[alma_na] ALMA Week

[Jacob Baars]

Dear Colleagues Division Heads and Team Leaders,

on behalf of the AEC, I like to inform you that the next ALMA Week is 
scheduled to take place in Granada, Spain, from Tuesday 23 through 
Saturday 27 April 2003.
The ACC is meeting the last days of the week before in Venice and we 
have decided to allow Monday for travel to Granada, beginning the 
Meeting on Tuesday morning. The meeting will continue into Saturday, 
allowing a Saturday night stay-over before return travel on Sunday. 
There are three flights daily on Iberia, both from/to Madrid and 
Barcelona. IRAM-Spain has offered to take care of the local 
arrangements, for which we are very grateful.

As you will recall, the basic idea behind the ALMA Week is to combine 
in one place during one week a number of smaller, specialized 
progress or review meetings with a general meeting of all DH/TLs with 
the Management on all aspects of the ALMA Project. This will reduce 
travel time and cost for those who would have to attend several of 
such meetings and enables a wider dissemination of information than 
during separate small meetings. It is expected to hold the ALMA Week 
twice per year.

Therefore all Division Heads and Team Leaders are requested to 
arrange upcoming discussion and review meetings in their area of 
responsibility in the time slot of the ALMA Week. To help us prepare 
the schedule and other logistic requirements of the meeting, the AEC 
invites you to inform us at your earliest possibility of your plan to 
arrange a discussion meeting during the ALMA week. You should give us 
the subject of the meeting, expected time duration and estimated 
number of participants. This will allow us to allocate meeting space 
and construct an optimum schedule. As a guideline, we should receive 
your preliminary announcement by 14 January 2002.

Copy of this message goes to our Japanese and Canadian colleagues for 
information.

I take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and relaxed Holiday Season.
With best regards,

Jaap