ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee F2F 2012

Contents - DRAFT

Duration and Info

• Fall 2012 ANASAC Meeting, Charlottesville, VA
• 2012-09-20 08:30 - 17:00 EDT
• 2012-09-21 08:30 - 17:00 EDT
• Duration: 2 Days

Location

NRAO - Stone Hall Building, 520 Edgemont Road, Room 230, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Logistics

Contact

• People dialing in can use this number for a toll-free audio-only connection: 877-803-9367

• Videoconferencing: CV-ER230-hub 192.33.117.12##6516 (Please contact Lyndele at lvonschi at nrao.edu if you'd like to test the connection beforehand)
• If you run into problems with the connection at the time of meeting, please send an email to helpdesk-cv at nrao.edu
• Leader: Al Wootten; Carol Lonsdale

For additional information contact: Lyndele von Schill

Agenda

1. Items pertaining to ANASAC Charges are in Blue; items pertaining to ASAC charges in Green; items of relevance to both are in Black.

Wednesday

18:00 Meet and Greet: Light refreshments in "Breakfast Room" off the Lobby of the Cavalier Inn

Thursday

08.30 – 09.00 Light breakfast snacks

09.00 – 09.15 Welcome & charges – Tony Beasley

• REQUIRED READING:
  • ASAC Charges October 2012: ASAC Charges for Report to Nov 2012 ALMA Board meeting

09.15 – 09.45 * ALMA Construction Status Mark McKinnon

• McKinnon Construction Presentation: ANASAC_ALMA_Const_20SEP12.pdf

09.45 – 10.15 * Science Overview and Discussion - A. Wootten

• RELEVANT CHARGE:
  • *ASAC Charge 1: Report on science results so far and lay the groundwork for future quantitative analysis. Highlight some outstanding science results from SV or Cycle 0 and put them in context of the fields they apply to. Assess what quantitative metrics will be available for assessing scientific impact by finding out what statistics are collected by the various Executives. Comment on whether the intersection of those sets provides sufficient information for the ASAC to evaluate quantitative measures of scientific outcomes from ALMA.

• Science-Wootten: Science_ANASAC2012.pdf
• SUGGESTED READING:
  • Published ALMA results
  • SPIE paper on ALMA Correlator: ProcSPIE_Baudry_8452-43_A4_v3.2.pdf
  • Paper on ACA Correlator: ACA_Correlator_1111.2770v1.pdf

10.30 – 10.45 Break

10.45 – 11.30 Science Demonstration - Wootten, Peck

• RELEVANT CHARGE:
  • *ASAC Charge 2: Review the goals of Science Demonstration as part of, or as a complement to, Science Verification. Should the current goal of Science Demonstration (Getting cutting-edge ALMA data out to the public) be modified, modulated, or limited now that proposals with proprietary time are being executed and the archive is about to open? How should targets for SV be chosen, announced, and publicized? If the goal is to get some ALMA data out to the public, have SV projects covered the proper spectrum of science areas?
• SV Discussion: Wootten_ANASAC2012.pdf
• SUGGESTED READING:
  • Science Verification Papers: SV_Papers-Sept2012.pdf
  • SV Twiki page: ScienceVerificationProjects2012__ScienceVerification__TWiki.pdf

11.30 – 12.00 – NAASC Status - Al Wootten/C. Lonsdale

• Lonsdale talk: anasac_20sept12_status_final.pdf

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch.

12.45: Meet the NAASC

13.00 - 13.30 Panel discussion session with NAASC

13.30 – 14.00 Maximizing science benefits for ALMA scientists - Peck

• RELEVANT CHARGE:
  • *ASAC Charge 3: How can we help those making ALMA work (JAO staff, postdocs, fellows, etc.) get some benefit for their own science?

14.00 – 14.30 Community Outreach

• RELEVANT CHARGE:
  • ANASAC Standing Charge: To lead community outreach through leadership of workshops.
• Outreach to General Public - J. Stoke
• Astronomy Outreach - C. Lonsdale/A. Wootten
  • Meetings
    • See Google Calendar
    • "Molecular Spectroscopy in the Era of Far-IR Astronomy Workshop" Oct 28-31 2012, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Pan-Executive ALMA "First results" workshop in Chile: 12-15 Dec 2012. SOC, LOC organized and working.Working group: L. Testi, A. Wootten, M. Saito.
    • AAS221 Long Beach, Ca: SS22. Cosmic Dawns: ALMA Early Science Commences 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM; Room 101A (Long Beach Convention Center)
    • Joint NAASC/Taiwan workshop "Transformational Science with ALMA: From Dust to Rocks to Planets"Kona, Hawaii, April 8-12 2013;
    • Next NAASC Workshop subject and timing?

14.30 – 15.00 Committee feedback session (Carpenter) confidential pdf in edm.alma.cl

15.00 – 15.15 Break

15.15 – 16.00 – ALMA Science Operations - John Hibbard

• Sci Ops - Hibbard: anasac_20sept12_sciops.pdf see confidential pdf in edm.alma.cl
• Cycle 0 progress: ALMA Operations Status update, for posting to Science Portal Oct 1, 2012
• NA data reduction status
• Cycle 1 proposal statistics see confidential pdf in edm.alma.cl

16.00 – 17.00 NRAO/UVa Colloquium Speaker Jeyhan Kartaltepe, NOAO TBD

18.30 Dinner at local restaurant

Friday

08.30 – 09.00 Light breakfast snacks

09.00 – 10;30 ALMA Development Program –

09.00 – 09:30 Current North American Plan - Randolph

• North American Proposals for Development Upgrade Studies for ALMA: ANASAC_Presentation_21Sep12,_ALMA_Dev,_Rev_2.pdf

09.30 – 10:00 Progress on Studies - Bryerton, Carpenter (for Woody), Looney, Goodman, Doeleman

• Current CDL Development: ANASAC-_Current_CDL_ALMA_Development.pdf
• Rosolowsky/Goodman/Adams Study: ANASAC_Rosolow.pdf
• ALMA Phasing Project: anasac_alma_phasing.pdf

10.00 – 10:30 Future Projects - Bryerton, McKinnon, Discussion

• Proposed Development Funding U. Va.: ANASAC-_Proposed_ALMA_Development_-_SIS.pdf
• Eu Development timeline from Testi presentation to SKA WG: LTesti_ALMADevelopment_Science_SKA_SWG_Jul2012.pdf
• RELEVANT CHARGE:
  • ANASAC Charge: "In March 2010, the ASAC with input from the regional SACs put forward a comparison matrix of items which might be included in an ALMA development plan. Some of these projects are under way, studies have commenced for others. The ANASAC is requested to revisit this comparison considering the current science drivers and development projects."
• REQUIRED READING:
  • ALMA NA Development Studies
  • ALMA Development Matrix 2010:
    
    • Color Coding: Orange: NA Development study targeting this received Green, Blue: EA, EU (may be out of date)
  • NRAO Development Studies CfP Documents wiki
  • North American Proposals for Development Upgrade Studies for ALMA: ALMA_Development_RankedSummaryANASAC.pdf

010.30 – 11:00 CASA advances, Brogan; Discussion

• CASA_anasac12.pdf

11.00 – 11.15 Break

11:15 – 12.15 Discussion

12.15 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 16.00 ANASAC executive session / question session; preliminary report

Attendees

ANASAC Members

• Ted Bergin
• Alberto Bolatto
• Daniela Calzetti
• John Carpenter
• Richard Crutcher
• Shep Doeleman (video)
• Alyssa Goodman (unable to attend)
• Kelsey Johnson (unable to attend)
• Ciska Kemper
• Leslie Looney
• Dan Marrone (unable to attend)
• Mike Mumma
• David Neufeld (unable to attend)
• Karin Oberg
• Rachel Osten
• Deborah Padgett
• Dick Plambeck
• Douglas Scott (unable to attend)
• Jonathon Williams
• David Wilner

NRAO/NAASC

• Tony Beasley
• Eric Bryerton
• Doug Johnstone
• Carol Lonsdale
• Mark McKinnon
• Bill Randolph
• Al Wootten

NSF

• Phil Puxley
• Dana Lehr

Topics

1. Old Business The enhanced Agenda from last meeting is available. minutes from the 27Aug2010 telecon are not yet available.

-- AlWootten - 2012-08-30

-- AlWootten - 2012-09-12

• ASAC Charges October 2012: ASAC_charges_draft_v2_October2012

• ALMA Development Matrix 2010:
  

• SPIE paper on ALMA Correlator: ProcSPIE_Baudry_8452-43_A4_v3.2.pdf

• Paper on ACA Correlator: ACA_Correlator_1111.2770v1.pdf

• SV Discussion: Wootten_ANASAC2012.pdf

• Update to Hibbard Science Operations Presentation: anasac_20sept12_sciops_update.pdf