3 Jan 2008 23:31
DMGeneral - Notes from LSST PM telecon 20070103
Jeffrey P Kantor <jkantor <at> lsst.org>
2008-01-03 22:31:26 GMT
2008-01-03 22:31:26 GMT
Don Sweeney
John Schaefer
Suzanne Jacoby
Chuck Claver
Jeff Kantor
Suzy Dodd
Ted Lavine
David Burke
Tony Tyson
Tm Axelrod
Press Release
SJ - Charles Simonyi will be interviewed by NY Times. Seems to be slow going right now, but only sent to partners and astro community. Simonyi may re-issue with business wires.
TT - Dennis Overby from NY Times contacted, and we are on Wired already. Expect most activity later today and tomorrow.
All Hands Meeting
DS - Need strawman agenda, identify speakers. Approximately 3 hours per subsystem in plenaries.
CC – The theme is mid-course check on PDR progress. Identify major PDR milestones for PDR now.
DS – Could do a “dry run” with outside reviewers, but probably too early, need AHM to be work in prep for this.
AAS
DS – Next week, but will still have Thursday meeting next week. DS wants Ray Plante (AHM) and Andy Connolly (simulations) to participate in these Thursday telecons regularly now.
Budget
DS – Process to finalize is not fully worked out, but we need to move ahead. Starting with firm commitments, and then have a meeting. Universities and LCO put money in, all of them put in the first half in 2007, but only 2 gave remaining half in 2008. We don’t want to pay back 2007, but we will offer to repay 2008 only (for parity), from funds we already have in the bank.
TT – Technically, they could ask for it back, but we are still in fund-raising mode and they need to understand that. The agreement with the new donors would not permit this. We need to leverage this new money news for new fund-raising, more people should participate in Thursday meetings.
JS – Too soon to decide, but we don’t intend to use the new funds to pay back those loans.
DM
JK – In slowdown for holidays/vacations. DC2 in “performance improvement” stage. Will complete in days or weeks, not months. All nightly pipelines in place (minimal instrument signature removal since we are using LSST pre-cursors). Participating in AAS next week. WBS being reworked with responsibility matrix out shortly. PMCS improvements have been started, User-Defined fields added, resources added (but more to do).
T&S
VK – Happy about press release. We have larger versions of images on web, can send to reporters, sent one to SJ already. Rock will start to be removed at CP in January, 2009.
Camera
KG – Wants to ensure press release gets to IN2P3. DOE was hard hit on budget, LSST budget has been affected, makes IN2P3 work more critical. Sensor RFP will be out shortly, just need final comments for incorporation. Have wafers from study phase and they will be diced and evaluated in time for PDR. Will have prototype sensor with Keck funds, but not in time for PDR. Test dewar is already built at BNL. Did significant change to Camera section of lsst.org, including filter curves. No longer have total system throughput shown on lsst.org.
Sys Eng
CC – Working on completing traceability in SysML model, and draft of Sys Eng planning document. Leaving Sunday for AAS, full week there. Going to DES CD2 at end of January at Fermilab. Sent list of suggested changes to lsst.org, including system overview page.
Calibration
DB – Analyzing CT data, use of Y4 looks better (vs Y3), due to efficiency of spectrograph in that band. Marginally meeting spec with Y4, reproducible at 5 milliMag level summed over 3 nights. Still checking on systematics, report out by end of next week. Have approved and scheduled 6 nights on CT with 1.5m and 0.9m (late April and mid-July). F2F calibration simulations meeting 1/26 – 1/27 at SLAC. Starting engineering design of dome screen for instrument calibration. PS failed first light, prototype never left Harvard, Stubbs will measure emission angles/distributions of screen, compute illumination patterns.
IPAC
SD - Met with Robert Lupton, he gave talk about Application Framework. Zeljko Ivezic gave talk a couple weeks before. Several people interested in participating, science collaborations and algorithm designs. Submitted comments to DM R&D plan and owe Applications organization.
John Schaefer
Suzanne Jacoby
Chuck Claver
Jeff Kantor
Suzy Dodd
Ted Lavine
David Burke
Tony Tyson
Tm Axelrod
Press Release
SJ - Charles Simonyi will be interviewed by NY Times. Seems to be slow going right now, but only sent to partners and astro community. Simonyi may re-issue with business wires.
TT - Dennis Overby from NY Times contacted, and we are on Wired already. Expect most activity later today and tomorrow.
All Hands Meeting
DS - Need strawman agenda, identify speakers. Approximately 3 hours per subsystem in plenaries.
CC – The theme is mid-course check on PDR progress. Identify major PDR milestones for PDR now.
DS – Could do a “dry run” with outside reviewers, but probably too early, need AHM to be work in prep for this.
AAS
DS – Next week, but will still have Thursday meeting next week. DS wants Ray Plante (AHM) and Andy Connolly (simulations) to participate in these Thursday telecons regularly now.
Budget
DS – Process to finalize is not fully worked out, but we need to move ahead. Starting with firm commitments, and then have a meeting. Universities and LCO put money in, all of them put in the first half in 2007, but only 2 gave remaining half in 2008. We don’t want to pay back 2007, but we will offer to repay 2008 only (for parity), from funds we already have in the bank.
TT – Technically, they could ask for it back, but we are still in fund-raising mode and they need to understand that. The agreement with the new donors would not permit this. We need to leverage this new money news for new fund-raising, more people should participate in Thursday meetings.
JS – Too soon to decide, but we don’t intend to use the new funds to pay back those loans.
DM
JK – In slowdown for holidays/vacations. DC2 in “performance improvement” stage. Will complete in days or weeks, not months. All nightly pipelines in place (minimal instrument signature removal since we are using LSST pre-cursors). Participating in AAS next week. WBS being reworked with responsibility matrix out shortly. PMCS improvements have been started, User-Defined fields added, resources added (but more to do).
T&S
VK – Happy about press release. We have larger versions of images on web, can send to reporters, sent one to SJ already. Rock will start to be removed at CP in January, 2009.
Camera
KG – Wants to ensure press release gets to IN2P3. DOE was hard hit on budget, LSST budget has been affected, makes IN2P3 work more critical. Sensor RFP will be out shortly, just need final comments for incorporation. Have wafers from study phase and they will be diced and evaluated in time for PDR. Will have prototype sensor with Keck funds, but not in time for PDR. Test dewar is already built at BNL. Did significant change to Camera section of lsst.org, including filter curves. No longer have total system throughput shown on lsst.org.
Sys Eng
CC – Working on completing traceability in SysML model, and draft of Sys Eng planning document. Leaving Sunday for AAS, full week there. Going to DES CD2 at end of January at Fermilab. Sent list of suggested changes to lsst.org, including system overview page.
Calibration
DB – Analyzing CT data, use of Y4 looks better (vs Y3), due to efficiency of spectrograph in that band. Marginally meeting spec with Y4, reproducible at 5 milliMag level summed over 3 nights. Still checking on systematics, report out by end of next week. Have approved and scheduled 6 nights on CT with 1.5m and 0.9m (late April and mid-July). F2F calibration simulations meeting 1/26 – 1/27 at SLAC. Starting engineering design of dome screen for instrument calibration. PS failed first light, prototype never left Harvard, Stubbs will measure emission angles/distributions of screen, compute illumination patterns.
IPAC
SD - Met with Robert Lupton, he gave talk about Application Framework. Zeljko Ivezic gave talk a couple weeks before. Several people interested in participating, science collaborations and algorithm designs. Submitted comments to DM R&D plan and owe Applications organization.
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