Contact Information Agenda/Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 8 March at 4:00 pm EST.

Date: 8 March 2005

Time: 4:00 pm EST ( 2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)

Phone: Phone: (434)296-7082 (CV SoundStation? Premier Conference phone 3rd floor). No Video planned.

Past minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page

Topics

News The Y+ Configuration design by Mark has been approved by the CCB. We now have a complete configuration for a 64 element ALMA for a month.

LOs. There will be four subarrays (by frequency) on ALMA and two on the ACA. Recently a block diagram was received by Brundage from Japan in which were shown two new frequency subarrays attached to all 80 antennas. This is not what was envisioned.

Workshops for the NAASC. Proposal from Weedman.

New personnel: Postdoc being sought.

Antenna news -- ATF.

Science IPT Rebaselining: Revision of Aug 2002 Budget

Rebaselining Options, ASAC Charges, and the ASAC Meeting 24-25 Feb

Baseline Ripple and quantization noise

Wootten is working on action item to develop a spec for this. Does he ever do any actual work?

Science Corner:

From the SMA Calendar: The extraordinarily good weather, at least on some nights, continued last week. On a night when the 225 GHz opacity was 0.03 (MAR 1), the 183 GHz water maser line was observed toward the active galactic nucleus in NGC3079 and tentatively detected (zenith opacity of about 0.8). The continuum emission in the upper sideband at 193 GHz (zenith opacity of about 0.05) was clearly detected (see Test Log Entry 8949; and rumors).

Calendar

Events of Interest

(see also Al's ALMA Biweekly Calendar)

2005
 
 
 
 
 
Day Date Time (EST) Event location details
Monday
Feb28
for 2 weeks
Start of ALMA aips++ pre-test
NAASC testers: Fomalont, Hibbard
Tuesday
March 8
4-5pm
NA Science IPT telecon (open to all interested parties)
(434) 296-7082
Wednesday
March 9
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Software Science Req. Group Telecon
 
 
Wednesday
March 9
15:00 A\PM-16:00 PM
NAWG
CV311 dial SOC317
 
Thu-Fri
Mar 10-11
all day
George Helou visit
 
 
Wednesday
Mar
3-4pm
NAUG Videocon
CV-ER311
 
 
March 19-23
all day
2005 IEEE ICASSP
Philadelphia
Monday
March 21
6pm
2005 IEEE ICASSP Radio Astronomy Session
Philadelphia
Tues-Thurs
March 22-24
all day
JAO/IPT Meeting
Garching
 
Tuesday
March 29
all day
CVR review
Charlottesville
 
Thu-Fri
Mar 31 - Apr 1
all day
Tom Wilson Visit
Charlottesville
 
Monday
April 04
all day
Executive meeting
Pasadena, CA
 
Tue-Wed
April 5-6
all day
AMAC Face-to-face meeting
Pasadena, CA.
 
Wednesday
April 06
2-3pm
NAASC Organizational Meeting
CV-ER311
NAASCMtgAgenda (434 296-7082)
Thu-Fri
April 7-8
all day
ALMA Board Face-to-face meeting
Pasadena, CA.
 
Sat
April 9
morning
Bilateral meeting
Pasadena, CA.
 
Friday
April 29
2-3pm
ANASAC Telecon
877-874-1919 PC=185064
Wednesday
May 04
all day
WVR PDR
Gothenburg, Sweden
 
Wednesday
May 06
2-3pm
NAASC Organizational Meeting
CV-ER311
NAASCMtgAgenda (434 296-7082)
Friday
June 24
2-3pm
ANASAC Telecon
877-874-1919 PC=185064
Friday
August 26
2-3pm
ANASAC Telecon
877-874-1919 PC=185064
Friday
October 28
2-3pm
ANASAC Telecon
877-874-1919 PC=185064

Upcoming Meetings

Dusty and Molecular Universe 27-29 October 2004, Paris Presentations Online

2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing March 19-23 2005, Philadelphia See

Radio Astronomy Session; ALMA Article for ICASSP. Comments? Reviews welcomed.

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

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).

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

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

ALMA November 13-16; Madrid, Spain

See also NAASC listing

See also NAASC wiki

-- AlWootten - 07 Mar 2005
Topic revision: r5 - 2005-03-09, AlWootten
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