ALMA Science Advisory Committee TeleConference 7 July 2004

ALMA Science Advisory Committee

Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Wednesday 7 July 2004

Conference Date: 2004-July-07 (Wednesday)

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

CALL TIME: 1030 am EDT or 14:30 UT
CALL DATE: 7-July-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 June Telecon .
Agenda and Minutes of recent telecons may be viewed at the ALMA Sitescape documentation site.

(2) ALMA Calendar

8-10 July -- Software IPT CDR2, Denver Colorado
20 July -- Science IPT Telecon
5 August -- ALMA Board telecon
??? -- ASAC
24 September -- ALMA/EU Meeting, Garching
11-12 October -- AMAC, Florence Italy

New Business-

1) Project Update (Tarenghi)

N.B. This time coincides exactly with that of a JAO/IPT telecon; we have changed it.
Project Scientist position open. PS job description...
22-23 June Board Meeting,
New PP reportedly approved at Board meeting!
Report to the ALMA Board (Mundy)

2) Board meeting (Mundy)

* Board items -- New charges?

3) Science IPT Items (Wootten/Wilson)

- CCB meeting 1 July approved three change requests of Science interest, and several Doc approval requests:
              Change Cold Multiplier Ratio in Band 9 from X5 to X6 (ALMA-40.10.04.00-001-A-CRE)
                   x5 did not work. x6 is propsed, and can deliver 35 microwatts. The B9 spec is 50 microwatts. Approval could mean a Trx penalty--about
4K or so, Thacker estimates. Since a) the first 8 are NbN technology and are not meeting the noise spec across the whole band, and b) the
review suggested NbTiN technology be developed for the production run (which should produce better performance) and c) option is to come
up with a new multiplier this was approved.
              Request to extend upper frequency limit on band 7 (ALMA-40.02.07.00-003-A-CRE)
                   IRAM suggested 300K performance in the extension region. This was approved.
              Inclusion of 90d phase switching in the ALMA first LO (ALMA-56.00.00.00-001-A-CRE)
                  This was approved.
    - Polzn Study Vers 2b: A new version from Mark Holdaway
- Calibration group reorganized, telecon 15 July.

4) Regional SAC Reports

* ESAC (van Dishoeck)
* ANASAC (Carilli)

5) Next meeting --Telecon Tuesday, 3 August 14:30 UT

Face-toFace???

Upcoming Meetings - Wootten

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

ESO ALMA COMMUNITY DAY 2004 September 24 Garching Germany

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
Astrochemistry throughout the Universe: Recent Successes and Current Challenges 2005 August 29 - September 2; Asilomar, California New!

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