This page contains information and documents mostly related to the NIKA colaboration meetings. Some other important information not necessarily presented during meetings but usefull to the collaboration may also be posted here, at the exception of elements directly related to the test runs at the 30m telescope (organization, daily reports, offline data processing) which are posted at the NIKA section of the 30m telescope wiki pages.

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11- 2011 July 12. NIKA Data meeting at IRAM Grenoble:

  Main subject: status of the work done by F-X Désert and R. Zylka on the last run data processing.
  Minutes: pdf.
    Introduction (S. Leclercq): pdf.
  Presentations:
    Status of NIKA run 2 offline processing (F-X. Désert): pdf.
    Oddities found in NIKA data (R. Zylka): txt file of comments on the images below, or all these gathered in one pdf file

  Additional documents:
    The dual-band NIKA: Technical Note on Calibration v2 (F-X. Désert): pdf.
    Estimations of the grid distortion from Zemax simulation (S. Leclercq): pdf.

10- 2010 November 26. NIKA meeting at IRAM Grenoble:

  Main subject: 1^st processed results of the October 2010 test run at the 30m telescope.
  Minutes: doc.
  Presentations:
    Néel - Néel IRAM KIDs Array (M. Monfardini): ppt.
    IPAG (ex LAOG) - NIKA run 2 offline processing (F-X. Désert): ppt / pdf.
    Néel - NIKA evolution (A. Benoit): pdf.
  Additional document: Predicted and measured transmission spectrum (A. Bideaud & A. Monfardini): bmp.

9- 2010 August 31. NIKA meeting at IRAM Grenoble:

  Main subject: evaluate whether the new version of NIKA is ready for a new test run in October.
  Minutes: doc.
  Presentations:
    Néel - Status (M. Monfardini): ppt.
    SRON - Antenna coupled Kinetic Inductance Detectors camera design and performance at IRAM 30m telescope (A. Baryshev): pdf.

2010 October. NIKA 2 test run 2 at the 30m telescope.

8- 2010 July 22. NIKA meeting at IRAM Grenoble:

  Main subject: Status of the developments of new version of NIKA.
  Minutes: doc.
  Presentation: Néel - Status (A. Monfardini): ppt.
  Bonus: Article published in A&A in June: NIKA: A millimeter-wave kinetic inductance camera (A. Monfardini et al): pdf.

7- 2009 December 15. NIKA meeting at IRAM Grenoble:

  Main subject: results of the October 2009 run after data processing, LEKID optimisation, futur optics.
  Participants and minutes of the meeting: doc.
  Presentations:
    LAOG - NIKA Oct 2009 Run: Calibration & Sensitivity (F-X. Désert): ppt / pdf.
    AIG Cardiff - LEKID Optimisation (S. Doyle): pdf.
    Roma Sapienza - Status of mm-Lekid characterization in Rome (M. Calvo): ppt.
    Néel - Camera IRAM (A. Benoit): ppt.

6- 2009 November 12. NIKA meeting at IRAM Grenoble:

  Main subject: preliminary results of the 1^st test run of NIKA at the 30m telescope in October 2009.
  Presentation: Néel - Run history and preliminary results (A. Monfardini): ppt.

5- 2009 October. Additional document, before the 1^st test run of NIKA at the 30m telescope:

  Presentation: Néel - Prerun Summary: 30 pixel LEKIDs array (L. Swenson): pdf.

2009 October. NIKA test run 1 at the 30m telescope.

4- 2009 September 4. NIKA meeting at IRAM Grenoble:

  Main subject: status of the lab test of NIKA.
  Presentations:
    Néel - Neel IRAM KIDs Array (M. Monfardini): ppt.
    AIG Cardiff - NICA Optical testing summary (S. Doyle): ppt.

3- 2009 April 23. KIDs for IRAM meeting at Néel:

  Agenda: Consortium management, requirement for the instrument, status of on going work in the participants labs.
  Participants and minutes of the meeting: doc.
  Presentations:
    IRAM - Requirements, constrains & schedule for this Summer test (S. Leclercq): ppt.
    AIG Cardiff - LEKIDs design and testing, filters, electronics & plans (S. Doyle): not available.
    SRON - Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays for IRAM (J. Baselmans): ppt.
    Roma Sapienza - LEKIDs testing, presentation of the group, 300mK setup and plans (M. Calvo): not available.
    Néel - Cryostat and optics, filters, recent tests on KIDs and NbSi, FPGA (A. Monfardini): ppt.

2- 2009 March 17. KID-Néel-IRAM meeting at Néel:

  Main subject: conditions to test a prototype at the 30m telescope.
  Minutes: doc / pdf.

1- 2008 October. Link to the technical meeting at IRAM Grenoble, that triggered the birth of the NIKA collaboration.