Draft face-to-face agenda September 23, 2004
INFORMATION
ON ACCOMMODATION and TRAVEL
The Committee
CHARGE
from the ALMA Board
27 September 2004
8:30 am 1. Organization and IPT liaisons (Closed session) ( Schilke,
Turner)
9:00 am 2. Project status report (Tarenghi or other member of management IPT)
Reading Materials:JAO Positions PS job description...
10:00 am Discussion
10:30 am Break
10:45 pm 3. Report from Japan (Kawabe)
- ALMA Progress in Japan -
ACA
Reading materials:
ACA
Project Book
11:15 pm Discussion
11:30 am 4. Outreach (Project Scientists )
- ALMA/NA Town
Meeting at AAS; ANASAC (Carilli)
- ESAC Meeting Report (van Dishoeck)
- ESO Community Day report; EU
ARC(Wilson)
- ALMA science meeting
(2005? 6?) (Wilson, Wootten)
- Discussion of ARCs
(vanden Bout, Wilson, Wootten, Kawabe)
Reading materials:
12:30 pm Lunch
13:30 pm Science IPT Review
(Wootten)
Reading materials:
Latest version of ALMA
Science Specifications and Requirements
13:45 pm
1.
Recommend clear, science-based criteria to be used by the Project in
preparing tradeoff studies should budgetary constraints make it
necessary to reduce planned activities in the baseline project
following analysis of the responses to the antenna procurement process. (E. van Dishoeck
(Receivers); J.
Turner (Baselines and Antennas))
Report on Simulations (Holdaway;
via videocon from Tucson)
Reading materials
Extract
from ALMA Science Requirements justifying ALMA's plan for 64
antennas.
ALMA Science by receiver band graph
of sensitivity
ASAC Request
for Simulations
14:30 pm Discussion
15:00 pm Break
15:15 pm 2. Following thorough assessment of the pros and cons of
policies in use at existing ground- and space-based facilities,
including those currently operated by the ALMA Executives, ASAC is
invited to consider policy recommendations on:
a. how to facilitate joint projects between scientists of different
partners,
b. how to handle large proposals with significant scientific
duplication, and
c. whether provision needs to be made at this time for legacy projects
and, if so, what mechanisms should be used for such projects.
These complex, often-contentious issues should be addressed in the
spirit of demonstrating how ASAC believes their recommendations, if
adopted, would maximize ALMA’s scientific impact.
(C. Wilson, L. Testi, D. Mardones)
16:00 am Discussion
16:30 pm 3. Help the Science IPT to plan their study of the
impact of calibration on a handful of the most challenging major
science goals, in particular by providing ASAC’s views on the types of
projects you feel are the most challenging from a calibration point of
view. Review and comment on the Science IPT’s report when finished. (C.
Carilli, P. Cox)
18:00 pm Break for Dinner
28 September 2004
9:00 am Consider in more detail how the choice of
objects for demonstration science with ALMA might be made and in
particular how to facilitate involvement by the broader community in
that process. (P. Schilke, P. Myers)
9:30 am Discussion
10:00 am 5. Consider the project’s plans and progress
towards a Science Verification Plan. (L. Mundy, J. Richer)
Reading Materials:
Plan
10:30 am Discussion
11:00 am Break
13:00 pm Lunch
14:00 pm Drafting of report (Closed Session)
14:30 pm Discussion
15:15pm Presentation of Findings (All)
15:45 pm Adjourn
16:00pm Colloquium (NRAO) "Gas and Ice in Protoplanetary Disks"
Ewine van Dishoeck, Leiden Observatory