ALMA

Contact Information

  • 2006-August-9 15:30 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 OSF Foundation jig 27 July Antenna pad jig. Museum Opening

  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.
      • The Board has approved a meeting in Florence 16-17 September. Agenda
    • Dates of Board Meetings 2006
  3. Science IPT Report (Wilson, Wootten, Kawabe)
  4. Outreach
  5. AOB
  6. Next Meeting 2006-sEPT-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
TH
Aug 3
UT
ALMA Board Telecon
Telecon
 
We
Aug 9
1530UT
ASAC Telecon
Telecon
 
Tu
Sep 5
1430UT
ALMA Board Telecon
Telecon
 
We
Sep 6
all day
ESAC face-to-face
Garching
 
TH
Sept 14
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
 
Fr Sa
Sep29-30
All Day
ANASAC F2F
Charlottesville
 
M We
Oct 9-11
All Day
WVR Workshop
Wettzell
 
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 - 03 Aug 2006
Topic revision: r2 - 2006-08-08, AlWootten
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