USG Meeting July 26, 2012

CV-230192.33.117.16
434 972 7268 To start meeting: CV - dial 972-7268 on phone at center of table. [to stop phone from ringing, go to the telephone on the side table near the door, and dial 9-972-7268, then place handset next to phone (remember to hang it up when the meeting is over)].Turn on both video monitors (buttons on lower left of each screen). If the USG meeting must be temporarily relocated, see bottom of page for alternate IP/phone coordinates.

Future Meetings

August 3, 2012

AGENDA / MINUTES

• Attendance: Carol, Kartik, Leslie, Dongchan, Tony, Remy, Amy, Kim, Adam, Gerald, David, John, Brenda, Al

Main items

• User Committee report and planning for FY2013 outreach efforts
  • next meeting on Wed, Aug 1

• Cycle1 feedback

USG task reports & new business

• JSG, DSG, TT liaison
  • Effect of PWV issue in submitted proposals quite small
  • Packages are shipping tomorrow to assessors

• HIA (Gerald)
  • Gerald has been doing P2G - has run into lots of problems. Only JAO can put a message on the P2G exploder. Recommend creating a P2G group so that group can easily communicate.
  • Kartik - there IS a P2G exploder; he will send it to Gerald
• Taiwan and EA Liaison (Aaron)
• Science Web (Aaron)
• Documentation (Jim)
• Helpdesk (Tony)
  • New Staff Guide posted on login page
    • Big change in how change requests are handled. Please review.
• PI Support & Visitors (Scott)
• Tutorials & development of outreach materials (Carol, Adam)
  • Adam would like to organize a meeting (Aug 13) to test CASA viewer work (Jim asked about AIPS header issue).
• Workshops, Schools, Meetings (Tony, Adam)
  • Aug - SciOps f2f in Charlottesville?? (Aug 7-9)
  • Sept: 13-15 High Z workshop - vanden Bout Fest
  • Sept 20 & 21 - ANASAC F2F Meeting, Charlottesville
  • Oct - Spectroscopy meeting in Atlanta
  • Dec - 12-15, ALMA Meeting in Chile - "First Year of ALMA Science"
  • Jan: AAS
  • April 8-12, 2013 - 2013 Rocks! : Transformational Science with ALMA: Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems – From Dust to Rocks to Planets.

AOB

Current USG Topics and Tasks

• Helpdesk
• Revisit Skype ‘office hours’
• Data reduction
• Millimeter course / instructional material
• Use cases for analysis tools
• CASA 3.5 updates to guides / talks
• Cycle 1 contact scientist assignments
• Cycle 1 phase two generation
• Community outreach
  • Chile meeting (12/12/12 - 12/15/12) http://www1.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cadcbin/meetings/getMeetings.py?number=3658
  • AAS - Long Beach (01/06/13 - 01/10/13) https://aas.org/meetings/aas221
• Data reduction visits
• Website redesign
• Cycle1 lessons and Cycle2 preparation
  • Polling our colleagues about the proposal experience
  • The community survey will occur in August
  • SciOps IPT could make recommendations, from their August f2f, on the most desirable expansions to science capabilities in C2, based on the users science needs and wishes
  • We could generate tips and tricks to help users figure out how to optimize their science in the face of OT limitations.
  • We could generate more OT templates that could help users get the optimum setups. This activity could start early and help drive the Primer examples.
  • ACTION ITEM: All. Write comments on C1 and recommendations for C2: Cycle 1 Comments

CV-Auditorium	192.33.117.12##6518	434-817-6279
CV-209	192.33.117.17 (video)	434-296.7082 (audio only)
CV-245	192.33.117.23 (video)	434-817-6285
CV-331	192.33.117.19 (video)	434-293-7109

-- LyndeleVonSchill - 2012-07-25