ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

Contact Information for those calling in.

* Call date: 2015-5-04 2:00 pm EDT or 18:00 UT (Monday (Tuesday in Taipei))
  • Duration: 1 hr
    * USA Number: 1-866-692-4538
  • Outside USA +1-517-466-2084
  • Passcode: 9480444#
  • Leaders: R. Osten, J. Carpenter, P. Jewell, A. Wootten
  • CV Room: 331


  • Attendees:

Topics

  1. Old Business
  2. New Business under Discussion.

Discussion Items

  • NAASC (Jewell)
    • New ANASAC chair (Rachel)
    • Observing Status
      • ES Observing resumed 31 March
      • With Dec-Jan observing efficiency, ALMA should observe most A+B projects in Cy2, except those for which configuration will no longer be available
        • Science Portal news item published with details.
  • ALMA Operations Review at JAO 28-30 April 2015
    • Review held 28-30 April 2015
    • Charges were (summarized):
      • Assess JAO and Regional Center performance wrt current operations plan (AOPvD)
      • Assess proposed operations & transition (to steady-state/full ops) plans
      • Assess detailed management & implementation plans as presented
    • Review committee chaired was by Jean-René Roy
    • 35 Documents prepared for the committee, it categories of
      • Upper Level Agreements and Principles
      • Transition Plan and Budget Overview
      • Management & Maintenance Plans
      • JAO (Departmental) Implementation Plans
      • Offsite Implementation Plans
      • ALMA Integrated Teams
      • Advisory Groups
    • The review was positive and constructive. Preliminary review recommendations will be summarized at the meeting.
  • Next face-to-face UC meeting 20-22 May Green Bank
    • 20 May is the AnasacF2f2015 meeting day prior to the general meeting
    • Note: Need confirmation of draft agenda & suggested presentations.
  • Positions Open
    • The JAO is seeking a NA Postdoc
  1. Program Scientist (Wootten)
    • NRAO eNews ALMA Update(proof)
      • Check out the new ALMA Status page (in Portal, listed under Observing for now).
    • Science review
      • 215 (196) refereed papers published so far, 145 (145) Cycle 0. 10 (10) from Cycle 1 [8 regular plus two DDT], 1 (1) from Cycle 2.. (parens are numbers last telecon)
      • Fourteen refereed papers published in Mar and Apr journals.
    • ASAC
    • ALMA Development Studies
      • FY 2014 Studies are closing out.
      • Projects approved by ALMA Board are in progress: Fiber AOS-SCO has had data tests, some integration remains. APP tests done with VLBA. B5 receivers begin arriving OSF Apr 2015.
      • Call for FY2015/16 Studies issued, See
        • Submit all questions concerning Call for Studies: : Recommend by 1 June 2015
        • Complete Proposals due by date: : Recommend 12 June 2015
        • Comments
        • Suggestions for referees please?
    • ANASAC, NAASC Meetings and Workshop
  2. Science Operations (Lonsdale)
    • ES hiatus Feb/Mar for annual software/hardware upgrades.
    • ALMA Status Report was posted to SP on Nov 12, and broadcast to NA community
      • Includes configuration schedule, observing statistics, remaining observing pressure as function of LST, config & Band, EOC summary
    • Cycle 3:
      • Five CDEs held; well received
      • About 1590 unique proposals submitted
      • 354 helpdesk tickets were handled
    • Cycle 1&2 Data Reduction update (April 30):
      • NA Projects
        • Cycle 1: 97 HP projects in total. 51 (53%) with some SBs finished, 51 (53%) with some data delivered; 30 (31%) completely delivered.
        • Cycle 2: 113 HP projects in total. 61 (54%) with some SBs finished, 54 (48%) with some data delivered; 20 (18%) completely delivered.
    • Support to JAO: A. Remijan (long term EOC support)
  3. Astronomer Outreach
  4. Date of next meeting
    • 20 May 2015
    • Proposed dates for 2015 telecons: 2 Jul, 3 Sep, 5 Nov. Comments please.
  5. Other Business

Science Corner

  1. Memos and papers of note
  2. Press Releases
  3. ALMA Papers (choose ALMA)

Events of Interest

2015
 
 
 
 
 
28-30 April 2015
 
Operations Review Meeting
JAO
June 2015
 
Cycle 3 panel meetings
 
July 2015
 
Cycle 3 results to PIs
 
Oct 1 2015
 
Start of Cycle 3 observing seasons
 

See also google calendars:
  1. ALMA Science Meetings
  2. ALMA Training Events

-- AlWootten - 2015-04-25
Topic revision: r4 - 2015-05-04, CarolLonsdale
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