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- 2005-3-15 14:30 UT
- Duration: 1 hr
- USA Toll Free Number: 877-874-1919
- Toll Number: +1-203-320-9891
- Passcode: 185064
- Leader: Al Wootten
Topics
- Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last month's meeting is available. Science IPT from last month's telecon were misplaced.
DUSTY04 collection of papers relevant to ALMA.
- New Business--Project news/updates (Wootten, Wilson, Kawabe)
- Milestones--09.2.17.2 Complete draft ICD between Science and Site Planned
- Subarrays--by frequency, four for ALMA, two for ACA independently tuned
- Group Activities (all)
- Next meeting is on April 19th (14:30 UT)
Science IPT Group Activity Reports
Please include your Group Activity Report here (How to Enter Your Report), or email it to AlWootten
1 Science IPT
2 ASAC news Report due 22 March
3 Antennas
4 Astronomer Outreach: NRAO
Newsletter ESO
Newsletter. NRAO ALMA
Calendar
Emerson/Laing -- Instrument Scientists
- The 64 antenna Y+ configuration was approved by the CCB 2005 March 3.
- Notes from configuration redesign telecon.
- Notes from an expedition to investigate a quebrada currently masked off but which may be suitable for antenna placement in its northern part. Nyman and Rivera confirm this.
Robert Lucas -- SSR
- Meeting on 2005-3-09: Minutes last meeting
- Note particularly Ed Fomalont's document 'Scientific Input to Tunable Filter Use'
Michiel Hogerheijde -- DRSP
Mark Holdaway/Steve Myers -- Imaging
- Minutes of 1 March Imcal meeting, devoted to imaging.
- Also see NRAO Algorithms Working Group Minutes.
- The meteorological instruments group was to define the 'ancillary devices'; the current draft of that is in almaedm at: http://tinyurl.com/5ns7e
- The second task was to define the interface of the ancillary devices to the site. The current draft of that document is in almaedm at: http://tinyurl.com/43gvn
- Angel noted that a Weather predictionpage can be useful for Chajnantor.
Science Corner:
From the SMA Calendar: The extraordinarily good weather, at least on some nights, continued last week. On a night when the 225 GHz opacity was 0.03 (MAR 1), the 183 GHz water maser line was observed toward the active galactic nucleus in NGC3079 and tentatively detected (zenith opacity of about 0.8). The continuum emission in the upper sideband at 193 GHz (zenith opacity of about 0.05) was clearly detected (see Test Log Entry 8949; and rumors).
Calendar
Events of Interest
(see also Al's
ALMA Biweekly Calendar)
2005 |
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Day |
Date |
Time (EST) |
Event |
location |
details |
Wednesday |
March 9 |
11:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Software Science Req. Group Telecon |
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Tuesday |
March 15 |
14:30UT |
Science IPT telecon |
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891 Passcode: 185064 |
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Tuesday |
March 15 |
15:30UT |
ASAC telecon |
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Tuesday |
March 15 |
4-5pm |
Science IPT Imaging telecon |
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Wednesday |
March |
3-4pm |
NAWG Videocon |
CV-ER311 |
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March 19-23 |
all day |
2005 IEEE ICASSP |
Philadelphia |
Monday |
March 21 |
5:45 pm |
2005 IEEE ICASSP Radio Astronomy Session |
Philadelphia |
Tues-Thurs |
March 22-24 |
all day |
JAO/IPT Meeting |
Garching |
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Tuesday |
March 29 |
all day |
CVR review |
Charlottesville |
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Monday |
April 04 |
all day |
Executive meeting |
Pasadena, CA |
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Tue-Wed |
April 5-6 |
all day |
AMAC Face-to-face meeting |
Pasadena, CA. |
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Thu-Fri |
April 7-8 |
all day |
ALMA Board Face-to-face meeting |
Pasadena, CA. |
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Sat |
April 9 |
morning |
Bilateral meeting |
Pasadena, CA. |
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Tuesday |
April 12 |
14:30UT |
Science IPT Videocon |
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891 Passcode: 185064 |
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Wednesday |
April 13 |
3-4pm |
NAWG Videocon |
CV-ER311 |
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Friday |
April 29 |
2-3pm |
ANASAC Telecon |
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Wednesday |
May 04-5 |
all day |
WVR PDR |
Gothenburg, Sweden |
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Mon-Thurs |
May 29-Jun 2 |
all day |
AAS Minneapolis |
ALMA booth part of NRAO booth |
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Friday |
June 24 |
2-3pm |
ANASAC Telecon |
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Friday |
August 26 |
2-3pm |
ANASAC Telecon |
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Friday |
October 28 |
2-3pm |
ANASAC Telecon |
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Upcoming Meetings
Dusty and Molecular Universe 27-29 October 2004, Paris Presentations Online
2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing March 19-23 2005, Philadelphia See
Radio Astronomy Session; ALMA
Article for ICASSP. Comments? Reviews welcomed.
The SZ Effect and ALMA 7-8 April 2005, Orsay (Paris area), France
IAU Symposium 227 Massive Star Birth: A Crossroads of Astrophysics May 16-20 2005, Acireale, Italy
Workshop on submillimeter wavelength astronomy JUN 13-16 in Cambridge.
The 2005 Gordon Conference on the Origins of Solar Systems, JUN 26 - JUL 1 at Connecticut College
Astrochemistry throughout the Universe: Recent Successes and Current Challenges 2005 August 29 - September 2; Asilomar, California
Protostars and Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii
50th anniversary of the founding of NRAO October 15-19, 2006; Charlottesville, Virginia
ALMA November 13-16; Madrid, Spain
See also
NAASC listing
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AlWootten - 07 Mar 2005