ALMA Science Advisory Committee
Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon July 10, 2000
Conference Date: July-10-2000 (Monday)
Here's the dial-in information for the telecon:
Conference Date: AUG-07-2000 (Monday)
Conference Time: 10:15 AM EASTERN TIME
Conference Duration: 1 hr
Service Level: STANDARD
Call Type: MEET ME/DIALOUT
USA Toll Free Number: 888-790-1725
Non-USA Number: +1 312-470-7050
Passcode: ALMA
Conference Leader: Mr Al Wootten
Please approve the minutes of the July Meeting.
Agenda items so far include: (1) Agenda for our next face-to-face meeting on September 9/10 in Berkeley.
Peter wrote in the minutes:
3. Agenda for Berkeley ASAC
A number of topics were mentioned: the ACA, receiver issues, correlator
plans, configuration issues. C. Wilson mentioned other items from the
list of "future issues" from the Leiden meeting: Phase 2, LO systems,
software, spectrum management, site, outreach.
Details of the arrangements made by Jack are
here.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS:
A block booking reservation is being set up at The Hotel Durant
2600 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
510/845-8981 or 800 -2 -DURANT
FAX 510/486-8336
The Hotel Durant is 1 block South of the campus and is no more than a
ten minute walk from Campbell Hall where the meeting will take place.
A block booking rate of $108/night for a single room and $130/night
for a double room will be given to meeting participants.
PARTICIPANTS SHOULD MAKE HOTEL RESERVATIONS DIRECTLY WITH THE HOTEL.
When reserving, please refer to the "ALMA Scientific Advisory
Committee" block booking in order to receive the special rate.
All rooms must be guaranteed in advance, by a major credit card,
advance deposit of first night's room and tax or by established
credit account. After the cut-off date, the
Hotel Durant will continue to accept reservations on a space
available, rate available basis. Overnight parking for hotel guests
is subject to a $7 per vehicle, per night charge.
The Hotel Durant is within easy walking distance of many restaurants
and shops. You can also get a campus map from the main desk.
(2) News (3)IAU At the IAU, ASAC members may attend the meeting at
a speakerphone which Gary Fuller has set up in his office, which is in the
Main Building at UMIST on H floor and the room is
H6. The main building is the large building north of the railway lines
which cross the campus. Your best bet is to enter the main building
at the eastern end of the North or South sides and then take the
elevator up to H floor. There is only one corridor on H floor - my
office is on the east side at the northern end.
IAU Activities concerning ALMA
Continuing: ALMA display (Rebecca Johnson) with pamphlets
Bryan Butler's poster presentation at IAU 202 7 - 11 Aug
9 Aug IAU 201 SZE imaging with ALMA - S. Myers
"Observatory Reports" - August 10, Manchester
ALMA (10) = Al Wootten
A. Benz has 5 minutes at the Division II (Sun an Heliosphere) business meeting
on Thusday, August 10th, 12:45-13:55, Roscoe Building, Room 3.2.
"I will present ALMA briefly and mention its solar capabilities. Then I will
call for a meeting of the people interested right after the business meeting
to discuss solar/stellar ALMA specifications and observing modes. This will
start around 14:00.
There seems to be little on stellar astronomy except S203, where I will
announce the discussion and invite stellar astronomers to the discussion on
ALMA specifications. The stellar specification do not seem to me very
demanding, except for outrigger antennas which seem to out of discussion. I
will talk to the early-type star people at Jodrell during my visit there and
see whether we could arrange a meeting.
Pulsar observations are more critical. I have written a letter to the
president of J. Moran for help, but not yet received an answer. I hope to
have some meeting in the second week of the GA."
Dave Wilner says:
" Kawabe-san will speak on ALMA at
Joint Discussion 9 on Cold Gas and Dust at High Redshift at the
IAU General Assembly, on August 14. Anyway, if we have any new
ALMA pr materials, we might pass them along (kawabe@nro.nao.ac.jp).
Also, there will some time for open discussion at 5 pm, so feel free
to make your own brief contribution, if you'd like."
Members of Commission 40 will have received an email from Jim Moran with
details on the frequency allocations achieved by Gergely, Whiteoak and
others at the WRC.