Koh-Ichiro Morita  "Morita, Koh-Ichiro" <morita at nro.nao.ac.jp>,
        Simon Radford,  Site Division Head <sradford at nrao.edu>,
        Dick Sramek, BE DH <dsramek at nrao.edu>,
        Gie Han Tan, System engineering Gie Han Tan <ghtan at eso.org>,
        Francois Viallefond <fviallef at maat.obspm.fr>,
        Frederic Boone <frederic_boone at yahoo.fr>,
        Adrian Webster Adrian Webster <asw at roe.ac.uk>,
        Al Wootten <awootten at nrao.edu>,
        David Woody  "David Woody" <dwoody at ovro.caltech.edu>,
        "Seiichi Sakamoto" <seiichi at nro.nao.ac.jp>,
        Daniel Hofstadt <dhofstad at sc.eso.org>
        Dick Kurz <rkurz at eso.org>, 
        "Jacob Baars" <jbaars at eso.org>,
        "Robert Brown" <rbrown at NRAO.EDU>, 
        "Marc Rafal" <mrafal at NRAO.EDU>,
        "Peter Gray" <pgray at nrao.edu>,
        Jorg Eschwey <jeschwey at eso.org>

Invited members / reviewers 
        As for the PDR, to be confirmed.
        IPT Leads:  Sramek, Tan, Kingsley, Radford, Guilloteau, Wootten others

3) Documents
      To be ready 2 weeks in advance for distribution, or 9 January
        - Compact configuration (Kogan)
        - Spiral concept (Conway)
        - uv-metric concept (Boone)
        - Hybrid concept (Webster)
        - Imaging tests (Guilloteau, Heddle, others?)  

4) Goal of the meeting: select a baseline design to continue with detailed
implementation work ...
CDR Review Guidelines Version 2 - 98November09 P. J. Napier 
 The purpose of the CDR of an MMA Subsystem is principally to review 3 
    questions: 
(1) Are the detailed requirements for the subsystem complete and adequate? 
(2) Will the design selected for implementation on the test array meet the 
     requirements? 
(3) Are interfaces to other subsystems defined adequately and completely? 
(4) Has adequate attention been given to the produceability and maintainability
     of the subsystem? 
Meeting organization and attendance to be the same as a PDR. MMA199901-0010

Actually, there are four, and we aren't MMA anymore but the rules have not
changed...I think that we should leave this meeting with one design and
one philosophy to guide any changes.

Agenda of PDR:
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/almaconfigpdragenda.html
Report of PDR:
http://www.alma.nrao.edu/administration/designreviews/configurationpdr.html
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Could you please (1) confirm your participation as soon as possible, and 
(2) give me the following information before January 4 :
Date of arrival :
Date of Departure :
Need for a single or double-room ?

Also, don't forget to give this information to contact
 'nmreserv at aoc.nrao.edu' or go to
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/cgi-bin/visitor.cgi
to make your lodging reservations.




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