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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

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 

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

5) Next meeting  -- Tuesday, 6 July 14:30 UT

 
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