ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

Contact Information for those calling in.

• Duration: 1 hr
  * USA Number: 866-692-3582
  • Passcode: 5862937 #
• Leaders: K. Oberg, P. Jewell, A. Wootten
• CV Room: CV-331

• Attendees:

Agenda

Topics

1. Old Business
   • Minutes from previous meeting
   • Preliminary f2f meeting report.
     • Remijan prepared a short draft in response to the Time Critical White Paper. Please review at: NAASC_TimeCriticalResponse.pdf. Once approved, please pass along to the Authors of the white paper per the agreement made at the ANASAC f2f.
2. New Business under Discussion.

Discussion Items

1. NAASC
   • Cycle 4 progress update
     • Last NRAO eNews provides a summary. The 12m array is operating again, in a C40-5 hybrid array; ACA and TP arrays recovered sooner and are providing data. A new schedule for configurations is under study and some roads/antennas still need snow and ice removal for antenna moves to continue to C40-9.
   • Cycle 5 begins 1 October. Proposal review results expected ca week 24 July.
     • Any APRC comments?
   • Meeting updates:
     • ASAC Minutes 11 July 2017: ES_notes_July11.txt
     • ASAC 1-2 October 2017, Kyoto
     • Long Baseline Workshop, Kyoto 3-5 October 2017 Abstract Deadline 1 August, registration 1 Sep, hotel rooms asap.
2. ALMA Development
   • Development update.
     • Band2+ Project passed PDR on 30 May. Presentations summarizing the PDR presentations are at the link.
     • New NA Project call closed 30 Jan 2017.
     • New NA Studies Call closed 1 May 2017
       • Proposals are being refereed
       • New Study reports are available.
3. Press Releases
4. ALMA Papers (choose ALMA)

Events of Interest

1. ALMA Science Meetings
   • URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium 19-26 August, Montreal.
   • Also of interest:
     • The Centimetre/Millimetre/Submillimetre Q&U (&V) ESO Workshop 2017 (QUESO2017) will be held at ESO Headquarters in Garching, Germany 25 – 27 October 2017. The workshop will cover diverse topics spanning interferometric and single dish cm/mm/submm polarisation observations, instrumentation for polarisation, calibration of the QUV components, and advanced analysis, and modelling. Our review talks cover science topics including AGN, star-formation, and evolved stars. We welcome talks about polarisation observations of any scientific topics.
     • NRAO Town Hall at AAS on Thursday evening, 11 January 2018, 6:30 – 8:00 pm EST
     • A workshop to discuss science/technical aspects of the Atacama Large-Aperture Submm/mm Telescope (AtLAST) ESO-HQ, Garching b. München, Germany January 17-19, 2018
     • Magnetic Fields or Turbulence: Which is the critical factor for the formation of stars and planetary disks? Tuesday, 6 February 2018 - Friday, 9 February 2018 Hsinchu, Taiwan
     • AAAS Symposium 'The Chemistry and Physics of Nascent Planetary Systems' , Speakers: Karin Oberg (Harvard), David Wilner (CfA), Meredith Hughes (Wesleyan); 15-19 February 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas exact date TBA
     • The Cosmic Cycle of Dust and Gas in the Galaxy: from Old to Young Stars 9-13 July 2018 Quy Nhon, Vietnam at ICISE