2007 NRAO EVLA Advisory Committee Meeting

September 6-7, 2007

Socorro, New Mexico

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We invite and encourage the community to contact any of the NRAO/EVLA Advisory committee members, if there are concerns about the EVLA.  The committee membership list with accompanying contact information is found at the end of this page.

 

Committee Charge

The charge of the Advisory Committee is to evaluate and report on the:

  • Overall progress in the EVLA construction project, in terms of schedule, budget and scope, with emphases on
    • M/C software development & deliverables
    • Hardware and software for the WIDAR Correlator
  • Planning for the science commissioning of EVLA
  • Status in planning for the integrated (One Observatory) science operations of EVLA and the status of e2e operations

 

Related specific topics

  • Progress in hardware development & deliverables 
  • Progress in meeting the overall project plan
  • Progress in outfitting & re-commissioning EVLA antennas 
  • Management of budget; status of contingency funds, and contingency options
  • Project management team
  • Scientific commissioning plans
  • Early operations plans and long-range vision for operations 
  • Progress with ALMA and the rest of the NRAO towards the goal of a common interface between the users and all of NRAO's instruments.


We request an exit interview with the NRAO Director at the conclusion of the Review meeting, and a written report with comments and recommendations within one month of the Review.

2007 Advisory Committee Report

2007 Response to Committee

 

Agenda

 

Presentation Template

 

Reading Materials:

2006 Advisory Committee Report

2006 Response to Committee

2004 Committee Report 

2004 Response to Committee

2003 Committee Report

2003 Response to Committee

2002 Committee Report

2002 Response to Committee

 

EVLA Organization Chart

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

Charge to Committee    (F. Lo)
PPT
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Project Overview    (M. McKinnon)
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PDF
Progress on Recommendations in 2006 Committee Report     (M. McKinnon)
PPT
PDF
Electronics outfitting, integration, and testing     (J. Jackson)
PPT
PDF
Production status     (S. Durand)
PPT
PDF
Receiver production    (R. Hayward)  
PPT
PDF
Hardware and array performance     (R. Perley)
PPT
PDF
Correlator Status     (P. Dewdney)
PPT
PDF
Correlator Test Plan    (M. Rupen)
PPT
PDF
Software overview    (B. Butler)
PPT
PDF
Monitor and control    (B. Sahr/B. Butler)
PPT
PDF
Software Development at the NRAO   (N . Radziwill)
PPT
PDF
EVLA Science Support Systems    (B. Butler)
PPT
PDF
CASA   (J. McMullin)
PPT
PDF
Recent Progress in EVLA-Specific Algorithms   (S. Myers/S. Bhatnagar)
PPT
PDF
NRAO Support for Algorithm Development    ( E. Fomalont)
PPT
PDF
Management   (M. McKinnon)
PPT
PDF
Scientific Commissioning Plan    (C. Chandler)
PPT
PDF
Transition operations    (C. Chandler)
PPT
PDF
Future operations    (J. Ulvestad)
PPT
PDF
Science Use Cases    (R. Perley)
PPT
PDF
Science Advisory Group for EVLA   (F. Lo)
PPT
PDF

 

Presentations posted as  working documents   Internal Access ONLY

 

Additional Reference Materials:


EVLA Earned Value Assessment
EVLA Risk Management Plan
Algorithm Development Activities
NRAO Cooperative Software Consolidation Plan
Scientific Commissioning and Antenna Performance Tests

EVLA Monitor and Control System Software Design

EVLA Software Requirements and Use Cases

Monitor and Control Transition CDR Committee Report

Documentation for Scientific Support Systems Software

EVLA High Level Software Design

Virtual Correlator Interface

EVLA Correlator Network Traffic Performance Analysis

SAGE Terms of Reference

 

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NRAO-EVLA Advisory Committee Members


Roger Brissenden  (Chair)

SAO

rjb@head.cfa.harvard.edu

Stefi Baum

CIS, Rochester Institute of Technology

baum@cis.rit.edu

 

Tony Beasley

ALMA JAO

Chile

TBeasley@alma.cl

Douglas Bock

CARMA

dbock@mmarray.org

Marco de Vos

Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy

The Netherlands

devos@astron.nl

Sean Dougherty

NRC / HIA

Canada

Sean.Dougherty@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

John Dreher

SETI

Project Phoenix

dreher@seti.org

Karl Menten

MaxPlanck

Germany

kmenten@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

Glenn Miller

STScI

miller@stsci.edu

Gianni Raffi

ESO

Germany

graffi@eso.org

Luis Rodriguez

Inst de Astronomia UNAM

Mexico

l.rodriguez@astrosmo.unam.mx

 

 

Dave Woody

OVRO, Caltech

dwoody@ovro.caltech.edu

 

Liese van Zee

Indiana University

vanzee@astro.indiana.edu

 

 

                                                                             

                                                                             

 

 

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