ALMA Science Advisory Committee
Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Tuesday 4 January 2005
Conference Date: 2005-January-4 (Tuesday)
Here's the dial-in information for the telecon:
CALL TIME: 1030 am EST or
15:30
UT
CALL DATE: 4 January-2005
(Tuesday)
DURATION:
1 hr
- USA Number: 877-874-1919
- Outside USA Number: +1-203-320-9891
- Passcode: 185064
- Leader: Al Wootten
Agenda items:
Old Business
(1) Rough
Notes of the last Meeting. Agenda of
December meeting.
Agenda and Minutes of telecons may be viewed at the ALMA Sitescape
documentation site.
(2) ALMA Calendar
- 4 Jan 2005 -- ASAC Telecon
- 5-7 Jan 2005 -- UNSC URSI Boulder meeting Commission J
- 11 Jan 2005 - ALMA Town Meeting, AAS San Diego; Agenda
- 27 Jan 2005 -- ALMA Board Telecon . Dates
for 2005
- 24-25 Feb 2005 -- Projected date, ASAC face-to-face, Garching
- 24 Feb 2005 -- ALMA Board Telecon. Rebaselining to be
discussed.
- 5-6 April 2005 -- ALMA Board Face-to-face meeting, Pasadena, CA.
New Business-
1) Project Update ( Project Office: Tarenghi/Beasley)
2) Board Communications (Turner)
* Board -- Excerpt of Summary
of Conclusions and Actions relevant to ASAC.
* Next ASAC face-to-face meeting set for
Garching 24-25 February 2005.
3) Science IPT Items
(Wootten/Wilson/Kawabe)
NRAO Newsletter
ESO Newsletter.
See ALMA
Science
IPT wiki page.
ALMA
Science Specifications and Requirements (a Board document).
This has been reformatted substantially.
Communications Newsletter
PS
job description...
4) External Activities, SAC Reports
* ALMA at the IAU (Turner)
* Invitation
for pan-ALMA Science meeting. Volunteer/EU needed to chair
subcommittee consisting entirely of Carilli at the moment.
* ESAC (van Dishoeck)
* ANASAC (Carilli)
* Japan (Kawabe)
Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
Dusty and
Molecular Universe 27-29 October 2004, Paris NEW!
Presentations online!
Papers.
Massive
Star Birth: A Crossroads of Astrophysics 2005 May 16-20, Acireale (Catania), Italy
Astrochemistry throughout
the
Universe: Recent Successes and Current Challenges 2005 August 29 -
September
2; Asilomar, California
Protostars
and
Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village,
The
Big Island, Hawaii
50th anniversary of the founding of NRAO October 15-19, 2006
Charlottesville, Virginia (tentative)
