Face-to-face agenda Feb 1, 2008
ASAC Meeting, 2008-Feb-1-2, Santiago
The Committee
CHARGE
from the ALMA Board
Discussion Wiki
29 January 2008
30 January 2008
31 January 2008
1 February 2008
Cordillera Meeting Room Atton Hotel
8:30 am
8:30 am Organization (Closed session) (Cernicharo, Blain, Kohno)9:00 am 1. JAO Management Reports (Murowinski, Hills)
9:30 am Project Scientist's Reports (Wootten, Testi, Morita)
10:00 am Discussion
10:30 am Break
10:45 am 2. Charge 2. Review the Calibration Plan and scientific aspects of the plans for Assembly, Integration, Verification testing and for Commissioning. Being mindful of the finite resources (human, financial) available, are changes necessary or desirable for scientific reasons to the plans being implemented?
11:30 am Discussion
13:00 pm Lunch
13:45 pm 3. Charge 3. The ALMA Board has charged the project to develop a long term ALMA Development Plan in consultation with the international astronomy community. The plan should set out the scientific context for transformational science with ALMA in 2020, in the era of for example JWST, ELTs and SKA, and the developments necessary to achieve this vision. The ALMA Board views this plan as having the utmost strategic priority, and is coordinating its development across the entire ALMA partnership. The process of generating the ALMA Development Plan should be led by the JAO Project Scientist and the ASAC (with support from the Executives). The first stage (to be completed by the end of 2008) will involve an examination of the scientific drivers by a number of specialist sub-groups, representative of the wider astronomical community, covering the whole field. In time for the Board's April 2008 meeting, the ASAC should identify the scientific themes on which sub-groups will work (for example: star formation, galaxy formation etc) and appoint appropriate Chairs for each subgroup.
14:50 pm Discussion
16:00 pm Break
16:15 pm 4. Sundry items of Science Concern (CREs, etc.)
16:45 pm Discussion
17:30 pm 5.Science and Operations Review(Wootten, Testi Morita; Project Scientists)
- JP IPT and ARC Status(Morita)
- NA IPT and ARC Status(Wootten)
- EU IPT and ARC Status(Testi)
Discussion
18:00 pm Close
20:00 pm Dinner together
2 February 2008
08:45 am Closed Session (if needed)
9:00 am 6. Charge 1. Assess the preparation of the ALMA real time, observing, and off-line software for early science. In particular, review the impact of the recommendations of the May 2007 software review and the schedule for the next two years.
10:30 am Break
10:45 am
- EASAC Meeting Report (Kohno)
- ANASAC (Blain)
- ESAC Meeting Report (Afonso)
- General Discussion
13:00 pm Lunch
13:45 pm 6. Drafting of report (Closed Session)
16:00 pm Presentation of Findings (All)
17:30 pm Adjourn
1) Attendees expected