ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

José Velásquez Winner in the category “People and Activities”. Image entitled "DV 09".

Contact Information for those calling in.

• Call date: 2013-6-20 02:00 pm EDT or 18:00 UT (Thursday (Friday in Taipei))
• Duration: 1 hr
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• Outside Tokyo in Japan Number: 0066-33-132434
• Outside USA +1-517-466-2084
• Passcode: 3668477#
• Confirmation Number: 1883473
• Leaders: J. Carpenter, P. Jewell, A. Wootten, C. Lonsdale

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• Attendees:

Topics

1. Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last meeting is available. Minutes from that meeting are available.
2. New Business under Discussion.

Discussion Items

1. Construction Status (Wootten)
   • Antennas at the AOS: 58 (46x12m, 12x7m). Locations
   • Antennas at the OSF: 4
2. Operations (Hibbard)
   • Daniel Espada will Join us early July.
   • From todays ALMA Science Portal
     • ALMA Cycle 0 final report: Jun 19, 2013
     • A final report on ALMA Cycle 0 is now available. This report, presented as a downloadable PDF file<https://almascience.nrao.edu/Cycle0Summary2013June12SP.pdf>, provides the final status of ALMA Cycle 0 observations as well as an overview of how observing progressed, including performance statistics per band, LST range and of other parameters. It also provides a historical record of what was done in Cycle 0, and should help proposers to prepare observations for future Cycles.
3. F2F Meeting DoodlePoll
   • ASAC meets 9-10 Oct.
   • Problem days: Sept 21 – UVa home game, Sep 27-29 Family weekend at UVA, Oct 5 – UVa home game
   • Are there other days we should have included???
4. ASAC Items from 5 June telecon
5. ALMA Development (Wootten)
   • Callwas issued via eNews, direct email.
   • The attached document provides definition of the NA ALMA Development Program strategic objectives and goals. Alberto also inquired whether or not the selection criteria are listed in order of importance. The criteria are not listed in order of importance, nor are they weighted.
     • Please nominate reviewers for Studies and Projects!
     • Report on post-receipt processing of ALMA Development Studies from Nov 2011 Call.: ALMA_Development_RankedSummaryANASAC.pdf
     • Review Panel Instructions and Guidelines: Review_Panel_Instructions_and_Guidelines.pdf
   • Band 2 Workshop. Talks are posted.
   • Development-NA Workshop held Charlottesville 18 April 2013
   • Studies proceeding. Call for Studies ca 1 May. Call for Proposals 3 June. Object is to get all done within 2013 fiscal year.
6. NAASC during Early Science (Lonsdale)
   • People
   • Meetings with ALMA or NAASC-related components (see above)
     • Next NAASC Workshop? Rachel, Douglas and Daniela volunteered for SOC
     • IAU Symposium No. 303 The Galactic Center Santa Fe 30 Sept - 4 Oct
     • AAS Indianapolis report.
     • CASCA report.
     • AAS DC area next January
   • What is happening at the NAASC?
     • For Cycle 1, all Contact Scientist assignments have made.
       • Focusing on batch 4 SBs; PI approval by June 10. Batch 5 released by JAO June 1.
       • in total 48 from Batch 1,2,3 approved by PIs.
     • Pipeline:
       • More NA staff assigned temporarily, to assist with validating regression test datasets.
       • Some regression test SBs are now being used by CSV, during the C1 lull.
       • Weblog workshop last week: requirements for user interface and documents.
       • New heuristics release expected by May 24.
     • Cycle 2 preparation
       • Continuing on revised schedule, 3 month delay. Call now forseen 24 Oct 2013, due 5 December.
       • Evaluating technical issues that tripped up or confused Cycle 1 proposers and correcting, updating materials and planning new materials if warranted
         • eg first video, about LAS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm8WtLo9C9Q&feature=youtu.be
7. Astronomer Outreach (Lonsdale, Wootten)
   • How did the ANASAC canvas of the community go?
     • what factors might be limiting people from proposing, eg.:
     • Not aware how it could help their science
     • Not aware of the big leap afforded by its capabilities
     • Think it's too difficult to use for a non-expert
     • Waiting till it's fully built and/or there's much more time available on it
     • Lack of funding
   • Planning a series of short webinars focused on specific topics
   • Will do a series of Community Days this summer / fall
   • Cycle 2 preparation outreach
     • Splinter session at AAS.
     • OT-focused webinars (90 min)
     • New set of reference simulations
   • Special session at winter AAS.
   • Other Astronomer Outreach: JAO ALMA Webpages; ALMA Newsletters; ARC-maintained wiki of ALMA science meetings and training events; NRAO eNews; NAOJ News.
8. Science Corner
   • A Major Asymmetric Dust Trap in a Transition Disk Nienke van der Marel (1), et al.
   • Press Releqse
9. Date of next telecon
   • 18 July 2013
   • Proposed dates for 2013 telecons: 7/18, 8/16, 9/19, 10/17, 11/21, 12/19
10. Other Business

Science Corner

1. Science Workshops and Meetings
   • Recent
     • ALMA Band 2 Workshop 29 May Charlottesville
     • Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems Victoria, B. C., 2 June 2013 - Friday, 7 June 2013
   • Upcoming
     • Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems Victoria, B. C., 2 June 2013 - Friday, 7 June 2013
     • Seventh NAIC/NRAO Single-Dish Summer School Arecibo. 10-17 July 2013
     • IAU Symposium No. 303 The Galactic Center Santa Fe 30 Sept - 4 Oct
2. ALMA Papers (choose ALMA) 42 and counting (more on arxiv not yet listed here)
3. Some recent ALMA presentations:
   • NealFest 'Recent ALMA Results'
   • NAASC data reduction workshop (pdf)
   • NAASC data reduction workshop (ppt)
   • ALMA Results for AUI Board
   • ALMA Science Conference presentations now being populated.
   • The Interstellar Medium in High Redshift Galaxies Comes of Age Charlottesville, Virginia, 13-15 September 2012. Proceedings now published.

Events of Interest

2013
20 June	2013		ANASAC Telecon
21 June	2013		Band 1 Science Spec Review
18 July	2013		ANASAC Telecon

(see also google calendars)

Upcoming, very recent, or ongoing Meetings

1. ALMA Science Meetings
2. ALMA Training Events

-- AlWootten - 2013-06-07

• Report on post-receipt processing of ALMA Development Studies from Nov 2011 Call.: ALMA_Development_RankedSummaryANASAC.pdf

• Review Panel Instructions and Guidelines: Review_Panel_Instructions_and_Guidelines.pdf

• NA ALMA Development Program strategic objectives and goals: North_American_ALMA_Development_Program_-_Stragetic_Objective_and_Goals.pdf

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