!NAASC Third Wednesday Team Meetings; C. Lonsdale Lead
Present: Kartik, Mark L, Carol, Al, Harvey, Scott, DongChan, Rachel, Tony, Kelly, David, Amy, Mark A, Jeff, John S., Robin, Adam, Jim, John H, Lyndele
Agenda, May 18, 2011
- News & Information
- New Science Portal deployed in test area today- please "kick the tires". We have a countdown clock!!!
- Sabattical visitor starts in August: Jonathon Keohone. Joint appointment with EPO for astro 101 course developmen
- PEP process underway: science self evaluations should have been sent to OSAA already; functional PEPs due June 1
- Upcoming timeline
- This week: release of SP and Technical Handbook
- May 20: input for CDR9 due (release Jan 2012)
- May 23: tutorial AAS, Boston
- May 24: tutorial AAS, Boston
- May 25: tutorial Amherst
- May 27: tutorial New York
- June 1: archive open for submissions
- June 30: proposal deadline
- July 18-22 (week of): TA workshop & pan-JAO/ARC meet-and-greet
- August 8: Science and tech assessments due
- August: panel meetings; results ~29th to PIs
- September 1-29: Phase II products; [OT Phase II / CASA bootcamp ?]
- September 30: start ES observations
- Highlights from Groups & Teams
- Management (Carol, John)
- User Committee was last week in Greenbank
- NRC (Gerald)
- Gerald working on Primer; please submit comments by end of week
- next CDE is in London June 3; lunchtime session at Canadian AS meeting.
- Brenda writing eNews article
- CANFAR Data Cloud
- Science (Al)
- Next Science workshop. Tony is LOC chair; Sienny Shang is SOC chair. Postpone till new year?
- Project news and CSV (Al, Stuartt)
- Science Communications (Mark Adams)
- send out an announcement "last chance to sign up for ALMA Training" at AAS Boston
- proposal for presentations in Austin have been submitted
- EPO (John Stoke)
- Antennae galaxy with ALMA Data created image
- Tanya will be working with Tiger Team to see what might be created.
- Camera crews visiting site more, working to get crews in the Vertex building for limited filming.
- Needs ALMA Sun data
- User Support Group (Carol)
- Tutorial presentations further updated: useful revised overview talk. Set posted for community. Presentation (and Memo) templates in prep. Kudos to Kartik for hard work on tutorials (14+ workshops personally attended).
- Evaluations (comments and scores) have been collated and are available here.
- Mousepad sent for production; 500 for AAS
- Last CDEs at AAS, Amherst, New York; NOI statistics; now planning post-deadline tutorial program
- Need plan for joint / coordinated tutorials with EVLA, VLBA, GBT
- Beginning to plan mm on-line course; discussing ideas for a summer school more suited to novices
- Anticipating making casaguide-format scripts for SV data reduction. Postdocs?
- Plone site still being proofed
- Helpdesk: tickets soared as Adam took triage! 2-3 per day. Backlog on KB articles
- Data Services Group & Computing (Mark L / David H)
- Agreed upon url that will be used
- making sure that we can get image cubes into the archive
- data storage: ~150 terabytes
- Spatalogue quick picker in development
- Helpdesk Tiger Team being set up; to improve One ALMA/One NRAO interface
- Hardware ordered for cluster nodes
- Mark on panel on data publishing at AAS (Wed morning)
- Status of sw development workshop planning - will need to work on invite list. NSF needs to sign off on call and composition of review panel.
- 20MB shared link with NOAO, up to 100MB between NRAO and Chile ?
- JAO Support Group (John)
- Tiger Team (Crystal)
- SV datasets available (Al)