Contact Information Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 28 Febat 4:00 pm EDT.

Date: 28 Feb 2006

Time: 4:00 pm EST (6:00 pm Santiago; 2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)

Phone: Phone: (434)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone 3rd floor). No Video planned.

Past agendas, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page. Discussion notes in Red font

News

The AOS TB  Shell Arises The AOS TB Shell Arises: 15 Feb

Topics

  • Science Requirements -- Yet another Version of the revised document is located in the Science area.
  • AIVCSV face-to-face/SRR followup -- discussion centers on late April Garching or Santiago.
  • EPO items:
    • Talk on ALMA Ops, NAASC in Victoria 17 August at Submillimeter Observing Techniques school. Any volunteers?
    • Talk on Great Observatories, 22-24 May in Pasadena. Volunteers?
  • ITU; Spectral line items.
  • ICDs:
    • Sci-Comp
    • Sci-Site
  • Calibration: ACA discussion held last Monday with Japan
  • DRSP: ASAC will ask for this to be expanded to include B4, B5, B8, B10(?) and ACA.
  • ASAC Charge. Board considering a charge to run through scheduling DRSP against site char results.
  • Operations redux. Plan quasi-approved. Budget has not been approved. This was the culmination of a lot of work. Situation is pretty much the same today. Some changes are needed--we have more flexibility, more mandate to minimize cost. The existing plan is OSF-centric. Technical and administrative items occur there. This is reflected in the buildings. They have been modified somewhat by cost. We still have the floor space but we might reconsider whether things could be done better in Santiago, at the Executives or by contractors. Building in Santiago is in baseline budget for Vitacura. The estimate is parametric at the moment. If a coherent case can be made for doing something more cost-effectively in Santiago, resources can be diverted to Santiago. IPTs must argue their way back into the OSF for that to occur. Antenna obviously an OSF task but perhaps not nutator. Cryostat needs to be done at OSF but perhaps not other r x items. Send Tiger Team from Santiago when needed. Of perhaps from CV or RAL. If Executives, then more spares probably needed. There are many options. The OSF building is going on but outfitting will reflect these decisions. Same for Santiago building. Timeline for turning around this discussion is probably a few months.

Science Corner:

Talk at UVa yesterday by Ed Thommes. Young planets interact with their parent gas disks through tidal torques. An imbalance between inner and outer torques causes bodies of mass $\ga 0.1$ Earth masses to lose angular momentum and migrate inward rapidly relative to the disk; this is known as ``Type I'' migration. But planets are observed. He proposed a Balbus-Hawley instability occurs in the midplane of the disk where stellar ionization is unimportant and cosmic ray ionization is also unimportant owing to column depth, a 'dead zone'. In this case, material accumulates in this zone and can modulate the migration of giant planets further out while nurturing the formation of terrestrial planets and circularizing their orbits. This has observable consequences for ALMA. Protoplanets that grow to gas giant mass, O($10^2) M_\oplus$, open a gap in the disk and are subsequently constrained to migrate more slowly, locked into the disk's viscous evolution in what is called "Type II" migration. The contrast between the gap formed by the giant planet and the higher column density in the inner region should make observation by ALMA achievable.

Calendar

Official JAO Calendar New!!

Events of Interest

(see also Al's ALMA Biweekly Calendar)

2005
 
 
 
 
 
Day Date Time (EST) Event location details
Thurs
Feb 23
1500UT
ALMA Board telecon
Telephone
 
Weds-Fri
22-24 March
all day
ALMA Board Meeting
Japan
TBD
Tues-Weds
13-14 June 2006?
all day
ALMA Board Meeting
Santiago
TBD
Thurs-Fri
9-10 November 2006
all day
ALMA Board Meeting
Madrid
TBD

Upcoming Meetings

"IR Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution". 14-16 November 2005, Pasadena, CA

Physique stellaire avec ALMA November 14/15, 2005, GRAAL - Montpellier.

Latin American IAU Regional Meeting 12-16 December, Pucon, Chile

National Radio Science Meeting 4-7 January, Boulder, Colorado

American Astronomical Society 9 Jan 2006 ALMA Town Meeting, Washington, D. C.

From ZMachines to ALMA 13-14 January, Charlottesville, VA

ASTROBIOLOGY SCIENCE CONVENTION (AbSciCon) 2006 2006 March 26--30 in Washington, D.C.

American Chemical Society - Special Session on Astrochemistry 2006 March 26--30 in Atlanta, GA

Complex Molecules in Space: present status and prospects with ALMA May 8 to 11, 2006, Fuglsoecentret, near Aarhus, Denmark

MAKING THE MOST OF THE GREAT OBSERVATORIES May 22-24, 2006 Pasadena, CA

SPIE 24-31 May, Orlando, Florida

61st OSU International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, June 19-23, 2006, Columbus Ohio USA

IAU XXVI General Assembly Prague, 14-25 August 2006 Sessions of Particular ALMA Interest

50th anniversary of the founding of NRAO October 15-19, 2006; Charlottesville, Virginia

Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) II November 13-16; Madrid, Spain

See also NAASC listing

-- AlWootten - 23 Feb 2006
Topic revision: r3 - 2006-02-28, AlWootten
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