ALMA North American Science Advisory CommitteeTelecon

Phone Meeting 2003-March-28


Connection Details


New Business -- Agenda


1. General charge to committee (F. Lo)

2. Perspective of the ALMA board   (A. Sargent)

3. Discussion of ASAC meeting agenda, highlighting issues relevant  to the ANASAC (A. Wootten)

4. Outline of other near term issues that might be considered by ANASAC(C. Carilli)
 some options:
 a. RSC requirements and role during construction and commissioning,
 b. fostering involvement of NA user community during this period
 c. required Chilean infrastructure for visiting scientists

5. Date and location of first face-to-face meeting (AW/CC)
  some options:
  a. mid-June, adjacent to VLBA anniversary and NRAO Users meeting in Socorro
  b. mid-Sept,  adjacent to ASAC meeting in ??
   related questions: should we include a NA town-hall-type meeting  as part of
   the first ANASAC meeting to get broader community input, or is this better
   left to the January AAS, after ANASAC has had time to consider the issues?
   also, should we have science overview talks as part of first ANASAC meeting?

6.  Telecons:  monthly?

7. Election process of chair/vice chair, and definition of terms for these  positions.
   some options:
  a. Nominations taken via email over next week, with email election to follow
  b. By default make the North American ASAC (vice)chair the ANASAC chair
  c. terms: same as ASAC (6 Months as chair/6 Month vicechair)


ALMA Calendar


Membership:
Leo Blitz
Andrew Blain
 Chris Carilli
 Dick Crutcher
 David Hollenbach
 Jason Glenn
 Dan Jaffee
 Luis Rodriguez
 Dave Sanders
 Xiaohui Fan
 Christine Wilson
 Lee Mundy
 Jean Turner
 Min Yun
 Phil Myers
 Doug Johnstone 
 Mark Gurwell
 Joan Najita



See ImCal and Calibration for background information on some of the above items.