Attendance: Shaul, Amy, Jamie, Nick, Al,

Notes by:

• Workshops (Raphael, Shaul)
  • Foregrounds: 24 registrants to date (6 days); No major fallout from date change; working on program; PLEASE ADVERTISE.
  • Science + S4: updates from Lloyd, Julian.
• Status of Spectrometer decision (Al, Amy)
  • See path to decision below.
• Update from data challenge (Lloyd, Julian)
• Update from Extragalactic WG (Nick Battaglia)

• Spectrometer: Path to Decision
  1. Cost estimate arrives by Monday Sept. 25. - Complete ($38M; excludes cooling costs)
  2. Amy/JPL digest for a few days and then preliminary discussion with Shaul during the JPL weekly telecon on Thursday Sept. 28.
  3. Preliminary report to EC on Oct. 4.
  4. More iterations with, and analysis by, JPL + iteration with science teams/EC
  5. Decision point during telecon of Oct. 18.