ALMA Science Advisory Committee


Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Weds 7 August 2002

Conference Date: August-7-2002 (Wednesday)

Here's the dial-in information for the telecon:
 CALL TIME: 10:30 AM EASTERN TIME 1430 Universal Time (Follow the link for times in other time zones as various nations change to and from summer time)
 CALL DATE:         AUGUST-07-2002  (Wednesday)
  DURATION:              1 hr
 USA Toll Free #:888-790-1715
International #: +1-630-395-0192
PASSCODE: 30111
LEADER:  Al Wootten

Agenda items:

Old Business

(1) Please approve the minutes of the July   Telecon.
 Agenda and Minutes of recent telecons may be viewed at the ALMA Sitescape documentation site.
(2) The agenda for the next face-to-face meeting is:
 Friday Sept 6: Visit Vertex antenna pm  The Vertex antenna is being assembled, see the webcam where the backup structure is just hidden by orange packing crates to the right of the crane.
  Sept 7-8, meeting
  Sept 9 fly out to next meeting or home

  New Business

(1) Status Report: (P. van den Bout, M. Tarenghi, R. Kurz, M. Rafal.)
  ESO Council
  ACC teleconference
  Chile
  the Vertex prototype antenna

(2) Interim reports from Working Groups on Charges from the ACC to the ASAC and discussion (Guilloteau; )
  - Site evaluation and stringency - N. Evans
 The site statistics have been collected at this site. Check out the section of plots labelled 'A Few of the More Representative Graphs"
 - Early Science - P. Cox

(3)Japanese community meeting on Japan's participation in the ALMA project - S. Yamamoto

(4)The next teleconference is nominally 4 September 1430 UT