ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

• ALMA Cycle 2 Call for Proposals is now open

Contact Information for those calling in.

• Call date: 2013-11-21 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: 3668477#
• Confirmation Number: 1883473
• Leaders: J. Carpenter, A. Bolatto, P. Jewell, A. Wootten, C. Lonsdale
• CV Room: 331

• Attendees:

Topics

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

Discussion Items

1. NAASC (Jewell)
   • ANASAC F2F Meeting 16-17 September
     • Report Response discussion
   • ASAC Documents are avaiable.
     • ASAC Report October 2013: Report presented to Board.
     • New Charge JAO response being developed. Attachment reflects last month status.
   • ALMA Development (Wootten)
     • See materials presented to ASAC for project-wide overview please
     • NA Calls
       • Studies recommendations complete.
       • Project referee reports to be discussed at 11/25 telecon.
2. Science Status (Hibbard)
   • Observing Status
     • Antennas at the AOS: 62 (50x12m, 12x7m). Antennas at the OSF: 4
     • Locations Array is similar to C32-3.
     • Last night: 38 antennas available for observation (29x12m, 9x7m)
     • Cycle 1 observations have completed two blocks since last telecon (Sessions 19 & 20).
     • ~80 "QA0 PASS" SBs (both 12-m Array and 7-m Array) amounting to ~107hrs for just completed Block 20 (Nov13-19).
     • Still no timeline for TP Array software acceptance. NAASC participating heavily in small Tiger Team to concentrate on this.
     • CBrogan, THunter just returned from 2.5mo deployment to CSV. KSheth just went down for 1mo deployment. RSimon finished 2 AoD shifts.
   • Cycle 1 "Duplication Checklist" was published to Science Portal on Nov. 4
   • OT patch issued Nov 18. All PI's who already submitted proposals were contacted directly. All registered users got email notification; banner & news item posted to SP.
   • Project Tracking
     • Both PI's and CoI's can now access PT!! Gives project status, #executions for each SB/OUS, date of observations. See KB article How do I track the observational progress of my project?. Have requested new requirement that users have option to select email notification for project status changes in the SP User Profile. No word yet on if this is accepted or for what release. Helps a lot that ASAC also made request for this.
     • You can query the ALMA Science Archive at over any range of dates to get list of projects observed. See KB article "Where can see a list of projects or targets that were observed by ALMA on a given date?"
3. NAASC during Early Science (Lonsdale)
   • The three main talks which were presented at the community days are now posted.
   • NAASC TV
   • Cycle 2 Support:
     • 41 KB articles published or updated for Cycle2. List of most popular and most recently published articles appears at bottom of Knowledgebase list
     • 130 Helpdesk tickets submitted since CfP (65 NA, 46 EU, 19 EA).
     • Have arrange for around-the-clock/weekend support close to the deadline.
   • Cycle 1 Support:
     • In-house Data Reduction: 58 SBs processed or being processed. 21 QA2 PASS. Currently: 8 staff reducing 25 SBs.
     • NA Data Deliveries: 11 SBs for 6 projects.
     • 2 Data Reduction visits since last telecon.
   • People
     • Postdoc advertisement out, applications due 2 Dec.
4. Astronomer Outreach (Lonsdale)
   • 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:
       • ESO:
         • "3D2014: Gas and Stars in Galaxies - A Multi-Wavelength 3D Perspective" March 10-14, 2014 ESO, Garching near Munich, Germany
         • Herbig Ae/Be stars: The missing link in star formation, 7-11 April 2014, Santiago
         • Also: Community Days. 19-20 November Garching.
       • NA:
         • 2014 AAS Meeting in Maryland outside Washington DC: ALMA Splinter session, NRAO Town Hall
         • 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting (13-17 February 2014).
           • Seeking newsworthy results for the Press events there.
           • 180 Minute Symposium: Technological Innovations and Their Impact on Astronomical Discovery (includes A. Peck on ALMA)
           • 180 Minute Symposium: From Dust and Molecules to Planets and Stars
           • 90 Minute Symposium: The Evolution of Galaxies in the Early Universe
         • 2014 Summer AAS Meeting: Boston TBD
         • 2014 NAASC Workshop Sep 14-18 2014 Charlottesville Topic will be the Assembly of Galaxies (roughly z~1 to whatever)
       • Other (SPIE Obsy Ops June 2014, Montreal)
   • Community Days.
     • NAASC CDE Calendar Fall 2013 Cycle 2
   • 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
   • 19 December 2013?
   • Proposed dates for 2013 telecons: 12/19. 2014: 1/16/14
6. Other Business

Science Corner

1. Memos and papers of note

1. Science Workshops and Meetings
2. 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

• Interim ASAC Charge for December 2013.: InterimChargeforDec.txt

• CSV Report to ASAC (to be updated for ASAC Charge discussion): ASAC2013OctEdinburghStatus.pdf