Contact Information

• 2006-July-5 15:00 UT
• Duration: 1 hr
• USA Toll Free Number: 877-874-1919
• Toll Number: +1-203-320-9891
• Passcode: 185064
• Leader: Al Wootten

Old Business

1. Agenda, Minutes: Agenda of June meeting.

Agenda and Minutes of older telecons may be viewed at the ALMA EDM site Sitescape or more recently at the Board ASAC site.

New Business

15 June view of the AOS TB Shell and the antennas of the site testing interferometer. The AOS TB Shell is in place. The interior work has commenced and continues through the current austral winter. At the OSF, antenna foundations are under construction at the Vertex and Melco laydown areas. The ALMA Board approved the OSF contract; construction should begin soon on the OSF building.

The first ALMA antenna foundation: concrete is poured for pad # 5 in the Vertex Antenna Erection Facility Site, near the future OSF site.

1. Project news/updates
   • Operations, funding, Board meeting news (Tarenghi)
   • Construction progress (Beasley)
   • ALMA Safety Requirements
2. Board Communications
   • New Charges. The Board, in Kyoto, approved the revised charge for the next ASAC meeting as follows:
     • The ASAC is requested to consider the following topics, and to make recommendations to the Board that include your priority or time scale where your recommendations require expenditure of ALMA's fixed resources:
       • 1. Review the revised Commissioning and Science Verification Plan for ALMA
       • 2. Review the revised Calibration Plan for ALMA
       • 3. Review the existing work on developing complete descriptions of the ALMA observing modes (e.g. software, hardware etc.) and make recommendations as to their relative priority
       • 4. Any other matters that you want to bring to the Board's attention.
   • Commissioning and Science Verification Meeting. PE's Notes and Action Items
     • Presentations
   • Face to face meeting place and time (r1.44).
     • The Board has approved a meeting in Florence 16-17 September.
   • Dates of Board Meetings 2006
3. Science IPT Report (Wilson, Wootten, Kawabe)
   • System Technical Requirements now in final comments on ALMA EDM.
   • Science IPT Current schedule
   • ALMA Science IPT wiki page
   • Science Requirements Document is in yet another final review; the Board would like ASAC approval.
4. Outreach
   • Astronomer Outreach: ALMA Video Podcast; NRAO Newsletter ESO Newsletter. NRAO ALMA Calendar
   • ALMA at the IAU sessions of special interest.
   • ESAC Report (Testi)
   • ANASAC Report (Carilli)
   • JSAC Report (Yamamoto)
   • Madrid Meeting -- (Cernicharo)
5. AOB
6. Next Meeting 2006-July-5 15:00 UT suggested.

Science Corner:

Calendar

Official JAO Calendar

Events of Interest

(see also Al's ALMA Biweekly Calendar)

2005
Day	Date	Time (EST)	Event	location	details
We	Jun 28	1430UT	ALMA Sci IPT Telecon	Telecon
Fr	Jun 30	2100UT	ANASAC Telecon	Telecon
We	Jul 5	1430UT	ASAC Telecon	Telecon
We	Jul 12	1500UT	SSR Telecon	Postponed
We	Jul 26	1430UT	ALMA Sci IPT Telecon	Telecon
We	Aug 2	1430UT	ASAC Telecon	Telecon
TH	Aug 3	UT	ALMA Board Telecon	Telecon
Sa Su	Sept 16-17	All day	ASAC F2F	Florence
Fri-Sun	Sep 27-29	All Day	Pre-Production Design Review for the Vertex ALMA Antenna	Essen, Germany
Thurs-Fri	9-10 November 2006	all day	ALMA Board Meeting	Madrid	TBD

Upcoming Meetings

Complex Molecules in Space: present status and prospects with ALMA May 8 to 11, 2006, Fuglsoecentret, near Aarhus, Denmark

61st OSU International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, June 19-23, 2006, Columbus Ohio USA

The fate of gas in galaxies July 12-14, 2006 ASTRON, Dwingeloo,

IAU XXVI General Assembly Prague, 14-25 August 2006 *Sessions of Particular ALMA Interest*

• "The ALMA Era for Astrophysics Begins" Aug. 24, 2006 Start time (9:30) End time (12:00) Dressing Room 225
• Astronomical Facilities of the Next Decade Prague 16-17 August
• IAU SYMPOSIUM No. 235: EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES ACROSS THE HUBBLE TIME Prague 14 - 17 August 2006
• IAU SYMPOSIUM No. 237: TRIGGERED STAR FORMATION IN A TURBULENT ISM Prague 14 - 18 August 2006
• The Universe at z>6 Prague 17-18 August
• Division X meetings. On Observatories: 1600 on 18 August
• New Cosmology Results from Spitzer Prague 22 - 23 August
• There will be an ALMA booth near ESO and NRAO displays.

A Summer School on "(Sub)Millimetre Observing Techniques" Victoria, BC, Canada 14-17 August 2006

Fifth IRAM Millimeter Interferometry School October 2-6, 2006 Grenoble, France

Workshop on Measurement of Atmospheric Water Vapour: Theory, Techniques, Astronomical and Geodetic Applications October 9-11, 2006; Wettzell / Hoellenstein (Germany)

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

Astrophysical Masers and their Environments 2007 March 12-16, Alice Springs, Australia

50th anniversary of the founding of NRAO June17-21; Charlottesville, Virginia

See also NAASC listing

-- AlWootten - 28 Jun 2006