ALMA Science Advisory Committee

Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Wednesday 6 August 2003

Conference Date: 2003-August-06 (Wednesday)

Here's the dial-in information for the telecon:
 CALL TIME: 14:30Universal Time or 1030am EDT (Follow the link for times in other time zones as various nations change to and from summer time)
 CALL DATE:         06-August-2003  (Wednesday)
  DURATION:              1 hr

• USA Number: 877-874-1919
• Outside USA Number: +1-712-934-1791
• Passcode: 185064
• Leader: Al Wootten

Old Business

(1) Minutes of the July   Telecon
 Agenda and Minutes of recent telecons may be viewed at the ALMA Sitescape documentation site.

(2) ALMA Calendar

• 7 August ALMA Board Telecon
• 25 August ANASAC face-to-face meeting, Chicago
• 2 September ESAC face-to-face meeting, Europe
  
• 5-6 September ASAC Meeting  Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• 13 October  AMAC Meeting proposed, Europe (possibly ALMA Week in conjunction with this)
  
• 2-3 November ALMA Board,  Santiago
• 6 November    ALMA Groundbreaking

New Business-

1)Project Update from JAO (Tarenghi or Wootten)

2) Liaisons (Richer)

4)Report from ANASAC - (Wootten)

5)Next face to face meeting plans - (John Richer, Chris Wilson)

6)Design Reference Science Plan - (Wootten, van Dishoeck)

7)Science IPT report (Wootten, van Dishoeck)

• status of configuration -- Inner configurations accepted; outer plan due end of June (link to be provided); move sequence draft available.
  Some results can be seen at http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~jconway/ALMA/SIMULATIONS/SIM24/
  
• Calibration summary
• Current List of Level 2 Milestones for Science IPT
• ALMA Science Requirements  document under construction provides a succinct flowdown from the Project Plan; Preface to Engineering Requirements
                      document nearing completion.
• Public Relations.  New images, a new movie, display at IAU, new brochures all had a debut at the IAU.
  
  

8)AOB

9)Date of next telecon meeting - TBD.