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
ALMA Board met, signed agreement 2003-Feb-25.
Software IPT Preliminary Design Review was held in Tucson 18-20
March 2003.
AMAC Meeting 24-25 March Socorro
ASAC Face-to-face Meeting 2-3 April 2003 in Grenoble, France at IRAM.
May 26/27 ALMA Board face-to-face (Europe)
ALMA Week 2 June Victoria
November 2/3 ALMA Board face-to-face (Chile)
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.
Date of next phone meeting According to our current schedule
the next one should be on:
2003, April 25th 20:30 UT