BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
                          Sept 26, 2005 - Oct 10, 2005

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 Last week (of 9/12) an intense snowstorm battered Chajnantor for four days. 
 By 20 Sept. the ALMA people had cleaned up the road to APEX, and ASTE had
 been reached.  The Jama road remained closed but is expected to open for
the APEX dedication.
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The Dedication of the APEX telescope, which varies slightly from the Vertex
antenna design contracted for ALMA by North America, will occur
25-26 September.  The telescope arrived on Chajnantor in May, 2003.
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 Daisuke Iono, currently a postdoc at SMA with much 
experience in sub-millimeter astronomy and SMA commissioning, will join 
the  ALMA-J Science team Oct. 1st, 2005. 
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Past issues of this Calendar may be viewed at
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html
See also the JAO ALMA Calendar overview at:
http://www.alma.cl/alma_project
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General Happenings
Santiago: The ASAC will gather for a meeting at the Holiday Inn Express
1-2 October.  

OSF: 

AOS: APEX Inauguration, 25-26 September.
The proposed road construction to the summit of Chajnantor was approved by 
CONICYT, then TAO (Tokyo Atakama Observatory) group in Univ of Tokyo will 
start the road construction for the new optical telescope to be located there. 
B. Vila Vilaro is now visiting San Pedro to perform measurements using ASTE; 
one is pointing jitter measurements and another is OTF experiments.

Tucson:  

ATF: 

AOC: 

NTC: 

NAASC:  
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DAILY CALENDAR (Times EDT ) see
https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/AlmaCalendar
 Mon  26 Sept APEX Inauguration
 Tue  27
10:30 AM-11:30 AM: JAO IPT Telecon
11:30 AM-12:30 PM: Change Control Board
 Wed  28
 Thu  29
 Fri  30
 Sat  Oct 1 ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Santiago
 Sun  Oct 2 ASAC Face-to-face meeting, Santiago
 Mon  Oct 3
  German Unity Day Holiday, Germany
 Tue  Oct 4
10:30 AM-11:30 AM: JAO IPT Telecon
 Wed  Oct 5
 Thu  Oct 6
 Fri  Oct 7
 Sat  Oct 8
 Sun  Oct 9
  Travelers to ALMA Cost Review arrive Munich.
****************************** UPCOMING EVENTS ****************************
ALMA Calendar--https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/AlmaCalendar
    * Sep 29-30 -- ESO Council
    * Oct 1-2 -- ASAC Meeting, Santiago
    * Oct 5 -- ESO Finance Committee
    * Oct 6 -- Rolling Stones come to Scott Stadium, Charlottesville
    * Oct 13-16 -- ALMA Cost Review proposed, Munich
    * Oct 26-27 -- AUI Board, Santiago 
    * Nov 1-2 -- ALMA Board, Santiago
    * Nov 8-9 -- ESO Finance Committee
    * Nov 8-9 -- ALMA-J Antenna SRR, Osaka
    * Nov 10-11 -- ACA System Review, Tokyo
    * Nov 21-22 -- SSR Meeting, Charlottesville
    * Nov 30-Dec 1 -- National Science Board meets
    * Dec 7-8 -- ESO Council Regular Meeting
    * Jan 4-7 -- URSI/NA, Boulder
    * Jan 12-14 -- ALMA Zmachines workshop
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******************************ALSO OF INTEREST******************************
James Lamb reports that on 19 Sept fringes were obtained with the
OVRO2, OVRO4, and BIMA 3 antennas of CARMA on Saturn, Venus, and 3C273,
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