ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Telecon
Phone Meeting 2005-April-29
- 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)
- 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)
- Astronomer Outreach: ALMA Brochure for AAS NRAO Newsletter ESO Newsletter. NRAO ALMA Calendar
- ALMA Science IPT wiki page.
- PS job description
ASAC (Turner) --
- The Board on Physics and Astronomy of the US NRC Report on ALMA. (Turner, van Dishoeck)
- 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 |
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Day |
Date |
Time (EST) |
Event |
location |
details |
Monday |
April 04 |
all day |
Executive meeting |
Pasadena, CA |
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Tue-Wed |
April 5-6 |
all day |
AMAC Face-to-face meeting |
Pasadena, CA. |
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Thu-Fri |
April 7-8 |
all day |
ALMA Board Face-to-face meeting |
Pasadena, CA. |
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Sat |
April 9 |
morning |
Bilateral meeting |
Pasadena, CA. |
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Wednesday |
April 13 |
15:00UT |
SSR Telecon |
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Wednesday |
April 13 |
3-4pm |
NAWG Videocon |
CV-ER311 |
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Thursday |
April 14 |
15:00UT |
Calibration Group Telecon |
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Tuesday |
April 19 |
14:00UT |
Science IPT Videocon |
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891 |
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Tuesday |
April 19 |
15:00UT |
ASAC Telecon |
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891 |
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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 |
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Tuesday |
May 3 |
14:30UT |
ASAC Telecon |
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891 |
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Wednesday |
May 04-5 |
all day |
WVR PDR |
Gothenburg, Sweden |
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Tuesday |
May 17 |
14:30UT |
Science IPT Videocon |
USA: 877-874-1919 World: +1-203-320-9891 |
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Thurs |
May 26 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board telecon |
Telephone |
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Mon-Thurs |
May 29-Jun 2 |
all day |
AAS Minneapolis |
ALMA booth part of NRAO booth |
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Tues-Weds |
June 21-22 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board Meeting |
The Hague, Netherlands |
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Friday |
June 24 |
2-3pm |
ANASAC Telecon |
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Thurs |
Aug 4 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board telecon |
Telephone |
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Friday |
August 26 |
2-3pm |
ANASAC Telecon |
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Thurs |
Sep 22 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board telecon |
Telephone |
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Friday |
October 28 |
2-3pm |
ANASAC Telecon |
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Tues-Weds |
Nov 1-2 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board Meeting |
Chile |
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Thurs |
Dec 8 |
1500UT |
ALMA Board telecon |
Telephone |
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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
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AlWootten - 31 Mar 2005