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AGENDA

Chandra Users' Committee Meeting
29-30 October 2009
Pratt, CfA, 60 Garden St.

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Thursday 29 October


09:00 Opening Remarks Harvey Tananbaum

09:10 Chandra Status Report Ed Mattison

09:45 Director's Discretionary Time Harvey Tananbaum

10:00 Cycle 11 Peer Review Summary
LP/VLP Programs
Belinda Wilkes

10:30 CXC Website Andrea Prestwich

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 MUPS Anomaly
Science/Engineering Overview
CXC Coordination
Tom Aldcroft

Belinda Wilkes

12:00 LUNCH

13:15 CAL: Goals, Priorities, and Plans
HRMA effective area
ACIS contamination and time dependence
CAL webpages
Larry David

14:00 CIAO Update
User survey
New threads, scripts and example files
Longterm plans
Jonathan McDowell [pdf] [ppt]

14:45 Tea/Coffee Break

15:15 Chandra Source Catalog: Update
Catalog access and interfaces Sky coverage
New User Experience
Ian Evans [pdf] [ppt]

16:00 Demo: Footprint/Observation info on the web Ken Ebisawa

16:15 Adjourn



Friday 30 October

Executive Session: Pratt [not a public session]

          09:00 - 15:00 - includes setting date for next meeting




11/03/09





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