ALMA North American Science Advisory CommitteeTelecon

Phone Meeting 2003-May-23

Connection Details

Old Business --

Minutes of 2003-Apr-25 meeting.  Agenda of that meeting.

1. Dick Crutcher has been elected Chair of the ANASAC for one year.

2. Face-to-Face meeting.  The suggested date of 2003-June-16 conflicted with travel plans for certain key committee members. 

New Business -- Agenda

1.  ALMA Project News (Wootten)
2. ANASAC Face to face meeting (Crutcher, Wootten)
3. ALMA/AAS - Town Meeting January 2004? (Crutcher, Wootten)
           Topical Session Jan 2005?

4. Science Workshop 2004  (Wootten)

An ALMA Science Workshop will be held in Charlottesville, along the lines of one held in Europe last Fall (ESO Workshop: Science Operations with ALMA, ESO, Garching 8 Nov 2002; see also Surveyfrom November ESO Meeting). I have suggested asuggested agenda but the details will be entirely up to the SAG.

5. Operations Plan Discussion/Role of Regional Support Centers (Wootten)

In October 2001, the ASAC presented a set of recommendationsto the ALMA Coordinating Committee.  From it, the ALMA Operations Plan,
a living document which may be changed, was developed.  It is now available in postscript and also in Adobe pdf. 

ALMA Calendar


ANASAC Membership:
Leo Blitz
Andrew Blain
 Chris Carilli
 Dick Crutcher
 David Hollenbach
 Jason Glenn
 Dan Jaffee
 Luis Rodriguez
 Dave Sanders
 Xiaohui Fan
 Christine Wilson
 Lee Mundy
 Jean Turner
 Min Yun
 Phil Myers
 Doug Johnstone 
 Mark Gurwell
 Joan Najita



See ImCal and Calibration for background information on some of the above items.