ALMA Science Advisory Committee TeleConference 7 April 2004

ALMA Science Advisory Committee

Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Wednesday 7 April 2004

Conference Date: 2004-April-07 (Wednesday)

Here's the dial-in information for the telecon:

CALL TIME: 14:00 Universal Time or 1000 am EST
CALL DATE: 07-April-2004 (Wednesday)

DURATION: 1 hr

USA Number: 877-874-1919
Outside USA Number: +1-203-320-9891 NOTE NEW NUMBER
Passcode: 185064
Leader: Al Wootten

Agenda items:

Old Business

(1) Minutes of the March Telecon
Agenda and Minutes of recent telecons may be viewed at the ALMA Sitescape documentation site.

(2) ALMA Calendar

10-11 May -- ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Cambridge, England
14-15 May -- ALMA/NA Meeting, U. of Maryland Agenda
25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
22-23 June -- ALMA Board Meeting, Europe
8-10 July -- Software CDR, Boulder, Colorado
25 September -- ALMA/EU Meeting, Garching
10-11 October -- AMAC Meeting, Florence

New Business-

1)Project Update (Tarenghi)

* Project News--Chile status, ATF status
* ALMA Week and System Review
* Operations Group and the Operations Plan
* AMAC, Board face-to-face meeting

2) Board meeting (Mundy)

   *Board Face-to-face items --
               charges from the Board
     * Face-to-face Meeting
               Logistics
      * Strawman Agenda for Face-to-face Meeting

3) Science IPT Items (Wootten/Wilson)

- Memo: ALMA Calibration Source Counts at 250 GHz (Holdaway)
- A draft version of the Spec document of ALMA first science configuration
- JAO Quarterly report of the Science IPT
- ALMA/NACommunications Newsletter
- ALMA Commissioning and Science Verification Plan

4) Regional SAC Reports

        * ESAC (Cox)
        * ANASAC (Carilli)
             ALMA Workshop 14-15 May 2004. Agenda

5) Next meeting -- Monday, 10 May 8:30 UT

Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

ALMA Workshop May 14-15, University of Maryland

Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century 18-21 May 2004 Berlin, Germany

Cores, Disks, Jets & Outflows in Low & High Mass Star Forming Environments: Observations, Theory and Simulations July 12-16, 2004 Banff, Alberta, Canada

The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Beginnings 2004 October 4-8 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos 2004 October 11-13 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Dusty and Molecular Universe 27-29 October 2004, Paris

Protostars and Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village, The Big Island, Hawaii