Draft face-to-face agenda April 3, 2007
ASAC Meeting, 2007-May-7-8, Tokyo
INFORMATION
ON ACCOMMODATION and TRAVEL
The Committee
CHARGE
from the ALMA Board
Discussion Wiki
Arrive early? visit Kanda Myojin Shrine. Left out the hotel door, just past the 7-11 on the left.Walking tour
6 May 2007
Meet for dinner lobby of Garden Palace if interested 6:30-7:00 pm.
7 May 2007
Map of relative locations of Station and Hotel
8:10 am Hotel pickup
8:45 am Organization and IPT liaisons (Closed session) (Mundy, Cernicharo)9:00 am 1. Project status reports
On 2007 April 27 at 3:15 pm the crane hangers were removed and the first ALMA Production antenna pedestal assembly thrust skyward, bolted to its foundation outside of the Vertex hangar at the OSF.9:00 am Director's Report: Tarenghi
9:30 am 1a. Project Manager Report: Wootten
9:50 am 1b. Project Manager-EA Report: Hasegawa, Ohashi, Ho
10:20 am Discussion
10:30 am Break
10:45 am 2. Charge 1. Review and summarize the science in the version 2 of the DRSP. We are particularly interested in the qualitative changes from Version 1 of the DRSP and implications, if any, for the construction and operation of ALMA. In conjunction with this, review the status of the correlator capabilities and recommend which of its numerous modes should be implemented first. (Hogerheijde)
11:30 am Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
13:30 pm 3. Charge 2. Within the context of operational planning, review the status and capability of the Atacama Compact Array both as a set of special purpose sub arrays and as an element of the full ALMA.
14:50 pm Discussion
15:30 pm Break
16:00 pm 4. Charge 4 (new) ALMA EPO Plan Review (Tarenghi, Adams)
16:45 pm Discussion
17:30 pm 5.Science and Operations Review(Wootten, Morita; Project Scientists)
- JP ARC Status(Morita)
- NA ARC Status(Wootten)
- EU ARC Status(?)
Discussion
18:00 pm Break for Dinner
8 May 2007
08:45 am Closed Session (if needed)
9:00 am 6. Charge 3 Review the current status of molecular line databases and their readiness for ALMA science. The review should evaluate existing plans for the next five years in light of ALMA's needs at full operation and in coordination with other major projects with similar needs, in particular Herschel and SOFIA. (Cernicharo)
10:30 am Break
10:45 am
- JSAC Meeting Report (Yamamoto)
- ANASAC (Mundy)
- ESAC Meeting Report (?)
- ALMA science meeting(2006) (Cernicharo)
12:30 pm Lunch
13:30 pm 6. Drafting of report (Closed Session)
15:00 pm Presentation of Findings (All)
15:30 pm Adjourn, visit Mitaka labs of NAOJ; Departure from the University of Tokyo (by bus) 16:30 - 18:00: Laboratory Tour at NAOJ
18:00 - 20:00: Dinner at a Japanese restaurant
21:00: Arrival at Tokyo Garden Palace (by bus)
Travel to the University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus)
-- AlWootten - 30 Apr 2007