ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee
; ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Telecon meeting Jan 20, 2012
Twenty-seven antennas are shown in place at the AOS in late December. Photo J. Guarda c ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO).
- Call date: 2012-01-20 04:00 pm EST or 21:00 UT (Friday)
- Duration: 1 hr
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- Leaders: R. Osten, A. Wootten, C. Lonsdale
Topics
- Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last meeting is available. Minutes from that meeting are available.
- New Business under Discussion.
Discussion Items
- Report on ALMA progress at Chile (Wootten)
- Construction -
- Operations
- Current Status
- Cycle 1 Lookahead
- Call, Deadline expected boreal spring 2012.
- Observations expected after completion of Cycle 0.
- NAASC during Early Science
- All PIs have been notified of the status of their projects.
- AAS No 219 has occurred--any feedback? * ALMA Development
- NSF portfolio review. The deadline for any community-based input to the NSF senior review is Jan. 31.
- ASAC activities
- Recent Agenda, 18 January.
- A response from the JAO to the ASAC recommendations is included at the ASAC agenda linked above.
- Astronomer Outreach:
- NAASC ALMA-related workshop(s) in 2011 (+)
- Meeting preregistration: Outflows, Winds and Jets: from Young Stars to Supermassive Black Holes
- Committees (SOC) NAASC: Lonsdale, Lacy, Brogan, Kimball; ANASAC: Neufeld, Padgett, Scott, Williams, Wilner; Taiwan: Hsien, Ho; GBT, EVLA, VLBA: Lockman, Chandler
- Mar 3-6, 2012, Charlottesville
- Dates of next telecons
- 20 Apr 2012
- 16 Mar 2012
- 17 Feb 2012
- Other Business
- Astronomer Outreach: JAO ALMA Webpages; ALMA Newsletters; ARC-maintained wiki of ALMA science meetings and training events; NRAO eNews; NAOJ News.
Science Corner
First
ALMA SV data has appeared!
Events of Interest
2012 |
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11 Jan |
2012 |
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Special Session |
Austin |
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13 Jan |
2012 |
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NRAO CDE |
Berkeley |
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20 Jan |
2012 |
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ANASAC Telecon |
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17 Feb |
2012 |
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ANASAC Telecon |
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22-23 Feb |
2012 |
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ASAC f2f |
ESO ARC |
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3-6 Mar |
2012 |
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Science Workshop |
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16 Mar |
2012 |
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ANASAC Telecon |
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20 Apr |
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ANASAC Telecon |
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Upcoming, very recent, or ongoing Meetings
USNC-URSI 4-7 January, 2011, Boulder, Colorado
219th AAS Meeting 9-12 January, Austin, Texas
Cosmic Masers: From OH to Ho, IAU Symposium 287 January 29 - February 3 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Outflows, Winds and Jets: from Young Stars to Supermassive Black Holes 2012 Sat, March 3, 2012 Tue, March 6, 2012 Charlottesville, Va
Pan-Executive ALMA "First results" workshop in Chile: likely delayed until December. Working group: L. Testi, A. Wootten, M. Saito.
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AlWootten - 2012-01-18