FY07 budget is ready for board approval, copied to NSF, DOE. We are currently spending about $9.3M/year.
LSST R&D Plan is due to DOE by end of 1st week of October. Kathy Turner is sounding very optimistic.
NSF MREFC proposal volume 1 drafts are in collection-403, except Science section.
DS will start regular telecons with Ted Lavine, Thomas Frey, Diane Brouilette for Volume 2.
All Hands Agenda in work, each subsystem plan for 2.5 hrs in plenary.
Zeljko Ivezic and Michael Strauss responsible for Friday agenda, attendance, etc. Chuck Claver to notify them.
Pan-STARRS has finalized partners (JHU, Harvard, Max Planck)
Suzanne Jacoby
Seattle AAS meeting on 1/6/07 – 1/8/07, abstracts due 10/18/07.
Victor Krabbendam/Chuck Claver
First draft of new mirror contract by next week. Working on System Engineer sections of MREFC proposal.
Kirk Gilmore
Working on R&D plan.
Jeff Kantor/Tim Axelrod
DC1 heavy lifting is done, will create report, gave summary of results in monthly report.
Turned in DM section of R&D plan, working on contracts for FY07, will meet with CMU/UW/Google on 10/9 – 10/10 and with JHU on 10/12 – 10/13. Starting on System Integration and Commissioning sections of MREFC proposal.
Kem Cook
Simulator can do 10k sq degrees to full depth, 20k sq degrees to 75% depth.
David Burke
Chris Stubbs has done laser/lens illumination at CTIO, not the ultimate configuration (leaky fibers), no flatness, illumination statistics.
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