[mmaimcal]SPIE meeting

[Al Wootten]

I'll arrange the ImCal meeting tomorrow at an earlier time as I need to be
en route to the AEC meeting no later than 1pm EST.  I am told that all sites
are free at 9am MST = 11am EST so I suggest then.

Good grief now we have 'Power Telescopes'.  I suppose ALMA should be
represented in the SPIE conference see below.  Carlstrom has a session 
on mm/submm detectors, especially relevant.  Thoughts??

http://spie.org/Conferences/calls/02/as/Conferences.html

22-28 August 2002 which is the same week as the URSI general assembly and
conflicts with the beginning of school here in CV anyway...

      ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION

 Power Telescopes and Instrumentation into the New Millennium

 This symposium includes 28 Conferences in seven technology tracks.

  ********   Astronomy with Large Telescopes 
Clearly that is us...
  Program Chair: Alan Dressler, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 

 AS01    Discoveries and Research Prospects from 6-10m Class
                Telescopes II
This may cover telescopes too puny for us to consider.

 AS02    Future Research Direction and Visions for Astronomy
ALMA should submit an abstract for this session.

 AS03    Survey and Other Telescope Technologies and Discoveries
More towards widefield...even with mosaicking perhaps ALMA doesn't belong in
this session

 AS04    Large Ground-Based Telescopes
I think an ALMA contribution should be in this session--ALMA alone or
ALMA/CELTwhatever synergies

 AS05    Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II

 AS06    Adaptive Optical System Technologies II

 AS07    Future Giant Telescopes
I'm not sure about this one...SKA should get in here but ALMA perhaps not.
This conference will explore concepts, special challenges, unique scientific goals, performance
 requirements and plans for very large ground-based telescopes of the future. A variety of concepts are
 already under study, for single filled apertures from 20 to 100 m diameter and for coherently combined 20
 m apertures. All will rely on innovative optomechanical designs and on yet to be proven advances in
 adaptive optics, particularly tomographic measurement of atmospheric turbulence and multiconjugate
 adaptive wavefront correction. They will also require new types of instruments and cameras, which will
 present design and fabrication challenges comparable to the telescopes themselves. 

 Considering the unique and demanding requirements for very large apertures, all the following topics are
 appropriate for this conference: 

                specific telescope concepts 
                optical designs 
                optomechanical and mechanical design 
                actve optics and phasing techniques 
                adaptive optics for giant telescopes 
                laser guide star implementation 
                atmospheric tomography and wavefront reconstruction 
                optical fabrication 
                adaptive coherent array imaging 
                instruments and detectors 

 ********     UVOIR Ground Instruments 
Not us unless we are IR...

 ********     Astronomy Information Technologies 
For the Data Management Division?  Brian?

 ********     Space Telescopes and Instruments 
Not us
 ********     Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors 
We should have something in this session
meter and Submillimeter Detectors (AS22)
 Conference Chairs: Thomas G. Phillips, Jonas Zmuidzinas, California Institute of Technology 
Millimeter and submillimeter detectors for astronomical applications are being developed with
ever-increasing capability, to meet the growing demands of the immensely powerful set of new and
future telescopes and facilities. These include ALMA and the SMA interferometers, the LMT and APEX
single dishes, an airborne telescope, SOFIA, and a space telescope, Herschel. Detectors, spectrometers,
and cameras now can approach fundamental noise limits. In addition, detectors and cameras are being
developed for Cosmic Background instruments designed to measure the angular dependence of the very
weak anisotropy and even weaker polarization. 

 The objective of this conference is to bring together device physicists and engineers working on the
superconducting, semiconducting, and other technologies relevant to detectors for millimeter and
submillimeter astrophysics and the community of constructors of the actual receivers, spectrometers,
and cameras. 
 Papers from academic, industrial, governmental, and other research organizations are solicited in the following areas: 

           new millimeter/submillimeter instruments 
           cameras, spectrometers, polarimeters 
           direct detectors, multiplexing techniques 
           mixers, low noise amplifiers 
           novel device concepts (e.g., superconducting devices, nanodevices..) 
           device physics 
   ********   Astronomy Outside the EM Spectrum 

    ********  Astrobiology 
We could have something in this session; probably the most media exposure.

 The great interest of the public in the possibility of life elsewhere in the cosmos provides support for Astrobiology
   and a strong impetus to the development of advanced telescopes, interferometers, and remote sensing
   instrumentation, spacecraft and missions. This conference is concerned with all aspects of the rapidly
   developing multi-disciplinary fields of Astrobiology, Exobiology and Bioastronomy. Scientific papers are
   solicited concerning, but not limited to, the following general areas: 

      space missions, instruments and sensors for Astrobiology, Exobiology, and Bioastronomy 
      volcanic activity, early history and asteroidal impacts on Mars, Io, and Earth 
      detection of pre-biotic, organic and biogenic chemicals, chiral biomolecules and life 
      radio, microwave, IR, optical, and UV search for organic/prebiotic chemicals and life 
      interstellar dust, cometary dust, micrometeoroids, and Brownlee particles 
      instruments and methods to search for extra solar planets and water in the cosmos