STRAWMAN Agenda for ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee

Assume 30 min per event, except as noted

Presentations must leave 5 min for questions

Start 0900 11 September

09:00-09:10 Welcome and establish plan for writing report (10 min) (Leo Bronfman, Ewine van Dishoeck, Geoff Blake, Yasuo Fukui)

09:10-09:30 Project Update (20 min)(Brown)

09:30-10:00 Toward a Three-Way Partnership (30 min)(Ishiguro)

10:00-10:40 AMAC report; management and structure of the project in Chile (40 min)( Dick Kurz and Marc Rafal)

10:40-11:10 Site Issues (Radford, Nyman, Sakamoto)

11:10-11:30 Break

11:30-12:00 The Atacama Compact Array: Design and Simulations (30 min)(Guilloteau, Wootten, Hasegawa)

12:00-1:00 Discussion of Science (Cox, Crutcher and Welch, Leaders)

1:00-2:00 Lunch, coffee

2:00-2:30 Band 10 Science Case (Yamamoto)
 
2:00-2:20 Report from CorrelatorTokyo Correlator MeetingProduction Planning (Chikada)

2:20-2:55 Discussion*(Blake, van Dishoeck, Nakai; Yamamoto, Bachiller)
                Recapitulation of Bands 1, 4 and 8, and enhanced/future correlator science cases

2:55-3:30 Prioritization of Enhancements (van Dishoeck, Fukui, Blake)

3:30-4:00 Software (Morita, Glendenning, Lucas)
                 Status of all on-line and off-line aspects and SSR requirements;
                 Report of Berkeley meeting, report on data reduction -> AIPS++

4:00-4:15 Break, coffee

4:15-4:45 Discussion on Software (Benz, Tatematsu, Gurwell, Leaders)
 

4:45-5:15 Calibration Issues (Guilloteau, Wootten, Hasegawa)

5:15-5:45 Discussion (Richer, Wilson, Matsuo)

5:45-7:30 ASAC only session

8:00-??    Dinner (TBA)

Start 0900 February 24, coffee available

09:00-9:30 Operations (Kurz, Rafal, Kawabe)

09:30-10:00 Discussion* (Evans, Leader)

10:00-10:30 Receivers (Payne, )
                    Status various prototype developments, related ASAC issues,
                    Progress report on plans for mass production

10:30-11:10 Discussion*(Blake, Nakai, van Dishoeck, Leaders)

11:10-11:30 Break

11:00-12:00 Report on prototype antennae (Baars, Mangum, Chikada)

12:00-12:20 Status Test Interferometer (Mangum)

12:20-1:00 Discussion*( Walmsley, Fukui and Welch, Leaders)

1:00-2:15 Lunch, coffee, walk around Cerro Calan

2:15-2:30 Outreach, P. R.; Wootten

2:30-02:50 Other Chajnantor Projects

(10 min) The ASTE Project (Kawabe)

(10 min) The APEX Project (Schilke?)

Discussion*

2:50-4:00 Writing assignments and subgroup meetings*

4:00-5:00 Meeting of the whole, reports, election of new Vice-Chairperson*

5:00 Adjourn at 5 PM

A partial list of things to read before the meeting

Calibration:

Documents previously distributed: A key reference is the Calibration White Paper .

ACA Issues:

Receivers:

Please also see:

Report of the Front End PDR

Water Vapor Radiometry

Documents from previous meetings: The Cambridge and Onsala groups have proposed the next generation of 183 GHz Line Monitors (PS) and 183 GHz Line Monitors (MSWord).

Correlator

Configurations

Please visit the ALMA Configuration Page.

Possible Participants

Aloin Isabelle
Baars Jacob
Bachiller Rafael
Benz Arnold
Blake Geoffrey
Booth Roy
Bronfman Leonardo
Chikada Yoshihiro
Cox Pierre
Crutcher Richard
Evans Neil
Fukui, Yasuo
Glendenning Brian
Guilloteau Stephane
Gurwell Mark
Hasegawa Tetsuo
Hofstadt, Daniel
Illanes, Esteban
Kurtz Richard
Lucas Robert
Mangum Jeffrey
Matsuo Hiroshi
Nakai Naomasa
Nyman, Lars-Ake
Payne John
Radford Simon
Rafal, Mark
Richer John
Sakamoto, Seiichi
Schilke, Peter
Shaver Peter
Tetematsu Ken
van Dishoeck Ewine
Walmsley Malcolm
Welch Jack
Wilson Christine
Wootten Al
Yamamoto Satoshi