Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Weds 5 June 2002
Conference Date: June-5-2002 (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: JUNE-05-2002
(Wednesday)
DURATION:
1 hr
USA Toll Free #:877-716-4285
International #: +1-712-257-2762
PASSCODE:45504
LEADER: Al Wootten
Agenda items so far include:
Old Business
(1) Please approve the minutes of the May Telecon.
The ALMA Board will most likely meet in Chile at the end
of October. The EACC meets (probably) 16-17 September in Munich to consider
Japanese entry into ALMA. Therefore the most popular dates for the ASAC
meeting will not work. The second most popular, also leaving the most time
between meetings, is:
Option E. Friday Sept 6: Visit Vertex antenna pm
Sept 7-8, meeting
Sept 9 fly out to next meeting or home
Unable to attend these dates: Yamamoto, Gurwell, Bachiller
The Vertex antenna is being assembled, see the webcam
New Business
(1) Status Report and summary of the meetings which were held in May: (B. Brown, R. Kurz, M. Rafal...)
ACC teleconference; the ALMA Board and its ASAC
Chile meeting (site issues)
(2) Charges from the ACC to the ASAC and discussion/organisation (Guilloteau; Booth and Yun Configuration liaisons)
The ASAC is requested to summarize the scientific, technical, and
cost issues associated with the long baseline array geometries currently
under consideration and to advise the ad hoc ALMA Board as to possible land
use and land access impacts of which it should be aware. Please review
the text
from Stephane on the largest configuration.
(3) New organisation of the Calibration Group (Wootten; Richer and Wilson, Calibration liaisons)
(4) The concept of `stringency' (Evans)
(5)The next teleconference is nominally 3 July 1430 UT