Telecon Minutes of 23 January 2001

TEAM PRESENT: Churchwell, Kobulnicky, Christer Watson, Meade, Babler, 
	Mathis
TEAM BY TELECON: Seager, Wolff, Clemens, Wolfire, Whitney, Bania, 
	Tony Marston, Benjamin

Ed reviewed notes from Meeting at SSC

We will be expeected to produce some software as part of the Legacy
effort but we don't want to commit to doing too much.  We will work
with other groups so as to not duplicate effort.


EPO budget

We need to think about how to spend EPO money, about $8k/year, perhaps
we can use it to fund the speakers who will travel around to speak
about Legacy Science.  Also the Space Place at UW can make great use of
a little money like this.

Mark would like a piece of the EPO money to use with Lee Mundy at MD.

Important Deadlines:
  March 14: EPO proposal call
  April 6: revised observing plans due
     We will have to work to avoid overlap with GTO areas
     Need a description of fields to be observed
  May 2:  revised proposals due; we will have to identify the impact of
	  budget reductions 
  May 9: Extended Abstracts due; will be published for the communty
  May 16: multi-year EPO proposals due
  Sep 4: observing strategy review at SSC
  Oct 3: Delivery of AORs  
2002
  Mar:  Data plan review 
  1/2 year after launch: validation review of observing strategy &
      progress on post-pipeline progress
  End of stage 2: delivery of final data products & documents
      also delivery of software tools
  
We have 4 working groups in Phase 1:
  1) Hardware Acquisition; we need recommendations right away
  2) Survey planning; 
  3) Data Analysis
  4) Web tools

   In phase 2

  1)  Post-pipeline processing; (quality asseessment, source extraction)
  2)  Higher level data analysis; (cross IDs, crowded field deconvolution)  
  3)  Catalog (Mike) & Web Tools (Mark)

Postdoc Hire: Ed spoke with Gus ?? who might be a good postdoc hire,
	a student of Charlie Lada who has experience with IR and large databases.
        A few other names: 
          ??     A Korean student...
          James Lloyd: student at Berkely with James Graham,  Tom Bania knows
		him. 
          Greg Sloan: Another name from Dan, works with Steve Price on MSX
          Ed will talk to Al Harper & R. Hildebrand to see if they can recommend
          
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To do list:
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  Hardware definition: should acquire computer by march; need computer 
	recommendation ASAP
	initial computer configuration by March
	 Database configuration by July?
  Planning: need software to visualize fields and produce AORs by March
   New SPOT will be released in about 2 weeks; it will include 
	ability to visualize AORs
        spot will not have the new AOT for IRAC at this point
        Eventually, hexagonal mapping for IRAC is allowed 
	  but will not be available in the next SPOT version; 
          Tony Marston says we CAN be moving during readouts but 15 sec readouts
          still limit our efficiency.   He's unclear whether 18 sec or
	  maybe 33 sec will be the minimum downlink time for a given
	  field.  With 0.4 and 2 sec integration times, but no 12 sec frame, we
	  will save saturation.  Chip will work to estimate saturation
	  incidence per field.
          
  Software: data analysis tools to be in place by April, 2002
  Web Tools: we may not need to develop web portal tool for access to data
      since SSC will develop something like this for the archive, we hope
  
Tony will look into someone we can work with at SSC involving archive interface.

Ed will talk to Hildebrand and Harper about postdoc possibilities

Mike will report on computer purchase next time.

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Upcomming events
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All-Team Meeting: Friday-Sat, 2-3 Feb in Madison.  Watch your email for details   
       
Agenda items for Feb meeting
   1) Observing Strategy; how many dithers; how will we deal with Cosmic rays?
	    Saturation?
   2) What common software should can develop with other teams?
      We need to trace the software flow through every step from BCD to final
	products
   3)  Team name/logo & summary of project for release to the community

NEXT TELECON: Tuesday, Feb 13th, 11:00 a.m. Central time.

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