A. Data Reduction:
 
 

Item	Person(s) responsible
Revise AIPS guidelines w/ examples (e.g. VS03l) and standard recipes; update misc. standard parameter values, AIPS scripts	Moellenbrock
Revise Difmap guidelines and macros   - '11'-step procedure  - 30 sec averaging  - selfant to up-weight HALCA  - Add phase difference plot in corplot. [DONE]  - etc.	Lovell
snedit.pl: Write SN table without flagged solutions	Lovell/Langston
SHEVE GRT Tsys data to ANTAB format	Tingay
Generate HALCA Tsys/Gain data	Moellenbrock
Develop automatic modelfit script	Tingay/Lovell
Difwrap enhancements:   - Save plots as postscript  - Write a file as models are tested  - Cube with NxMxL size  - Positive ranges of flux density, SMA etc.  - Ability to type in min and max when selecting search ranges  - Fit options other than "Model fit only" don't work at JPL. Problem?  - Show Number of grid points correctly  - Include a selfant GUI	Lovell
Modelfitting error analysis	Fomalont
Penticton Fringe-searching software generalization	Moellenbrock

B. Organizational:
 
 

Item	Person(s) responsible
Prioritize reduction of 2-GRT experiments and provide feedback to scheduler (some have already been rescheduled)	All
Updates to survey webpage/database  - "Results available" section needs fixing on experiment details page  - Links to sniffer plots from VLBA?  - Establish file format for input of time ranges, antennas and    tracking stations for GOT extractions.  - Add table entries for the above if it's a GOT extraction  - Add links to the RSF files from web pages  - Database search based on Analyst  - ASCII output of experiment summaries  - extra text to describe where the tapes are in experiment table.  - Include VLBA PLS data  - Update ATCA data	Lovell
Review entire survey observation list, especially clarify all survey extractions, multiples, and missing tapes. Send extraction requests to correlators.	Moellenbrock, Lovell/Fomalont
Remind analysts of the details of commitments	Moellenbrock/Lovell
With survey observation list corrected where necessary, distribute one-page survey statisticssummary and maintain an up-to-date version on the website.	Moellenbrock/Edwards
Determine which GOT PI's should get survey data according to AO and send it	Edwards
Survey data facts/histograms on web	Moellenbrock

Agenda (last updated 1 July 1999)

Saturday July 10

09:00 Review of goals of VSOP Survey
    1) The scientific goals [Hirabayashi]
    2) The organizational goals for data access. How we hope the
        mission and scientists over the world will interact with
        the results. [Hirabayashi]
    3) How will the Survey be published? [Hirabayashi, Fomalont]

09:30 Organization of Survey [Lovell]
    1) Management plan
    2) Survey Coordinator tasks

09:45 Survey scheduling summary: status and prospects. [Fomalont, Horiuchi, Moellenbrock]
    1) General statistics about observations made and planned
       through April 2000.
    2) How to continue?
    3) Quality of Survey observations?

10:30 Regional reports on data analysis progess (10 min each maximum)
    - JPL [Tingay]
    - NRAO [Moellenbrock, Fomalont]
    - Canada [Scott]
    - Japan [Horiuchi]
    - Australia [Dodson]
    - Europe [Gurvits]

11:20  Future data reduction plans [Moellenbrock]
    - Brief overview of data reduction path.
    - Overall plan for completing Survey data reduction
    - Realistic commitments over the next 6 months.
         How many experiments will be reduced in the next 6 months?
    - Distribution of data amongst data analysts
         How should this be done?

12:00  Review of Agenda for Monday and Tuesday

12:10 Lunch. Rest of day free.

Sunday July 11

Free day.
    o Visit Kamakura?
    o Climb Mt Fuji?
    o Visit central Tokyo.
    o Watch the Sumo.
    o Informal Survey discussions?
See also:
    o Japan information network - maps, statistics, news and lots of other stuff.
    o Japan Web Guide

Please find adequate web page using keywords above.

Monday July 12

9:00: Pre-imaging/Modeling steps (AIPS): [Moellenbrock]

    - FITLD (correlator dependence of some params)
    - MSORT
    - INDXR (CL interval)
    - OBTAB (needed?)
    - FIXWT (other options? importance?)
    - documentation/examination
    - ACCOR (correlator dependence)
    - ANTAB/APCAL (nominal Tsys; avail of real measurements)
    - FRING (FFT/LLS, stacking, ANTWT, etc., etc.)
    - BPASS (desired/needed?)
    - CALIB (needed? for GRTs only maybe?)
    - SPLIT (average chns/IFs?)
    - FITTP
    - Basic data product extraction?

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Imaging/model fitting steps (Difmap): [Lovell]
    - Using Difmap with extensions for VSOP
    - VS03l:
        - Similarities and differences in final results. Are we getting
            consistent results?
        - Imaging (use of weighting, phase/amplitude selfcal)
        - Different model fitting approaches and effects on Tb estimates
        - Are the results consistent?
    - Other imaging/model fitting issues.

16:00 Tests and trials as needed.

17:00 - End of day.

Tuesday July 13

9:00 Overlap/review from Monday. (Flexible time)

10:00 Special topics:
    - Comparison of Survey vs. GOT extraction [Piner / Lister]
    - Survey database and web site [Lovell / Horiuchi]
    - Fringe-fitting [Moellenbrock]
    - Rescheduling discussion (maybe push this to afternoon?)
       - Incorporating non-HALCA data. Status and work needed/planned
              (VLBA 5GHz and 15 GHz,  ATCA and VLA flux monitoring)

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Dataset commitments and distribution.

15:00 Review and action items.

17:00 End of meeting. Dinner at Cajun restaurant in Machida?