AOP is being updated to VersE. JH racking up the miles working on this:
Jan 11-12: CIPT planning meeting in Socorro (related to testing/documentation/tutorials)
Jan 15 maintenance summary meeting in Charlottesville
Jan 19-22 AOPvE WG f2f meeting in Santiago (all text updated; draft maintenance concept presented; decision on what should be within "Executable" baseline and what should be "Scenarios" should be finalized by end of meeting; these will then be budgeted for Feb meeting)
Feb 3-4 meeting in Charlottesville for summary/status presentation to Directors Council
Feb 10-12 AOPvE WG f2f meeting in Santiago (draft maintenance plan and "executable" budget reviewed; Scenarios costed)
Feb 19-20 HoA f2f meeting in Santiago (full-up budget presented to Heads of Admin; JH will not attend; TM/GC/MP)
Feb 22-26 JH taking vacation (slacker)
Mar ??: Draft AOPvE due to Board
Draft of NAASC plan is out to NRAO "Observatory Science Council" and to ANASAC. Draft due to AUI by Mar 5
Tony is in Manchester for "High resolution imaging" workshop
User Test 6 (UT6) is on schedule to start in mid Jan2010. UT6 is the primary focus for pipeline testing right now. Pretesting (done by the developer) is expected to finish up this month (this is a critical step in test preparation). The test scope includes calibration, imaging improvements, small mosaics, and will involve outside users. There may be 6-8 testers (very preliminary number). There has also been significant changes to the user documentation, which will certainly result in user feedback to improve it.
NAASC testers: Official - Rachel, Crystal. Unofficial - John, Brenda, Kartik. JH: ask Ed Fomalont
OT "Auto-Deployed" version. Can be used now to get experience with OT, but its a very unstable version and not always available
User test being planned to start mid January. Should take ~2 weeks. We have to get many people to take part, and coordinate feedback through Harvey. Planned testers: HL, RF, CB, ML, RI
Beta release April 2010.
Technical Assessment WG (Harvey, Todd, Jeff, Crystal):
Harvey sent out two email on this; recipients should provide feedback to him
Casapy simulator (Remy)
Remy gave walkthrough demonstration on Nov 19 to an international viewership, followed by discussion of future priorities. REMY SHOULD POST HIS PPT PRESENTATION. Incorporated some material into http://casaguides.nrao.edu
Jan 11/12 CV: implementation workshop - more detailed tutorials on working with simdata and Simulator, work on web interface (EU), discussion of atmospheric corruption with Bojan, etc.
NAASC items submitted to JAO for December Monthly report
Hiring activities
Conducted job interviews for Commissioning Scientist and NAASC scientific staff positions
JAO support
Participated in single dish CASA workshop in Santiago
CSV Liaison Support by K. Sheth continued, including presentation on combining single dish & interferometry data at SD CASA workshop and implementing the R7.0 computing acceptance matrix
Attended f2f meeting of ALMA Operations Plan at OSF Dec 7-11; provided updates to Secs. 3, 4, 11 & 12 of AOP
Schedule of next 6mo of CSV support sent to Deputy Project Manager
Worked on holographic antenna surface measurements and antenna pointing
ALMA Science IPT telecon was held
Provided science support to ASAC
Discussed ancillary calibration device stations at the AOS
Software Development & testing
Finished work on CASA 2-D Gaussian fitting User Interface
Issued CASA public release R3.0
Started planning for next set of CASA development targets, including high-performance computing
Organized ALMA simulator developer workshop to be held Jan 2010
Participated in CASA Viewer development focus group
Completed CASAguides entry for reduction of CARMA data
Consulted on draft TA guidelines and report forms with NAASC staff and the ObsPrep team
Collated results and re-designed the report forms in preparation for the next Ph1M telecon
Continued OTF testing of the OT, reporting results to the participants of the monthly OT telecon
Held a meeting to discuss the VO compliance of molecular line catalogs, and provided VO SLAP service for use with appropriately structured databases
Conferences and workshops
Produced four posters for the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (Jan 2010, Washington DC, USA)
Developed material for use at January AAS Meeting, including quick reference guide for ALMA, video, ALMA fact-sheet, updated Canadian-generated "ALMA Primer"
Other
Completed redesign, content, and deployment of NAASC science user website
Refined NAASC 2012-2015 proposal to NSF and sent to ANASAC for comment
Developed material to aid in simulations of SZ observations