ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

Contact Information for those calling in.

• Call date: 2014-2-20 2:00 pm EST or 19:00 UT (Thursday (Friday in Taipei))
• Duration: 1 hr
  * USA Number: 1-866-692-4538
• Outside Tokyo in Japan Number: 0066-33-132434
• Outside USA +1-517-466-2084
• Passcode: 9480444#
• Confirmation Number: 1883473
• Leaders: A. Bolatto, P. Jewell, A. Wootten
• CV Room: 245

• Attendees:

Topics

1. Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last meeting and minutes are available.
2. New Business under Discussion.

Discussion Items

1. NAASC (Jewell)
   • As Ted Bergin has been appointed to the Visiting Committee, he has resigned from ANASAC. Thanks to Ted for his participation over the past two years.
   • CURRENT PRIORITIES [Week of Feb 17, 2014]
     • Data reduction
     • CASA testing
     • P2G: Technical Assessments: Feb 7-18; F2F 25-28
     • AoD assignments
     • Pipeline testing
     • Cycle 1 style re-deliveries: ongoing for next several weeks
   • First meeting under the new Terms of Reference (top of page)
   • ANASAC F2F Meeting 28 May
   • ASAC F2F meeting 31 Jan thru 1 Feb 2014, JAO
     • Materials
   • ALMA Development (Wootten)
     • NA Calls
       • Review Process and Proposed Project Slate: Methodology of the Call and results (see 2012 May agenda for previous Call discussion)
       • Studies, Projects recommendations complete, presented to ADSC, ALMA Director, ASAC for concurrence.
       • zipfile of all Project science cases and deliverables
2. Science Status (Hibbard)
   • Observing Status
     • Antennas at the AOS: 62 (50x12m, 12x7m). Antennas at the OSF: 2.
     • Locations Array is similar to C32-1.
     • Recent night: 38 antennas available for observation (28x12m, 8x7m)
     • Cycle 1 observations have completed two additional blocks since last telecon (Sessions 21 & 22); 59% efficiency in those two for the 12m array.
       • Projects: 89 with some observations (207 SBs); 70 with some components completed (165 SBs); 18 with some deliveries (38 SBs); 6 completed (10 SBs)
       • Data reduction: 46 projects being processed (81 SBs); 23 in the queue (36 SBs)
     • APeck (CSV support) in Chile.
3. NAASC during Early Science
   • NAASC TV
   • Cycle 2 Statistics summary in Science Portal and NRAO eNews.
   • Cycle 1 Support:
     • In-house Data Reduction: 81 EBs processed or being processed. 22 SBs QA2 PASS. Currently: staff reducing 12 SBs.
     • NA Data Deliveries: 22 SBs for 8 projects, 25 in flight.
     • 1 Data Reduction visits since last telecon.
   • People
     • Postdoc offer made.
4. Astronomer Outreach
   • Google calendars for ALMA Science and Training events now linked to from Science Portal (under Helpdesk link)
   • Next NAASC Workshop. Topic: Assembly of Galaxies. SOC, LOC active.
     • Regional workshops are planned:
       • NA:
         • 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting (13-17 February 2014).
           • 180 Minute Symposium: Technological Innovations and Their Impact on Astronomical Discovery (included P. Jewell on ALMA)
           • 180 Minute Symposium: From Dust and Molecules to Planets and Stars
           • 90 Minute Symposium: The Evolution of Galaxies in the Early Universe
         • 14th Synthesis Imaging School May 13-20, Socorro
         • 2014 Summer AAS Meeting: Boston TBD
         • International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy ALMA Session at the 69th Meeting - June 16-20, 2014 - Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
         • 2014 NAASC Workshop 4-7 Aug 2014 Transformational Science in the ALMA Era: Multi-Wavelength Studies of Galaxy Evolution. Charlottesville
         • ALMA Conference 2014. "Revolution in Astronomy with ALMA -- The Third Year" 2014 December 8 to 11 at Tokyo International Forum near Tokyo Station
         • Proposal for IAU GA Focus session on VLA-ALMA science submitted.
       • Other (SPIE Obsy Ops June 2014, Montreal) * Other Astronomer Outreach: JAO ALMA Webpages; ALMA Newsletters; ARC-maintained wiki of ALMA science meetings and training events; NRAO eNews; NAOJ News.
5. Date of next telecon
   • 17 April 2014
   • Proposed dates for 2014 telecons: 20 Feb,17 Apr, 28 May (f2f), 17 Jul,18 Sep,20 Nov
6. Other Business

Science Corner

1. Memos and papers of note
   • 96 published refereed ALMA papers, 63 from Cycle 0 and 1 from Cycle 1. There are 130 papers of all flavors with 751 citations.
2. Recent releases
3. ALMA Papers (choose ALMA) 110 and counting (more on arxiv not yet listed here)

Events of Interest

Upcoming, very recent, or ongoing Meetings

1. ALMA Science Meetings
2. ALMA Training Events

• ALMA NA Projects Funded 2014-2015: ALMA_Development_PROJECTSv25.pdf

• ALMA Studies Funded 2014-2015: NA_ALMA_Dev_2014_Study_Sum_v2.pdf

• Review Process and Proposed Project Slate: ALMA_Development_FundedSummary-Projects2013.pdf