ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Telecon
Phone Meeting 2007, March 7
This page available at
https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/ALMA/09Mar07Agenda.
- Call date: 2007-03-07 19:00 UT (Friday)
- Call time 14:00 EST or 19:00 UT
- Duration: 1 hr
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- Leaders: Chris Carilli, Jon Williams
Attendance
ANASAC Members (
Attendees in RED):
- Andrew Baker (Rutgers) (2008)
- John Bally (U. Col.) (2008)
- Andrew Blain (Caltech) (2007)
- Todd Clancy (SSI) (2009)
- Xiaohui Fan (U. Az.) (2007)
- Terry Herter (Cornell) (2009)
- Paul Ho (CfA, Harvard) (2008)
- Kelsey Johnson (UVa) (2009)
- Doug Johnstone (HIA/DAO, Victoria) (2007)
- Lee Mundy (U. Md) (2007)
- Jaqueline van Gorkom (Columbia) (2007)
- Alycia Weinberger (DTM) (2009)
- Jonathan Williams (U. Hawaii) (2008)
- Christine Wilson (McMaster U.) (2007)
- Mel Wright (UC Berkeley) (2008)
(
Bold = Member of ASAC)
NRAO:
- J. Hibbard
- A. Wootten
- Carilli
- Brogan
Agenda
1) Old Business (Carilli)
Minutes of 08 Dec 2006 meeting. Approved
Action items from last time:
- ACTION: Future science meetings
- WHO: All
- Due: June 07
- Done:
3) Update on ASAC (Mundy)
ASAC Web Pagehttps://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/ALMA/AlmaSac
4) Update on ALMA Ops, NAASC proposals (Carilli/Hibbard)
See supplemental material
NSF panel Chair Jean-Rene Roy -- Gemini Observatory South director
AOP international review panel Chair -- Pierre Cox - IRAM director
5) ALMA Workshops (Brogan)
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/naasc/disk07/
6) Next Telecon
- Date of next phone meeting will be on: April 27, 2007
Supplemental Material
Announcement from AUI/NRAO DO on ALMA ops plan review
On another topic, we just successfully completed two ALMA operations
reviews. One was an international review of the ALMA Operations Plan;
the other was an NSF review of our proposal for conducting North
American ALMA Operations and for the
NAASC. The initial debriefings by
the review committees were extremely positive. While we must await
receipt of the written reports before providing a definitive summary,
you should know that the panels were extremely impressed by the
planning, the materials, the presentations, and the performance of the
NRAO staff.
They were especially impressed with both the level of detail that has
gone into the planning--"years ahead" of other projects they knew at
comparable points in their lifecycles--and the teamwork displayed. They
could not believe that the NRAO staff members involved with ALMA
operations had been working together for barely a year. The NSF review
also conveyed their impression that NRAO appeared clearly ahead of the
other partners in operations planning. They and NSF also heard a clear
and strong message that ALMA is NRAO's top priority, and that the One
Observatory approach provides a suite of forefront facilities from meter
to submillimeter wavelengths to the astronomical community.
There are obviously some concerns, including the planned steep ramp-up
in hiring, and the adequacy of the resources both for user support and
for future maintenance and development, but both of these just argue for
more resources. Overall, the panel appeared overwhelmingly supportive
of our work.
We thank everyone who worked so hard to make this review a success, and
all who are continuing to make NRAO the world's forefront radio
astronomy observatory.
The entire Observatory should be proud.
Fred Lo and Ethan Schreier
--
ChrisCarilli - 06 March 2007