ALMA Science Advisory Committee
Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Thurs 12 July 2001

Conference Date: July 12-2001 (Thursday)

Here's the dial-in information for the telecon:
 CALL DATE:        JUL-12-2001  (Thursday)
 CALL TIME:        10:15 AM EASTERN Daylight TIME 1415 Universal Time
 USA #: 888-566-6192
 International #: +1-712-257-2398
 PASSCODE:         ALMA
 LEADER:           Dr. Al Wootten
Agenda items so far include:

Old Business

(1) Please approve the minutes of the 14 June  Meeting.

New Business

(1) Update on three-way project; final AMAC report (NYA) (Brown, Kurz, Ishiguro)

(2) ASAC  guidelines  for future/enhanced correlator workshop (circulated by Rafael) (Bachiller)

(3) Report ACA tiger team + ACA science examples (Guilloteau, Wootten)

(4) Calibration Strategy PDR (Richer, Wootten, Guilloteau, Hasegawa) The Committee report is being constructed.  Wootten's notes are available.  Please see: Readings.

(4) Report operations working group; statement of work; input SSR? (Evans)

(6) Report Band 10 working group (van Dishoeck)
    Please examine the report on Bands 1, 4 and 8 and on the Correlator distributed to the EACC.

(7) Science day Santiago: draft program, press material (Bachiller, Bronfman)

(8) Chile logistics ( L. Bronfman)
    The next face-to-face ASAC meeting will take place in Chile in September. A plan as followshas been suggested: day –1 (9 September): San Pedro; day 0 (10 September): Chajnantor site; days 1,2 (11, 12 September): ASAC meeting in Santiago; day 3 (13 September): ALMA science day. A day –2 (8 September) may be added to allow more time in San Pedro for acclimatization and rest.

(9) Chile ASAC draft agenda (van Dishoeck)

(10) Upcoming SSR Berkeley meeting (Lucas)

(11) Draft DSB/2SB recommendation(to follow)

(12) AMAC, ACC Meetings in Munich (Kurz, Brown)

(13) Next Teleconference -

The next teleconference is nominally 9 August at 1415UT.