ACTION: provide revised ALMA EPO plan/staff ramp-up for NAASC EPO effort consistent with planned funding level
WHO: M.Adams/J. Stoke
DUE: Dec 15 -> Sep 15
DONE:
NOTES: reassigned to J. Stoke
ACTION: Write revised NAASC proposal: budget methodology; changes from Washington review
WHO: Hibbard
DUE: Jan-30
DONE: New budget done 11/13. Need text.
ACTION: Send some suggested turno schedules to JHibbard
WHO: Brogan, Hunter, Indebetouw, Liszt, Remijan
DUE: September
DONE:
NOTES: No longer necessary
ACTION: Ask JAO/CSV if more than 8 days at OSF can be accommodated; minimal amount of time to be spent in SCO
WHO: Hibbard
DUE: September
DONE: 6/4/2008
NOTES: Yes, more days can be spent at OSF. No minimal time in SCO set.
ACTION: Get Canadian MOU moving.
WHO: Carilli
DUE:
DONE: 7/3/2008
NOTES: Ready for signatures
ACTION: Get ANASAC to finalize dates of f2f meeting; push to have it in Socorro before end of August so they can see the ATF.
WHO: Carilli
DUE:
DONE: 7/3/2008
NOTES: Will be Sept 12 in Charlottesville
ACTION: Review NAASC webpage you are responsible for (see assignments) prior to monthly NAASC Org. Meeting
WHO: Everyone
DUE: prior to meeting
DONE:
Action Items from this meeting:
ACTION: meet with James diF during Massive08 meeting to discuss CA contribution to NA ARC activities in FY09
WHO: Lonsdale, Hibbard
DUE: Sept 27
DONE:
NOTES:
ACTION: get ANASAC written material on NA ARC prior to f2f meeting
WHO: Hibbard
DUE: 9/5/2008
DONE:
NOTES: FY08 program report, FY09 program plan, FY09-FY13 LRS
ACTION: make sure Jennifer has all arrangements made for ANASAC f2f
WHO: Crystal
DUE: 9/3/2008
DONE:
NOTES:
Agenda
NAASC News (Carilli/Hibbard)
Carol Lonsdale has accepted the position of NAASC Head, replacing Chris Carilli effective October 1 2008.
J. Stoke & A. Evans are with us now
We have one offer out for the second CSV-liaison position. Other recent ALMA-wide job actions are detailed here.
Planning: 2008Q3 quarterly report, FY08 Progress Report, FY09 Program Plan, FY09-FY13 Long Range Plan
The Canadian MOU is ready for CA signatures.
Because of the election, it is likely that we will go into FY09 under a continuing resolution. This means that instead of the anticipated budget of $11.8M, we may be funded at the FY08 rate of $7.6M. Considering carryover from FY08 (due to slower ramp-up of Chilean Operations), we expect that we will be able to operate throughout the first three quarters of FY09 (i.e. Oct08-Jun09) with relatively little impact (main impact: delay archive set-up, delay some hirings, delay any tutorials, science workshops and face-to-face meetings). The real pain comes in the final quarter. Since we have not yet received a bottoms-up estimate from Chilean Operations for CY09 and it comprises 60% of the FY09 budget (90% of the CR budget), it is pre-mature to worry too much about this now. We expect a revised Chilean Ops budget by mid September.
ACTION: meet with James diF during Massive08 meeting to discuss CA contribution to NA ARC activities in FY09
WHO: Lonsdale, Hibbard
DUE:
DONE:
NOTES:
Project News (Wootten)
Status Report Nine ALMA antennas are now on-site in Chile: four antennas from Mitsubishi Electric Co. (Melco) and five antennas from VertexRSI. These antennas are undergoing acceptance testing, after which they will leave the contractor’s camp for further tests at the OSF TB, including radiometric tests using the first ALMA receiver suite. These receivers are contained within the ALMA Front End, the first of which was successfully tested at the OSF in June. Recent successful tests at the OSF featured a system that included ALMA elements from the Front End to the correlator and the software interconnecting these devices. The massive antennas are moved by one of the two ALMA transporters; these achieved Provisional Acceptance and has moved the second assembled Vertex RSI antenna from the capacious (but with four antennas under construction, full) Site Erection Facility Assembly Building to an outside pad for holographic surface measurements. Later, a Melco antenna will be moved to the 16,400-foot elevation Array Operations Site (AOS) for high-altitude tests. Work is being completed on pad number 93, close to the AOS technical building, so that these tests may be efficiently accommodated.
ASAC Matters.
Face-to-face meeting in Charlottesville after Massive Star Formation Workshop
New Charges will require some work
Band 10 (350 micron) receivers accepted by ALMA Board as NAOJ contribution.
Commissioning and Science Verification
Rainer Mauersberger and Robert Lucas will be starting work in Chile in the next few weeks.
NAOJ has appointed Dr. Tsuyoshi Sawada as ALMA Commissioning Scientist; he will probably arrive in Chile in October of this year.
Dr. Stuartt Corder has accepted a Jansky Postdoc; he will spend two years in Chile working with the Commissioning Team before moving to Charlottesville for the science portion of his appointment.
Plans being made for next f2f meeting (Sept 12 in CV).
Working on charge on "Community Support" & ALMA preparatory work, use of NA ALMA prototype antenna (see also email from Mirabel), next NAASC workshop, plus ASAC charges
ACTION: get ANASAC written material on NA ARC prior to f2f meeting
WHO: Hibbard
DUE: 9/5/2008
DONE:
NOTES: FY08 program report, FY09 program plan, FY09-FY13 LRS
ACTION: make sure Jennifer has all arrangements made for ANASAC f2f
WHO: Crystal
DUE: 9/3/2008
DONE:
NOTES:
Main Event: Candidate events:
Report from ObsTool testing (UT5)? Nothing really worth reporting. Not ready for broader demo yet.
Input to NRAO eNews? Crystal submitted article on CASA
CV-hosted summer school/tutorials? (suggested for next summer by Socorro)Save for after Carol gets here
Are we going the arclet route? Save for after Carol gets here
Computing effort with UMd
Chemistry effort with UVa
UVML
Interest from SMA
Interest from Herschel
Certainly there will be other comers. How do we proceed?
NA ALMA Development effort - needs to ramp-up starting FY2009.Save for after Carol gets here
Reports from Working Groups
Software Testing
Pipeline testing: Report of last test is in draft stage. See CIPT->pipeline wiki
New NRAO webpage is near beta release. Fred wants NAASC to pioneer science user outreach.
EPO (Adams)
We still need revised ALMA EPO plan/staff ramp-up
Newsletter is now electric, goes out 1/mo. Either contribute NAASC article quarterly (when we do quarterly report), or each month have a different functional assignment area generate an article. Lets discuss after Stoke joins us.
NAASC Workshops (Remy)
Massive Star Formation. SOC co-chairs=Remy & Andrew Baker.