ALMA ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Telecon Phone Meeting 2005-April-29

Contact Information

  • Call date: 2005-4-29 18:00 UT (Friday)
  • Call time 14:00 EDT or 18:00 UT
  • Duration: 1 hr
  • USA Number: 877-874-1919
  • Outside USA Number: +1 203-320-9891
  • Passcode: 185064
  • Leader: Al Wootten

Old Business --

Agenda of 17 March 2005 meeting. Minutes.

New Business -- Agenda

ALMA Project News (van den Bout)

  1. IPT meetings, CVR Review, Rebaselining Options, Operations Plan Vers A, New Band 5 Receivers/OTF Interferometry and the Board Meetings 4-9 April 2005 (Wootten)
  2. Astronomer Outreach: ALMA Brochure for AAS NRAO Newsletter ESO Newsletter. NRAO ALMA Calendar
  3. ALMA Science IPT wiki page.
  4. PS job description

ASAC (Turner) --

  1. The Board on Physics and Astronomy of the US NRC Report on ALMA. (Turner, van Dishoeck)
  2. Response to charges from the ALMA Board -- ASAC Report

Face-to-face meeting-- (Yun)

  • Meet Sunday 2005 June 12 before Workshop on submillimeter wavelength astronomy. 1 pm at 160 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Charge: Were ALMA rebaselining to result in a number of antennas from 36 to 56,
    • What would be the impact on the attainability of the level 1 science requirements?
    • What would be the loss os speed, image quality, mosaicing ability, and point-source sensitivity?
    • Would ALMA be sufficiently transformational to warrant continued support by the United States?
    • Is there a particular threshhold in antenna number, below which ALMA would suffer a sufficient degradation in its performance in the above or in other relevant scientific areas sufficiently serious to warrant attention?
  • Selection of new ANASAC Chairperson
  • Meeting on Z-Machines in Charlottesville -- discussion (Baker)

Any Other Matters Arising

Science Corner:

ANASAC Membership beginning March 2005:

  • Andrew Blain (ASAC Member) (2007)
  • Chris Carilli (ASAC Member) (2006)
  • Dick Crutcher (2006)
  • Jason Glenn (2006)
  • Xiaohui Fan (2007)
  • Christine Wilson (ASAC Member) (2007)
  • Lee Mundy (ASAC Member) (2007)
  • Jean Turner (ASAC Chair) (2007)
  • Min Yun (ANASAC Chair) (2006)
  • Doug Johnstone (2007)
  • Mark Gurwell (2006)
  • Joan Najita (2006)
  • Paul Ho (2008)
  • Crystal Brogan (2008)
  • Andrew Baker (2008)
  • John Bally (2008)
  • Mel Wright (2008)
  • Jonathan Williams (2008)

Date of next phone meeting According to our current schedule the next one should be on: 2005-6-24 18:00 UT (Friday)

Calendar

Events of Interest

(see also Al's ALMA Biweekly Calendar)

2005
 
 
 
 
 
Day Date Time (EST) Event location details
Monday
April 04
all day
Executive meeting
Pasadena, CA
 
Tue-Wed
April 5-6
all day
AMAC Face-to-face meeting
Pasadena, CA.
 
Thu-Fri
April 7-8
all day
ALMA Board Face-to-face meeting
Pasadena, CA.
 
Sat
April 9
morning
Bilateral meeting
Pasadena, CA.
 
Wednesday
April 13
15:00UT
SSR Telecon
 
 
Wednesday
April 13
3-4pm
NAWG Videocon
CV-ER311
 
Thursday
April 14
15:00UT
Calibration Group Telecon
 
 
Tuesday
April 19
14:00UT
Science IPT Videocon
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891
Tuesday
April 19
15:00UT
ASAC Telecon
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891
 
Tues
April 26
1500UT
ALMA Board telecon
Telephone
Change 3/9/05
Friday
April 29
2-3pm
ANASAC Telecon
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891
 
Tuesday
May 3
14:30UT
ASAC Telecon
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891
 
Wednesday
May 04-5
all day
WVR PDR
Gothenburg, Sweden
 
Tuesday
May 17
14:30UT
Science IPT Videocon
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891
 
Thurs
May 26
1500UT
ALMA Board telecon
Telephone
 
Mon-Thurs
May 29-Jun 2
all day
AAS Minneapolis
ALMA booth part of NRAO booth
 
Tues-Weds
June 21-22
1500UT
ALMA Board Meeting
The Hague, Netherlands
 
Friday
June 24
2-3pm
ANASAC Telecon
 
 
Thurs
Aug 4
1500UT
ALMA Board telecon
Telephone
 
Friday
August 26
2-3pm
ANASAC Telecon
 
 
Thurs
Sep 22
1500UT
ALMA Board telecon
Telephone
 
Friday
October 28
2-3pm
ANASAC Telecon
 
 
Tues-Weds
Nov 1-2
1500UT
ALMA Board Meeting
Chile
 
Thurs
Dec 8
1500UT
ALMA Board telecon
Telephone
 

Upcoming Meetings

The SZ Effect and ALMA 7-8 April 2005, Orsay (Paris area), France

Understanding the Universe through IR and Submillimeter Astrophysics May 2-3, 2005 The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

IAU Symposium 227 Massive Star Birth: A Crossroads of Astrophysics May 16-20 2005, Acireale, Italy

Astrobiology and the Origins of Life Hamilton, Ontario, Canada May 24-28.

Workshop on submillimeter wavelength astronomy in Cambridge (JUN 13-16).

Star Formation in the Era of Three Great Observatories July 13-15, 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Astrochemistry throughout the Universe: Recent Successes and Current Challenges 2005 August 29 - September 2; Asilomar, California

Protostars and Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii

Mm/submm Techniques and Science session, at the URSI General Assembly 2005 October 23-29, New Delhi, India

50th anniversary of the founding of NRAO October 15-19, 2006; Charlottesville, Virginia

ALMA November 13-16; Madrid, Spain

See also NAASC listing

-- AlWootten - 31 Mar 2005
Topic revision: r5 - 2005-04-29, JohnHibbard
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