Committee Charge

The EVLA Advisory Committee is requested to evaluate and report on the following areas:

   • Overall progress in the EVLA construction project in terms of schedule, budget and scope, including
     o progress in hardware development & deliverables;
     o progress in outfitting & commissioning of EVLA antennas;
     o the management of budget, contingency funds, and contingency options;
     o progress in meeting the overall project plan.

  • The science commissioning plan of EVLA, including the Early Science plan, and comment on
     o the key goals and activities of Science Commissioning;
     o the science-driven priority of the goals and key activities;
     o the schedule of the activities.

  • Planning for integrated One Observatory Science Operations that includes the EVLA
     o Scope of the integrated User Support;
     o Areas of special emphasis from the users’ point of view.

We request that the Committee hold an exit interview with the NRAO Director at the conclusion of the meeting, and that it submits to the NRAO Director a written report of its findings and recommendations by April 17, 2009.

2009 Advisory Committee Report

2009 Response to Committee

Agenda

Presentations:

Charge to the Committee (Lo)	.pdf	.ppt
Project Overview and Status (McKinnon)	.pdf	.ppt
Systems Integration and Testing (Jackson)	.pdf	.ppt
High Speed Digitizers (Durand, Revnell)	.pdf	.ppt
EVLA Receiver Issues (Hayward, Coutts, Srikanth, Stennes)	.pdf	.ppt
EVLA System Commissioning Results (Perley)	.pdf	.ppt
Widar Correlator (Dougherty)	.pdf	.ppt
Prototype Correlator Testing (Rupen)	.pdf	.ppt
EVLA Transition to Science Operations (Dickman)	.pdf	.ppt
Science Commissioning (McKinnon/Chandler)	.pdf	.ppt
EVLA Early Science:Shared Risk Observing (Chandler)	.pdf	.ppt
Software Overview (Butler)	.pdf	.ppt
Monitor and Control (Butler)	.pdf	.ppt
Software for Science Support Systems (Harland, Butler)	.pdf	.ppt
CASA (Glendenning)	.pdf	.ppt
Transition Observing and Science (Chandler)	.pdf	.ppt
Science Advisory Group for EVLA (Lo, Perley)	.pdf	.ppt
Correlator Growth Path (Rupen)	.pdf	.ppt
Science Use Cases (Perley)	.pdf	.ppt
Observatory Science Operations (Chandler)	.pdf	.ppt
Recent progress in EVLA-specific algorithms (Bhatnagar/Rau)	.pdf	.ppt
EVLA Postprocessing Algorithms (Dickman/Owen)	.pdf	.ppt
Lunch Talk by Urvashi Rau - Multi Frequency Synthesis Imaging with Wideband EVLA Data	.pdf

Reading Materials:
2008 Sage Committee Report
Supplementary Report on the EVLA/WIDAR Correlator CDR
WIDAR CDR Signed Report
Schedule for Transition to EVLA Operations
Summary of Actions on 2007 Committee Recommendations


Compressed file containing all .pdf files



                                            Committee Members

Roger Brissenden   SAO rjb@head.cfa.harvard.edu	Stefi Baum CIS, Rochester Institute of Technology baum@cis.rit.edu
Tony Beasley NEON Boulder, CO tbeasley@neoninc.org	Douglas Bock CARMA dbock@mmarray.org
Marco de Vos (Chair) Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy The Netherlands devos@astron.nl	Jasper Wall University of British Columbia Canada jvw@physics.ubc.ca
David DeBoer ATNF Australia David.Deboer@csiro.au	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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