ALMA Science Advisory Committee
Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Tuesday 1 June 2004
Conference Date: 2004-June-01 (Tuesday)
Here's the dial-in information for the telecon:
CALL TIME: 14:30
Universal Time or 1030 am EST
CALL DATE: 1-June-2004
(Tuesday)
DURATION:
1 hr
- USA Number: 877-874-1919
- Outside USA Number: +1-203-320-9891 NOTE NEW
NUMBER
- Passcode: 185064
- Leader: Al Wootten
Agenda items:
Old Business
(1) Minutes of the April Telecon
Agenda and Minutes of recent telecons may be viewed at the ALMA Sitescape
documentation site.
(2) ALMA Calendar
- 25-26 May -- ALMA Backend Review, Arcachon, France
- 27 May -- ALMA Board Telecon
- 7-8 June -- Band 7 PDR, Grenoble, France
- 15 June -- Science IPT Telecon
- 22-23 June -- ALMA Board Meeting, Garching
- 8-10 July -- Software IPT CDR2, Denver Colorado
- 24 September -- ALMA/EU Meeting,
Garching
- 11-12 October -- AMAC, Florence Italy
New Business-
1)Project Update (Tarenghi)
* Project News--JAO appointments, Project status,
Schreier to head AUI.
* Reviews:
Band
9 PDR
Band
3 PDR
Band
6 PDR
System
Design Review
* Operations Plan: Status
* Board face-to-face meeting
2) Board meeting (Mundy)
* Report discussion
ASAC
presentations
* Board Face-to-face items --
charges
from the Board
New charge suggestions?
3) Science IPT Items (Wootten/Wilson)
- ProtoMemo:
Simulations of the Effects of 1/f Gain Fluctuations on Measuring Linear
Polarization
with Linear Feeds by M. Holdaway
- A draft
version of John's memo on ALMA antenna position calibration is
available.
Please note particularly the diagrams at the end.
- ALMA/NACommunications Newsletter
4) Regional SAC Reports
* ESAC (van Dishoeck)
* ANASAC
(Carilli)
ALMA Workshop 14-15 May 2004. Agenda
Upcoming Meetings - Wootten
From
Spitzer to Herschel and Beyond: The Future of Far IR Space
Astrophysics 7-10 June 2004 Pasadena, California
International
Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy 59th
Meeting - - June 21-25, 2004
Cores, Disks, Jets
&
Outflows in Low & High Mass Star Forming Environments:
Observations,
Theory and Simulations July 12-16, 2004 Banff, Alberta,
Canada
The Cool
Universe:
Observing Cosmic Beginnings 2004 October 4-8
Universidad
Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
New
Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos 2004 October 11-13
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Dusty and
Molecular
Universe 27-29 October 2004, Paris
Protostars
and
Planets V 24 - 28 October 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village,
The
Big Island, Hawaii