====== ALBiUS Telecon (23 March 2011) ======

We will talk about current status and recent updates with particular regard to the progress of ALBiUS milestones and deliverables at each partner institution.
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**The teleconference will start at 14UT (i.e. 15CET and 8 DST)**


====== Agenda ======

- Intro, status of the project.

- Progress reports from all partners. Please be brief. Identify bottlenecks and actions. Focus on the forthcoming deliverable reports.

 - ASTRON\\
 - UCAM\\
 - ESO\\
 - MPG\\
 - NRAO\\
 - UOXF\\
 - UMAN\\
 - BORD\\
 - JIVE\\

- Next Periodic report\\
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== Deliverable review: ==

ALBiUS deliverables (in chronological order):

6.3.1 RFI mitigation. Month 18 (delayed) *MPIfR*\\
6.2.4 Image plane polarization effects. Month 19 *UCAM* + wide field polarization *ESO* and Cavendish collaboration\\
6.1.1. Final report on calibration. Month 21 *JIVE*\\
6.1.2 Release of distributed ParselTongue. Month 21 *JIVE*\\
6.2.2 Direction dependent effects. Month 21 *UMAN* + ESO, NRAO (No atmospheric effect but related to primary beam correction) + ASTRON (Atmospheric effect)\\
6.2.3 Software for mosaicing including primary beam correction. Month 25 *ESO* (A-projection working in CASA mosaicing)\\
6.2.6 Astrometry. Month 28 *BORD*\\
6.3.3 Report on models for extended sources. Month 28 *ASTRON*\\
6.2.5 Image plane calibration. Month 30 *ASTRON* + ESO, UMAN and NRAO (A-projection integration in ALMA and e-Merlin)\\
6.3.2 Data quality and excision methods. Month 36 *UOXF*\\
6.2.1 Global fringe fitting. Month 36 *JIVE*\\

====== Minutes ======

Huib van Langevelde reports on Radionet news, including the next FP7 radionet proposal.\\
The 6 month extension has been introduced to the ALBiUS partner institutes.\\

Each institute reports on the current status of the ALBiUS work, with particular regard to the deliverables.\\

Astron: Wavelengths in description. work done in CASA imaging.\\

ESO: work on IDI FITs. Next release of CASA will include ALMA beam in A-projection. Testing has started. A list of other applications has been mentioned, including WSRT.\\

MPI: Difx implementation tested against OH interference and APERITIF dataset.

NRAO: Progress on ALBiUS fring fitting.\\
Regarding A-projection, work on beam model perturbation, which is crucial for ALMA.

UOXF: Testing eigenvalue decomposition. Possible interaction on data excision with Bourke or Beswich (on e-Merlin). UOXF may be underspending.

UMAN: Trying to work with MERLIN data. Express interest in fringe fitting.

UBORD: simulate group and phase delay. Work in collaboration with JPL.

JIVE: Promising work on fringe fitting has started in collaboration with NRAO. Work on interoperability and parseltongue are complete.


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===== Participants: =====

|**Name**|**Institute**|
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