ALMA ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Telecon Phone Meeting 2006-January 6

Contact Information

  • Call date: 2006-01-06 19:00 UT (Friday)
  • Call time 14:00 EST or 1900 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 18 October 2005 meeting. Minutes are included in the Agenda.

New Business -- Agenda

ALMA Project News (van den Bout)

ALMA AOS Technical Building
  1. AAS ALMA Town Meeting.
  • Summary of 2005/2006 meetings
  • Town Meeting: Monday Jan 9 2006, 12:30-1:30 ET (but nothing in room until 2:30)
    • Welcome: K.Y. Lo (5min)
    • ALMA Project Status: Ade Russell (10min)
      • lots of pictures of construction
    • ALMA Science Goals: Chris Carilli (10min)
    • NAASC: Crystal Brogan (10min)
    • Discussion: K.Y. Lo Moderator
      • Have list of issues under discussion: TAC; early science; user grants
    • Denouement: Face-to-face (or lunch?) with ANASAC members? Seven are registered: Andrew Baker (U. Md.) (2008), Andrew Blain (Caltech) (2007), Crystal Brogan (U. Hawaii) (2008), Mark Gurwell (CfA, Harvard) (2006), Joan Najita (NOAO) (2006), Jonathan Williams (U. Hawaii) (2008), Min Yun (U. Mass) (2006)
    • New NRAO ALMA Brochure (pdf)
  1. Rebaselining, Cost Review, Antenna procurement and the Board Meetings November 2005 (Wootten)
  2. Construction Progress (Wootten)
  3. Meeting on Z-Machines in Charlottesville -- Next week! (Baker)
  4. Member rotation 2006 (vanden Bout)
    • Terms expiring in February, 2009
      • Chris Carilli NRAO X-Gal/high-z Member of ASAC
      • Richard Crutcher U. Illinois Polarization current Chair
      • Jason Glenn U. Colorado Inst/X-Gal
      • Mark Gurwell CfA Planetary
      • Joan Najita NOAO Optical/Stars
      • Min Yun U. Mass X-Gal
  5. ALMA Science Meeting in Madrid (Wilson)
  6. Astronomer Outreach: NRAO Newsletter ESO Newsletter. NRAO ALMA Calendar ALMA Brochure for AAS (2005)
  7. ALMA Science IPT wiki page.

ASAC (Wilson) --

  1. ASAC Telecons--Agendas and Minutes
  2. Response to charges from the ALMA Board -- * Board Response to Oct Report * New charges

Any Other Matters Arising

Science Corner:

Calendar

Official JAO Calendar New!!

Events of Interest

(see also Al's ALMA Biweekly Calendar)

2005
 
 
 
 
 
Day Date Time (EST) Event location details
Thurs
Dec 8
1500UT
ALMA Board telecon
Telephone
 
Weds
Dec 14
2100 UT
ASAC telecon
Telephone
 
Thurs
Dec 22
1500UT
ALMA Board telecon
Telephone
 
Weds
Jan 4 2006
2100 UT
ASAC telecon
Telephone
 
Fri
Jan 6
1800UT
ANASAC Telecon
Telephone
 
Thurs
Jan 26 2006
1500UT
ALMA Board telecon
Telephone
 
Weds-Fri
22-24 March
all day
ALMA Board Meeting
Japan
TBD
Tues-Weds
13-14 June 2006
all day
ALMA Board Meeting
Santiago
TBD
Thurs-Fri
9-10 November 2006
all day
ALMA Board Meeting
Madrid
TBD

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: 2006-2-24 18:00 UT (Friday)

Upcoming Meetings

Physique stellaire avec ALMA November 14/15, 2005, GRAAL - Montpellier.

Latin American IAU Regional Meeting 12-16 December, Pucon, Chile

National Radio Science Meeting 4-7 January, Boulder, Colorado

ALMA Town Meeting, AAS 9 Jan Washington, D. C.

From ZMachines to ALMA 13-14 January, Charlottesville, VA

Complex Molecules in Space: present status and prospects with ALMA May 7 to 11, 2006, Fuglsoecentret, near Aarhus, Denmark

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

Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) November 13-16; Madrid, Spain

See also NAASC listing

-- AlWootten - 05 Dec 2005
Topic revision: r7 - 2006-03-17, JohnHibbard
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