BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO April 11, 2005 - April 25, 2005 ******************************** THIS FORTNIGHT********************************* A JAO phone directory has been issued and is available at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/JAOphone.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Antony Davies has been selected as NRAO ALMA Controller. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ALMA-JP Project Manager Tetsuo Hasegawa will visit the NTC during the 20 April - 22 April period. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E. Rudolf, G. H. Tan, C. Cunningham, S. Claude and others will be visiting NTC for Front End IPT talks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Report of the ALMA Science Advisory Committee to the Board is available: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/ASACReport-February2005.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- K. Long attending SysAdmin workshop, CV. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Past issues of this Calendar may be viewed at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html ******************************************************************************* General Happenings Santiago: Alejandra Araya has begun her duties as the Director's Personal Assistant, email aaraya@alma.cl, phone +56-2-467-6121. Ann Edmunds has begun her duties as Executive Assistant for ALMA Project Manager and Project Engineer, email aedmunds@alma.cl, phone +56-2-467-6141. OSF: Release of tender information for the construction of OSF Technical Facilities to bidders will occur April 2005. A contract for extension of the ALMA Camp to 30 beds has been signed with completion 2005-June-03. 26 persons are working on the site. AOS: The contract for AOS Technical Building Foundation work has been approved by NSF. Construction will begin August 2005. Tucson: Production nutator design specifications and requirements discussions are occurring. ATF: Joint Antenna Testing Group report finished and submitted. Computing IPT installing software, followed by antenna maintenance period. Martinez and Heinz visiting ATF. AOC: Pipeline heuristics regression test passed. Mosaicing and total power data combination aips++ tests begun. NTC: Beam pattern measurements for Cartridge No. 1 in the cartridge test system nearly complete. Testing in RAL cryostat No. 1 begins next week. SIS wafer No. 7 accepted. Central Variable Reference review was held. First two populated correlator racks now operate error-free in extended testing. TFB card review was held 14 April with representatives of ALMA-J and Altera. ******************************************************************************* DAILY CALENDAR (Times EDT ) Mon 11 April 9:30 AM-10:30 AM: NA Project Office Staff Meeting 10:30 AM-11:30 AM: JAO IPT Telecon 11:30 AM-12:30 PM: NA DH telecon Tue 12 4:00 PM-5:00 PM: NAScienceIPT teleconference (open to all interested parties) (434)296-7082 Agenda: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ Wed 13 11:00 AM: SSR Telecon Thu 14 9:30 AM-11:00 AM: Management IPT Teleconference 11:00 AM: Calibration Group Telecon Fri 15 Sat 16 Sun 17 Mon 18 9:30 AM-10:30 AM: NA Project Office Staff Meeting 10:30 AM-11:30 AM: JAO IPT Telecon 11:30 AM-12:30 PM: NA DH telecon Tue 19 10:00 AM-11:00 AM: ALMA Science IPT Telecon 11:00 AM-12:00 AM: ASAC Telecon Wed 20 Thu 21 9:30 AM-11:00 AM: Management IPT Teleconference 11:00AM: CCB Meeting Fri 22 Sat 23 Sun 24 ****************************** UPCOMING EVENTS ****************************** ALMA Calendar--see also https://wiki.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/NAASC * April 13 -- NAWG Videocon * April 25 -- 1pm NA ALMA TeleCaucus * April 26 -- ALMA Board telecon * April 29 -- 2-3pm ANASAC Telecon * May 3 -- 14:30UT ASAC Telecon * May 4-5 -- WVR PDR, OSO, Gothenburg, Sweden * May 10-11 -- ESO Finance Committee meeting * May 17 -- 14:30UT Science IPT Telecon * May 26 -- 1500UT ALMA Board telecon * May 29-Jun 2 -- AAS Minneapolis * May 29-Jun 2--Band 4 (2mm), Band 8 (.6 mm), ACA Correlator reviews, Tokyo * June 5-6 -- ESO Council * June 12 -- 1-5pm ANASAC Face-to-Face CfA, Cambridge * JUN 13 - 16 Workshop on submillimeter wavelength astronomy in Cambridge. Registration deadline is APR 30. For more information, log onto the event website: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/smast05. * June 21-22 -- ALMA Board Meeting, The Hague, Netherlands ******************************* TECHNICAL NEWS ******************************* The Report of the ALMA Science Advisory Committee to the Board is available: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/ASACReport-February2005.pdf *******************************ALSO OF INTEREST******************************* For those wishing to attend introductory lectures on radio astronomy, please note that you are welcome to attend the summer student lectures. Details on these lectures are given (e.g. for CV) at: https://wiki.nrao.edu/bin/view/Main/CVSummerStudentCalendar or the appropriate Calendar for the site at which you work. ****************************************************************************** Please send information for upcoming calendars by Friday evening of the preceding biweekly period to Jennifer Neighbours or Al Wootten via e-mail (jneighbo@nrao.edu or awootten@nrao.edu). The calendar will be issued between late Friday and sometime on Monday by e-mail to all NRAO scientific staff members and anyone else interested. A specific mailing list, alma-info, has been created for anyone wishing to receive it. Past issues are available at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html