Third GALFA Workshop Agenda

Boston University, Wednesday 18 June 2003
College of Arts and Sciences, Room 522, 725 Commonwealth Ave.

0800	Meet in CAS 500
0800-0815	Bob Brown: NAIC's View of ALFA Consortia
0815-0830	OVERVIEW: GALFA Draft White Paper: (Goldsmith, Chair) HI Spectral Line; Radio Recombination Lines; Continuum Do We Have the Appropriate Content? Science Requirements; Acquistion; Processing; Archiving; Analysis
0830-0900	CONTINUUM: (Chris Salter)
0900-0930	RADIO RECOMBINATION LINES: (Mayra Lebron)
0930-1045	HI SPECTRAL LINE: (Snezana Stanimirovic)
1045-1100	Coffee Break
1100-1200	SPECTROMETER: Specifications and Realization 15 min -- Goldsmith: Hagen software FFT approach 30 min -- Heiles: UCB FPGA polyphase filter approach 15 min -- GALFA Consortium Recommendation
1200-1300	LUNCH
1300-1320	DATA REDUCTION PIPELINE (Jurgen Kerp) AIPS++ or IDL?
1320-1340	Observing Techniques and Requisite Tests Thereof (??)
1340-1400	Commensal Observing: (??) Which parts of GALFA are appropriate? Which ALFA teams would be involved?
1400-???	GALFA White Paper: Timeline Tasks Taskforce Final Text Integration Team
1800--	Dinner: Elephant Walk, Cambodian/French suitable for vegetarians excellent wine list walking distance N.B. there are plenty of other nice places in Boston, some even nearby. We will be happy to make recommendations. If you are interested in the EW, please email me so that Ican try to arrange reservations. Since we have zero budget this dinner is pay as you eat. Typical EW entrees are ($12 Cambodian and $20+ French)