ALMA Science Advisory Committee
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
- 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 January Telecon
Minutes to be linked.
Agenda and Minutes of recent telecons may be viewed at the ALMA Sitescape
documentation site.
(2) ALMA Calendar
- 18-20 February -- Selected IPT Leads attend meeting in Japan
- 26 February -- ALMA Board telecon 2004
Board Meeting Dates
- 1-5 March-- ALMA System Review/mini-ALMA Week, near Munich
- 11-12 March -- AMAC Meeting, Charlottesville NTC
- 30 March -- 1 April ALMA Board meets, Socorro, N. M.
- 10-11 May -- ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Cambridge, England
- 14-15 May (tent) -- ALMA/NA Meeting, U. of Maryland
- 25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
- 22-23 June -- ALMA Board Meeting, Europe
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.
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