[mmaimcal] 14 August, final arrangements

[Peter Napier]

For those of you planning to attend the Large Millimeter Array Workshop
at URSI GA, here are the final arrangements for the 14 August Workshop.
Note that the rooms for the parallel sessions DO have overhead
projectors.
Peter

I attach the ALMA Workshop agenda and the final draft programmes of the
workshop sub meetings. Rooms are as follows: 
SF 1105 on Saturday morning; 
Parallel sessions after lunch: 
Antennas SF 1105, 
Calibration and imaging SF 1101, 
Receivers MP 134, 
Syatem MP 137 

These may be changed depending on numbers attending and room size. 

All rooms have overhead projectors 



The codes refer to buildings as follows: 
The buildings are: MP=McLennan Physics, 60 St. George Street; MS=Medical 
Sciences, 1 King's College Circle; SF=Sandford Fleming, 10 King's
College Road; 
SI=Simcoe Hall, 27 King's College Circle. 

See campus map on the web http://oracle.osm.utoronto.ca/map/ 

Comm J sressions will be held in: MP 103 from Monday next. 


The Large Millimetre Arrays - Engineering Progress and Scientific 
Prospects 
URSI Comm J Workshop, 
URSI General Assembly, Toronto 
0830-1830, Saturday 14 August, 1999 

This one-day workshop is intended to provide an opportunity for people 
working on the ALMA project, and for others interested in millimetre and 
submillimeter arrays, to meet and discuss problems of common interest. 
First, a few talks of general interest will be given. Then the workshop 
will split into four parallel working groups for detailed discussions on 
topics in the four areas of Antennas, Receivers, Systems and 
Science(calibration and imaging). 

General Interest Talks (20 min): 

Status of European-ALMA Project R. Kurz (ESO) 
Status of US-ALMA Project R. Brown (NRAO) 
Status of LMSA Project M. Ishiguro (Nobeyama) 
Recent results from joint site testing on the 
Chajnantor 5000m site S.Radford (NRAO) 
Photonic local oscillator generation and distribution J. Payne (NRAO) 
Broad band communication network in chile E. Vera (Nobeyama) 
Worldwide development of SIS mixer junctions and their 
production T.Noguchi (Nobeyama) 
Advanced Correlator Concepts A. van Ardenne (NFRA) 

After lunch, there will be the following parallel sessions and 
att end of the day there will be 4x10 min summaries of major working 
group conclusions. 
> 
Agendas for the Large Millimeter Array Workshop Parallel Sessions 
URSI, Toronto, 14 August 1999 

Some of these may not be absolutely final agendas but they do give a 
good indication of topics to be discussed. 

Agenda for ALMA Antenna Workshop, 14 August 
1999, Toronto. Convenors Torben Andersen, Peter Napier, Nobuharu Ukita 

>(1) Discussion of current understanding of antenna specifications 
>(2) "Design and Progress Report of a 10-m Submillimeter Antenna" - 
>Ukita-san 
>(3) Discussion of coordinated antenna interface specifications: 
> (a) Foundation interface 
> (b) Transporter interface 
> (c) Receiver and holography rx. interface 
> (d) Receiver cabin equipment rack interface 
> (e) Subreflector nutator interface 
> (f) Electrical power / UPS interface 
> (g) Computer monitor/control interface 
> (h) Antenna optics 
>(4) Discussion of coordinated procurement and test schedule 
>(5) Opportunities for shared work: 
> (a) Transporter design 
> (b) Nutator design 
> (c) Optical pointing telescope 
> (d) Temp. probes, tilt meter & quadrant detector 
> (e) Determine shaped profile of the underside of feed legs 
> (f) Panel solar scattering techniques and measurement 
> (g) Measurement, testing and selection of RF-transperent membrane 

> (h) On-axis cable wraps 
> (i) Holography system in Chile 
> 
> 
>Calibration and Imaging Issues (coordinators R. Kawabe(chair), 
> A.Wootten, S. Guilloteau) 
> 
> * Brief Introduction 
> "Purpose of this working Group" 
> 
> * Calibration issues 
> "Water Vapour Radiometry for Phase Correction: 
> 22 GHz vs 183 GHz" (B. Butler, NRAO) 
> "Calibrator Search with IRAM Interferometer" (S. Guilloteau, IRAM) 
> "Fast Switching and its requirement for Antenna Slew Rate" (Y. 
>Asaki, ISAS) 
> "Amplitude Calibration" (J. Mangum, NRAO) 
> a few talks/comments and discussion 
> 
> * Coordination of future site testing 
> "Future Site Testing by NRAO" (S. Radford, NRAO) 
> "Measurements with 183 GHz Tippers and future site testing" 
> (R. Wade, J. Richer, Otarola, perhaps Nyman) 
> "FTS Results and future site testing" (Seiichi Sakamoto, NRO) 
> a few talks/comments and discussion 
> 
> * Array Configuration issues 
> "ALMA Array Cofigurations" (M. S. Yun, NRAO) 
> "Array Configuration Study for ALMA: three arm spirals" (tentative) 
> (J. Conway, OSO) 
> "Strategy for Array Configuration Study" (tentative) (K.-I., 
>Morita,NRO) 
> a few talks/comments and discussion 
> 
> Summary 
> "Working Group Conclusions and Future Action Items" 
> 
> 
>Agenda for the ALMA Receiver Workshop, Toronto, 1999-Aug-14. 
>Convenors Kotaro Kohno, John Payne, Wolfgang Wild, 
> - The Japanese receiver situation- Kotaro Kohno- 20 mins. 
> - The US receiver situation- J. Payne, J. Webber- 30 mins. 
> - The European receiver situation- W. Wild- 40 mins. 
> - The Evaluation Receiver for the first antenna.- G. Moorey- 10 mins. 
> - Cryogenic issues and plans in the US to date.- L. Daddario- 20 mins. 
> - Swedish contributions- V. Belitsky- 20 mins. 
> - Photonic plans in Japan- M. Ishiguro- 10 mins. 
> 
> 
>Agenda for ALMA Workshop on System Issues, Toronto, 1999-Aug-14 
>Convenors D. Emerson and S. Okamura 
> 
> Discussion of top-level system specifications 
> Correlator discussions 
> Fiber optics issues 
> Coordination of system interfaces 
> Total power measurements 
> 
> 
> 
>-- 
>Peter Napier, Masato Ishiguro, Roy Booth 
-- 
Peter Napier
NRAO
PO Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801
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