[asac] Monthly telecon Weds, 4 Oct 2006 at 1430UT

[Ryohei Kawabe(old)]

Dear ASAC members, 

 Baltasar and myself are not available tonight.

 The following is ALMA-J update.

1.	NAOJ internal review of ALMA Construction and Operation (ALMA-J
Project review part-II)
We had one-day internal review meeting for reviewing ALMA-J construction
project and ALMA operations plan (version B) by inviting two external
reviewers from universities. The meeting was chaired by NAOJ deputy director
who are in charge of NAOJ budgeting and the discussions were focused on
ALMA-J budget and staffing plans during and after construction. The delta
review will be held on Oct. 11th for discussing more about the budget plan.
Some of the discussions will be fed back to ALMA Board and ops working
group.

2.	Internal Pre-CDR Meeting of ACA Correlator
We had two-days meeting for the review of ACA correlator at NAOJ with
Fujitsu group on Oct. 3-4. This was projected as one of preparation meetings
for ACA Correlator CDR which will be held on Dec. The current design of ACA
correlator, proto-type testing plan, thermal analysis report, acceptance
plan, operation and maintenance plan etc were reviewed. The designing and
planning by ACA correlator team and Fujitsu seemed to be generally going
well. We identified several technical and managerial issues which should be
clarified and resolved before CDR.
 
3.	Hiring of ALMA-J & Taiwan CSV scientists and EA-ARC scientist
We will hire the following three staff in NAOJ and ASIAA, and are searching
for candidates. Applications from NA or EU are welcome as well as form Asia.
Please encourage persons who will be interested in the positions to contact
me for NAOJ positions and Nagayoshi Ohashi for ASIAA position (I will send
you job advertisements for these soon) . 
- ALMA-J CSV scientist (NAOJ position)
- Taiwan CSV scientist (ASIAA position)
- EA-ARC scientist (NAOJ position) 

4.	CSV Plan
R. Laing and B. Vila Vilaro co-author CSV plan based on the draft plan by R.
Laing. Baltasar is mainly developing ACA part. CSV f2f meeting is planed on
Oct. 11-12 (Garching) after WVR conference at Wettzel for further
discussions on CSV plan. 

5.	External Review of Combined Array Docs.  
We started the external review of several combined array documents once, but
stopped the review due to the bug report of GILDAS by J. Pety. Recently, we
re-performed the simulation using bug-fixed GILDAS and could confirmed that
our previous simulation results on the combined array seem to be not
affected by the bug. We will revise the docs according to the new results
and discussion with ASAC and re-start the review process soon. 

6.  ACA Calibration
B. Vila Vilaro has written several ACA Calibration Example documents that
are currently under Internal Review. They cover those aspects of the ACA
Calibration that are not covered by the standard ALMA Calibration Examples
created by the Calibration Group Members. Once reviewed, the documents will
be handed to the Calibration Group for comments.

Regards,

Ryohei

 

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Al Wootten
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 7:10 AM
To: asac at nrao.edu
Subject: [asac] Monthly telecon Weds, 4 Oct 2006 at 1430UT

Folks

Please join us for the monthly telecon, focussed on final report
preparations.

 Contact Information

    * 2006-October-4 14:30 UT
    * Duration: 1 hr
    * USA Toll Free Number: 877-874-1919
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    * Leader: Al Wootten 

Agenda:
https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/ASAC4Oct06Agenda

Clear skies,
Al
Al Wootten
Interim Project Scientist
ALMA, 40 El Golf, Piso 18
Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
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