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Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Wednesday 4 February 2004

Conference Date: 2004-February-04 (Wednesday)

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

CALL TIME: 15:30Universal Time or 1030am EST 
CALL DATE:        04-February-2004  (Wednesday)

  DURATION:              1 hr

Agenda items:

Old Business

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

(2) ALMA Calendar 

New Business-

1)Project Update  (Tarenghi)

     * Japan status
     * ALMA Week and System Review  
     * Stability--gain and phase--new System Design document.
     * Operations plan

 2) Board meeting (Mundy)

     *Board telecon 29 January items -- Charges
               charges from the Board

3) Science IPT Items (Wootten/Wilson)

         * Calibration Plan -- Phase and amplitude calibration status.
         * Early Science DRSP -- definition of modes available.
         * Operations plan face-to-face meeting with Software IPT occurred 22-23 Jan.

4) Regional SAC Reports

        * ESAC (Cox)
             International Meeting -- early 2006?
        * ANASAC (Carilli)   
             ALMA Workshop 14-15 May 2004.

5) Next meeting  -- Wednesday, 3 March 15:30 UT

     Occurs during mini-ALMA Week.
 
Upcoming Meetings 

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

Astronomical Polarimetry - Current Status and Future Directions March 15-19, 2004. Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Hawaii.

Dusty and Molecular Universe  27-29 October 2004, Paris

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