Conference Date: April 12-2001 (Thursday)

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

Conference Date: 12 Apr 2001

Conference Time: 10:15 AM EASTERN TIME=14:15 UT

Conference Duration: 1 hr

Service Level: STANDARD

Call Type: MEET ME/DIALOUT

USA Toll Free Number: 888-791-2132

Non-USA Number: +1-415-228-4574

PASSCODE: ALMA

Conference Leader: Mr Al Wootten

Agenda items so far include:

Old Business

(1) Please approve the minutes of the March  Meeting.

New Business

(1) - ACC Meeting in Tokyo; Formation of Expanded ACC (Guilloteau)
    A resolution was signed by Dr. Cesarsky, Chair of the ACC, Dr. Eisenstein, Vice Chair of the ACC and Dr. Kaifu, Director-General of NAO-J, concerning the Partnership for planning the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA).  One aspect of this resolution was that a Japanese Delegation will, with immediate effect, participate in the work of the ACC through an expanded ALMA Coordinating Committee.  Members of this expanded ACC for Japan were announced as M. Shibata (MEXT), T. Godai (Director, Japanese Space Commission), H. Okuda (ISAS), Y. Tanaka (Board of Councilors, NAO-J), N. Kaifu (Director-General of NAO-J), S. Ikeuchi (Science Council of Japan) and Kodaira (President, General Research University).  Please see the press release.
 
(2) - Next Face-toFace Meeting ( L. Bronfman)
    The next face-to-face ASAC meeting will take place in Chile in September. The final dates have not yet been set.  Exams in Japan suggest that the meeting occur in the second week, so this would in turn suggest a plan as follows: day –1 (9 September): San Pedro; day 0 (10 September): Chajnantor site; days 1,2 (11, 12 September): ASAC meeting in Santiago; day 3 (13 September): ALMA science day. A day –2 (8 September) may be added to allow more time in San Pedro for acclimatization and rest.

(3) - Data Manipulating Software with ALMA (Glendenning)

Please read the background material submitted by Glendenning and Raffi.

(4) - Calibration Meeting.

One versio of a draft agenda may be found at: the plan.

(5) Next Teleconference -

The AEC/ALG and IPT leaders will meet in Paris on 10-11 May to incorporate Japan into the Project planning.  The results of this meeting may be discussed at the next teleconference, nominally 17 May at 1415UT.