ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Telecon
Phone Meeting 2005-March-17
- Call date: 2005-3-17 19:00 UT (Thursday)
- Call time 14:00 EST or 19:00 UT
- Duration: 1 hr
- USA Number: 877-874-1919
- Outside USA Number: +1 203-320-9891
- Passcode: 185064
- Leader: Al Wootten
Old Business --
Agenda of 18 February 2005 meeting.
Minutes.
New Business -- Agenda
ALMA Project News (van den Bout)
ASAC (Turner) --
- Response to charges from the ALMA Board -- ANASAC input to ASAC Charges
- Beasley presentation to ASAC
- Pan-ALMA Meeting (Carilli)
Face-to-face meeting-- (Yun)
- Meet Sunday 2005 June 12 before Workshop on submillimeter wavelength astronomy. 1 pm at 160 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Charge: Were ALMA rebaselining to result in a number of antennas from 36 to 56,
- What would be the impact on the attainability of the level 1 science requirements?
- What would be the loss os speed, image quality, mosaicing ability, and point-source sensitivity?
- Would ALMA be sufficiently transformational to warrant continued support by the United States?
- Is there a particular threshhold in antenna number, below which ALMA would suffer a sufficient degradation in its performance in the above or in other relevant scientific areas sufficiently serious to warrant attention?
- Selection of new ANASAC Chairperson
- CAA membership
Any Other Matters Arising
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).
ANASAC Membership beginning March 2005:
- Andrew Blain (ASAC Member) (2007)
- Chris Carilli (ASAC Member) (2006)
- Dick Crutcher (2006)
- Jason Glenn (2006)
- Xiaohui Fan (2007)
- Christine Wilson (ASAC Member) (2007)
- Lee Mundy (ASAC Member) (2007)
- Jean Turner (ASAC Chair) (2007)
- Min Yun (ANASAC Chair) (2006)
- Doug Johnstone (2007)
- Mark Gurwell (2006)
- Joan Najita (2006)
- Paul Ho (2008)
- Crystal Brogan (2008)
- Andrew Baker (2008)
- John Bally (2008)
- Mel Wright (2008)
- Jonathan Williams (2008)
Date of next phone meeting According to our current schedule the next one should be on:
2005-4-29 18:00 UT (Friday)
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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Wednesday |
March 9 |
3-4pm |
NAWG Videocon |
CV-ER311 |
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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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Thursday |
March 17 |
19:00 UT |
ANASAC telecon |
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891 Passcode: 185064 |
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March 19-23 |
all day |
2005 IEEE ICASSP |
Philadelphia |
Monday |
March 21 |
3:30 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 - 15 Mar 2005