March 7: Start of Science Observing in the Extended array configuration
Mar 5-30: SB revisions to unfinished Batch1,2,4 projects
April 2-20: Generation of "Batch5" projects (more on Batch 5 later)
Coordination with other groups and activities
Project news (Al)
26 antennas at AOS; increasing to 32 by end of March.
Power issues still being addressed--existing infrastructure needed upgrade and correction.
ES C0 block now targeted for 28 Mar.
USG task reports & new business
HIA (Gerald)
Jim reported on behalf of Gerald that he will need a few days to assemble the Primer after getting the science examples on March 16, putting the Primer slightly behind the above schedule.
John has emphasized toning down the science examples so that we don't encourage overreach.
Action Item from Feb 9: Primer examples. Gerald, Rachel, Al, Adam, Jim. Drafts due March 16.
See minutes Feb 9 for details of science examples
Taiwan and EA Liaison (Aaron)
Documentation (Jim, Jonathan)
Remy has provided his ISM course material and work has begun on turning it into material for the course
Jeff has volunteered his extensive library of materials and help with mm course task
the documentation team will meet next Tuesday to finalize plans & schedule, and report at next USG meeting
ACTION ITEM: Specific plan with schedules and writing assignments at USG meeting March 15
Science Web (Aaron)
Helpdesk (Tony)
PI Support & Visitors (Scott)
Batch 3 almost completed; some on hold for cone searches
P2G will do the revision of Batches 1&2 to R8.1; CSs will not need to be involved unless an issue requiring PI input arises.
Development of outreach materials (Carol)
Rachel commented that she received a suggestion to use Utube videos for outreach, from a participant at the Toronto meeting
Workshops, Schools, Meetings (Tony, Adam)
The Jets meeting was a success, though exhausting. Kudos to the LOC!
It's not clear when the next meeting will be; Taiwan is considering April 2013 to avoid conflicts with the Victoria meeting and Protostars and Planets this summer and fall
Tutorials (Carol)
We are scheduled to observe a Herschel/PACS webinar next Tuesday ACTION ITEM: all to drop by sometime during the day to take a look and assess quality of the experience
Main items
New simulations: review ideas, plan specifics, assign effort
Remy presented the plan that simulations be developed to assist users for each decision point on the OT decision tree.
Remy posted some examples: an over-resolved point source; M51 (an H-alpha map) to illustrate visibilities and, in particular, gaps in coverage and largest angular scale
Important to consider both velocity resolution and noise effects
ACTION ITEM: Remy will draw up a strawplan for review at next weeks meeting. Input from JH needed on C1 capabilities and rules, and OT decision tree.
AOB
Al noted that the long delayed meeting on high redshift molecules is being planned for September, in CV