ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

; ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Telecon meeting August 16, 2012

The Milky Way rises over ALMA.: c Carlos Padilla (NRAO/AUI/ALMA)

Contact Information for those calling in.

• Call date: 2012-08-16 08:00 pm EDT or 24:00 UT (Thursday (Friday in Taipei))
• Duration: 1 hr
  * USA Number: 1-866-600-8836
• Outside USA Number: +1 203 480 8549
• Passcode: 3283890#
• Leaders: R. Osten (D. Calzetta), A. Wootten, C. Lonsdale

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• Attendees:

Topics

1. Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last meeting is available. Minutes from that meeting are available.
   • Adopt the Minutes?
   • We will reexamine telecon schedules at the f2f meeting.
2. New Business under Discussion.

Discussion Items

1. Welcome new ASAC member and Previous and once more ANASAC member Dick Plambeck
   • Thanks to Gordon Stacey for his service on ASAC!
2. Fall Face to Face meeting 20-21 Sept, Charlottesville.
   • Logistics page for participants
3. Effective Monday August 13, 2012, the NAASC is being reorganized to streamline management and improve efficiency.
4. Reports
   1. Construction Status
      • Science Section of July Report, from R. Hills.
      • 39 antennas at the AOS
      • AOS Roads: All 67km completed
      • Band 6 cartridge production finishing up.
      • Correlator to be shut down 3 September for upgrade to four-quadrant operation (64 inputs)
   2. Operations
      • Science Operations Section of July report, from DSO
      • Early Science Progress
        • List of highest ranked projects
        • As of Aug12, 218 (57%) of 383 SBs nominally completed (still need to pass QA2); 132 (34%) passed QA2 & delivered to PIs. 14 (34%) of 38 NA projects have some data delivered. 5 (13%) NA projects finished.
        • ARC-based data reduction started in early April. NA has processed 30 datasets; 12 being processed. Will be renewed focus going forward.
        • Project Tracker was deployed at end of June. Visible to PI's (and coIs?) of ALMA projects (including cycle 1) after logging in. Lists status of all SBs submitted to the archive. Documentation available at http://almasw.hq.eso.org/almasw/pub/OBOPS/ProjectTracker/ProjectTrackerManual.pdf (linked at top of first page before staring the application). MANUAL IS NOT SCIENCE USER VIEW. AWAITING INPUT FROM PROJECT AS TO WHAT SCIENCE USERS SHOULD SEE, AND WHICH SCIENCE USERS. WILL DEMO AT F2F.
        • What information on ALMA do you feel you are not getting? Please give us a top five and we'll fashion a FAQ. ( Action Item )
      • Cycle 1 Recap
        • Proposal deadline was July 12 1300UT.
        • Total number received ~1133 after duplications. See SP news item. Proposals have been distributed to referees.
        • Action Item: Feedback How did the proposal process go for you discussion at f2f meeting.
        • Proposal Review Oct 1-5; 77 Science Assessors in 11 panels. Results to PIs November; observations expected to start after completion of Cycle 0 (2012 Dec 31); 800 12-m Array hours to be scheduled; up to 800hrs for ACA.
      • Monthly Reports for previous months.
   3. NAASC during Early Science
      • People
        • S. Corder is en route to Chile to become CSV Project Scientist.
        • Sabbatical visitors Looney and Martini have arrived at NAASC.
        • ALMA postdoc applictions (at JAO) accepted until 31 August.
      • What is happening at the NAASC?
      • Meetings upcoming with ALMA or NAASC-related components (see below)
        • Special Session 'ALMA Early Science Commences' approved for AAS Jan 2013 (Long Beach, CA). Contributed abstracts will be accepted!
   4. ALMA Development (Wootten)
      • Studies proceeding.
5. ASAC activities (ASAC members)
   • 13 June telecon. There was a telecon 7 August.
6. Astronomer Outreach (Lonsdale, Wootten)
   • NAASC ALMA-related workshop(s) in 2012-3 (see below)
7. Date of next telecon
   • 12 Oct 2012 after f2f
8. Other Business
9. Outreach ALMA on NBC Rock Center
10. Astronomer Outreach: JAO ALMA Webpages; ALMA Newsletters; ARC-maintained wiki of ALMA science meetings and training events; NRAO eNews; NAOJ News.

Science Corner

1. More ALMA SV data papers have appeared:

• Kinematics of the CO Gas in the Inner Regions of the TW Hya Disk Katherine A. Rosenfeld, Chunhua Qi, Sean M. Andrews, David J. Wilner, Stuartt A. Corder, C. P. Dullemond, Shin-Yi Lin, A. M. Hughes, Paola D'Alessio, P. T. P. Ho

Events of Interest

2012
16 Aug	2012		ANASAC Telecon
13-15 Sep	2012		Emission from the ISM at High z Workshop	NAASC
20-21 Sep	2012		ANASAC f2f
1-5 Oct	2012		Proposal Review
8-9 Oct	2012		ASAC f2f
12 Oct	2012		ANASAC Telecon
22-25 Oct	2012		Annual ALMA Review	SCO
midNov	2012		Cycle 1 Results
13-15 Dec	2012		ALMA Science Meeting

Upcoming, very recent, or ongoing Meetings

• ALMA Science Meetings
• ALMA Training Events

1. 2012
   • Synthesis Imaging Workshop May 29 - June 5.
   • AAS No 220
     • June 14, 2:00-3:30pm Special Session.SS05.ALMA Early Science Results & Opportunities
   • 67th OSU International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
   • The Early Phase of Star Formation
   • USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting will be held the week of July 8-14, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois
   • IAU Beijing
   • Molecular Emission at High Redshift Comes of Age 14-15 Sept, NRAO Charlottesville
   • "Molecular Spectroscopy in the Era of Far-IR Astronomy Workshop" Oct 28-31 2012, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
   • New Trends in Radio Astronomy in the ALMA Era - The 30th Anniversary of Nobeyama Radio Observatory 3 December - 8 December 2012; The Prince Hotel, Hakone, Japan
   • Pan-Executive ALMA "First results" workshop in Chile: 12-15 Dec 2012. SOC, LOC orgainized and working.Working group: L. Testi, A. Wootten, M. Saito.
   • Joint workshop with ASIAA. Short Title: "2013 Rocks!" Long Title: "Transformational Science with ALMA: the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems" in Hawaii, April 2013; SOC formed.
   • Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Victoria, B. C., 2 June 2013 - Friday, 7 June 2013
   • Protostars and Planets VI: Heidelberg; 15 July 2013 - Saturday, 20 July 2013

-- AlWootten - 2012-08-08

• The Milky Way rises over ALMA.:
  

• Summary of ALMA Status: ANASAC2012Aug14Summary.txt

• Science Section of July report, from R. Hills: Science_-_July_2012.pdf

• Science Operations Section of July report, from DSO: SciOps_July2012_v4.pdf