NGAO Team Meeting #1

Directions: http://www.physics.uci.edu/~barth/ksm2006/NGAOdirections.html

Status of Action Items from Meeting #1 as of 9/20/06: Action Items

Goals:

• Finalize the System Design phase management plan.
• Map out the science case requirements development plan.
• Map out the performance budget development plan.
• The above 3 goals are part of the process of identifying the path to a system design.

Agenda:

• 8:20 am Welcome
• 8:30 am Project Management (Wizinowich to lead)
• Present, discuss & finalize system design phase plan. The plan should include the deliverables, MS project plan (PDF), major milestones, goals for major meetings, org chart, human interactions, etc.
• 11 am Science team management (Max to lead)

We will map out the goals & activities for the science team during the SD phase, with particular emphasis on the next 6 months.

• 12 pm Lunch
• 1 pm Science requirements & performance budgets
  • 1:00 Introduction to goals & approach for afternoon discussions & where this fits into overall perspective * 1:10 Overview of Plan to develop system requirements through science cases
    • 1:30 Overview of Plan to develop system requirements through performance budgets

Sample cases (chosen because these are big levers on the design and they are ready for discussion; should cover status and plans to achieve system design deliverables):

• • • 1:45 Galactic center (Ghez, Cameron, Wizinowich) & astrometry error budget
    • 2:15 Debris disks and binary brown dwarfs (Liu, Macintosh, Neyman) & companion sensitivity/contrast performance budget (30 min)
    • 2:45 Break (15 min)
    • 3:00 Photometry of crowded fields &/or resolved stellar populations and photometry error budget (Dekany, Max) (30 min)
      • Olsen presentation (.ppt)
      • Dekany presentation (.ppt) (.pdf)
    • 3:30 High redshift Universe and encircled energy performance budget (Max) (30 min)
  • 4:00 Status & plans for simulations in support of science cases & performance budgets, including model assumptions & validation (Neyman, 30 min)
• 4:30 pm Wrap up & action items
• 5 pm Done

• NGAO_Irvine_meeting_0906.ppt: NGAO Irvine PPT - Management presentation - Peter Wizinowich
• Max_ScienceTeamMgmt.ppt: Talk on Science Team Mgmt 11 am - Claire Max
• Max_SysReqsThruSciCases.ppt: Talk 1:10 pm Science Requirements thru Science Cases - Claire Max
• Max_High_z_Universe.ppt: Talk at 3:30 pm High Redshift Universe and Encircled Energy Performance Budget - Claire Max
• NGAO_-_Sept_13_Meeting: NGAO astrometry error budget - Andrea Ghez
• Liu-NGAO-workshop-Sep2006.ppt: Debris disks and binary brown dwarfs - Mike Liu