ALMA

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

The AOS TB  Shell Done 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 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
  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
    • 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)
  4. Outreach
  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*

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
Topic revision: r4 - 2006-06-30, AlWootten
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