[asac] ASAC Meeting Agenda

[Al Wootten]

Apparently somehow an old version of the agenda has made its way into some
folks' browsers.  I append a text version of what the current version on
my disk is
(at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/asacberkeleyagenda.html)

     Agenda for ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee

Berkeley 9-10 September 2000

Assume 30 min per event, except as noted

Presentations must leave 5 min for questions

Start 0900 September 9, coffee available

09:00-09:10 Welcome and establish plan for writing report (10 min) (Karl
Menten, Jack Welch)

09:10-09:50 Interim Report on Definition of Phase 2, Decision Process,
Schedule, Estimated Cost (40 min)(Brown and/or Kurz)

09:50-10:20 Report from ALMA Liaison Group (ALG) on meetings in Leiden
(Mar00) and Charlottesville (Jun00), including Compact Array. (Bob Brown or
Dick Kurz and Ryohei Kawabe)
*The ACA (Morita)
*ACA Antenna Size (Welch)

10:20-10:35 Coffee

10:35-11:30 Discussion* (Evans and Cox, Leaders)

11:30-12:30 Correlator Plans--US, European, Japanese (Wootten, Baudry?,
Okamura)

12:30-1:20 Lunch, coffee

1:20-2:00 Discussion* (Bachiller and Scoville, Leaders)

2:00-2:30 Calibration schemes (Reports by Guilloteau, Welch, Mangum)

2:30-3:00 Passband Calibration (Emerson)

3:00-3:45 Discussion*(Richer and Wilson, Leaders)

3:45-4:15 Report on Configurations (Min Yun)

4:15-4:30 Break, coffee

4:30-4:45 Report on Spectrum Protection, Site (Wootten)

4:45-5:00 Polarization Specifications (Draft by D'Addario?, Myers?)

5:00-5:30 Discussion*(Booth, Crutcher, Menten and Yun, Leaders)

7:00-9:30: Dinner

Start 0900 September 10, coffee available

9:00-9:30 Receivers (In particular, specifications, revisit priorities and
other questions including optics (beam squint specifications, mirrors,
etc.); Report on JRDG Meeting 7-8 September) (Telephone callin W.Wild)

9:30-10:00 Report on Test Interferometer and on Antennas (Emerson)

10:00-10:30 Break, coffee

10:30-11:00 Report on Water Vapor Radiometry (Woody, Richer, Wilson?)

11:00-12:00 Discussion*(Blake, van Dishoeck, Walmsley and Welch, Leaders)

12:00-1:00 Lunch, coffee, walk through botanical gardens

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

Possible Participants

Baars, Jaap
Bachiller, Rafael
Benz, Arnold
Blake, Geoffrey
Booth, Roy
Bronfman, Leonardo
Brown, Robert
Carlstrom, John
Cox, Pierre
Crutcher, Richard
Dishoeck van, Ewine
Emerson, Darrel
Evans, Neal
Fukui, Yasuo
Guilloteau, Stephane
Gurwell, Mark
Kawabe, Ryohei
Kurz, Richard
Mangum, Jeff
Menten, Karl
Nakai, Naomasa
Richer, John
Scoville, Nick
Shaver, Peter
Walmsley, Malcolm
Welch, Jack
Wild, Wolfgang
Wilson, Christine
Woody, David
Wootten, Al
Yamamoto, Satoshi
Yun, Min S.

A partial list of things to read before the meeting TBD

SUGGESTIONS FOR RESTAURANTS IN BERKELEY:

Clear skies,
Al
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