BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO 4 June - 18 June 2007 ******************************** THIS FORTNIGHT*************************** Joe McMullin has accepted an offer of the SI Lead position in Chile. For those of you who don't know Joe, he is a professional astronomer who currently manages the CASA development, and is based in Socorro NM. He will be bringing his CASA responsibilities to a close by about Q4 of this year, and moving to Chile to take up direction of the quickly-growing assembly and integration work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A short (90 second) ALMA video teaser was produced in mid-May to accompany our ALMA exhibit at the American Astronomical Society meeting: See it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEmX1zPdhPE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14 June Celebration of the Technical Building at the Array Operations Site will occur in conjunction with an observance of the 50th anniversary of NRAO. With all NRAO sites united by video, the occasion includes a ribbon cutting that will be performed by E.Donoso, M. Pilleux, C. Navarro, and J. Riquelme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Past issues of this Calendar may be viewed at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html See also the JAO ALMA Calendar overview at: http://www.alma.cl/alma_project *************************************************************************** General Happenings Photos of activity may be found at: http://www.alma.nrao.edu/almanews/almagallery/index.html Sky: Venus shines brightly as the evening star in the west this month. Arcturus is shining very high in the southeast--a late-type giant star, it will be among the brightest stars ALMA can see. Saturn rides high in the evening sky, and Jupiter and Mars highlight the morning sky. OSF (Ops Support Facility, 9600ft altitude): There are 500 people working at the ALMA site. ATF: By the way, there was an earthquake at the ATF shortly after 11:15 p.m. Tuesday 22 May. The magnitude was 3.3 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was about 4 miles west of Socorro. A calendar of NAASC events may be found at: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/naasc/calendar/calendar.php A number of ALMA-related science discussions will occur during the next fortnight at the NAASC; see the listings below. Registration for the workshop 'Transformational Science with ALMA: Through Disks to Stars and Planets' to be held 22-24 June 2007 is under way: See http://www.cv.nrao.edu/naasc/disk07/ for schedule. *************************************************************************** DAILY CALENDAR (Times EDT/EST ) see https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/AlmaCalendar Mon 4 June - 3:30PM: PSI/ATF telecon Tue 5 Jun - 10:30 AM-11:30 AM: JAO IPT Telecon Wed 6 Jun - Thu 7 Jun - Fri 8 Jun - Sat 9 Jun - Sun 10 Jun - Mon 11 Jun - Tue 12 Jun - Wed 13 Jun - Thu 14 Jun - Fri 15 Jun - Sat 16 Jun - Sun 17 Jun - ****************************** UPCOMING EVENTS **************************** Jun 13-14 Nutator PDR Taipei Jun 18-21 NRAO 50th Bday Cville Jun 21-24 Thru Disks 2 Stars Cville Jun 27-28 ALMA Board Meeting Santiago Sep 12-13 B6 CDR Cville ******************************* TECHNICAL NEWS *************************** *****************************ALSO OF INTEREST***************************** *************************************************************************** Please send information for upcoming calendars by Friday evening of the preceding biweekly period to Jennifer Neighbours or Al Wootten via e-mail (jneighbo at nrao.edu or awootten at nrao.edu). The calendar will be issued between late Friday and sometime on Monday by e-mail to all NRAO scientific staff members and anyone else interested. A specific mailing list, alma-info, has been created for anyone wishing to receive it. Past issues are available at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html