[asac] Leiden ALMA Meeting

[Al Wootten]

Dear Colleague,

Plans for the ASAC meeting are close to final and this mailing includes some
information in addition to that sent earlier.

I am sending this to the asac mailer and to those who are coming but
not included in the mailer. If you get this as part of the ASAC, 
but are not coming, it is because of my using the mailer.

The following will be appended at the end of this message.
1. Agenda (see http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asacleidenagenda.html
    which inludes hyperlinked documents to read)
2. List of Participants
3. Partial list of relevant reports and documents for ASAC members to read.
4. Directions to Observatory

Be prepared for rain (or possibly snow) and temperatures between 0 and 10 C.

Those arriving Thursday can either have dinner at the hotel or go into central
Leiden, where there are many restaurants. Please tell the hotel when you check
in if you are staying there for dinner. Because other groups are meeting
at the castle, some of you will be at the Mayflower Hotel Thursday; if so,
you will have been notified by Janet Soulsby. The Mayflower is close to
many restaurants. Maps of Leiden are usually available at the hotel. For those
staying at the castle who want to contact people at the Mayflower, the phone 
number is 514-2641. If you are here (and awake) during the day Thursday,
feel free to come to the Oort/Huygens Buildings where the Observatory is 
located.  Directions are appended.
Ewine is in Rm 505 of the Huygens lab and Neal is in Rm 536 of the Oort lab.
Ewine's phone number is 527-5814. Neal's phone number is 527-5865.
Neal will be in his office most of the day, except that he gives a colloquium 
on protostellar collapse at 4 PM. 

Those arriving in the morning may not be able to check in right away, and it
probably won't be possible to leave things in rooms past check-out time because
other groups are arriving.
At the Mayflower hotel you can get into your room about 1 p.m. and at the
conference centre possibly a little before lunchtime. Checking out is
before 10:30, Mayflower, and 10:00 at the conference centre. (By the way you
are kindly asked to please check in at the Mayflower before 6.p.m. on the
day of arrival)

The meeting room has an overhead projector and flip chart board. 
If you need any other A-V aids, let us know right away. 
There is a xerox machine at the meeting center, but it is expensive. If you
have paper to distribute, please bring enough copies; if this is not possible
and you appear on the agenda Friday afternoon or Saturday, you can give things
to us Thursday afternoon or Friday morning to have duplicated at the Observatory.  

For those staying over Saturday night, you are invited to a buffet supper
chez Evans/Geballe. Please reply by email to nje at strw.leidenuniv.nl
if you are likely to attend and indicate if you are vegetarian, 
have food allergies, etc. Directions will be given at the meeting.

We look forward to seeing you in beautiful Leiden, where the flowers are
starting to bloom!

Neal and Ewine


           Agenda for ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee
             Leiden March 10-11, 2000
	     Assume 30 min per event, except as noted
	     Presentations must leave 5 min for questions
	     Sessions in the Wapenzaal, second floor of Kasteel

Start 1030 March 10, coffee available

10:30-10:40  Welcome and establish plan for writing report (10 min)
             (Ewine van Dishoeck, Neal Evans)

10:40-11:10 Interim Report on Definition of Phase 2, Schedule, Estimated Cost
              (Dick Kurz)

11:10-11:40  Report from ALMA Liaison Group (ALG) on meetings in Grenoble 
             (Dec99) and Tokyo (Feb00).
             (Stephane Guilloteau or Dick Kurz and Ryohei Kawabe)

11:40-12:30 Discussion*

12:30-1:20  Lunch, coffee

1:20-2:00 Receivers (band boundaries, sensitivity goals, priorities, 
          update D&D work, plans for mass production, ...) (40 min)
          (Wolfgang Wild)

2:00-2:30 Q-band Receivers (Why ALMA should have them)
          (John Carlstrom)

2:30-3:00  Report on Polarization
           (Dick Crutcher)

3:00-3:30  Discussion*

3:30-4:00  Break, coffee

4:00-4:30  Report on System Reviews (Feb00)
           (Darrel Emerson or Jaap Baars)

4:30-5:00  Discussion

6:30       Bus to The Hague

7:00-9:30: Dinner at Indonesian Restaurant Garoeda, hosted by the 
           Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

           Return to Oud Poelgeest before 10 pm




Start 0830 March 11, coffee available

8:30-9:00 Report on Configurations, Long Baselines
          (Min Yun or Karl Menten)

9:00-9:30 Report on Antennas 
          (Dick Kurz)

9:30-10:00   Break, coffee

10:00-10:30  Report on Total Power, Nutating Secondaries
            (Jack Welch)

10:30-11:15  Report on Water Vapor Radiometry
             (John Richer, Chris Wilson)(45 min)

11:15-12:00  Discussion*

12:00-1:00   Lunch, coffee, walks in the woods

1:00-2:00    Writing assignments and subgroup meetings*

2:00-4:00    Meeting of the whole, reports, election of new Vice-Chairperson*

4:00         Adjourn at 4 PM


Agenda items with * following imply that we will split into two groups:
one includes the ASAC members, the observers from Chile and Japan, and only 
those members of the project staff that the committee wants to confer with; 
the other group will include the remainder of the project staff. 


                Participants
Baars, Jaap
Benz, Arnold
Blake, Geoffrey A.
Booth, Roy -- Mayflower Thursday
Bronfman, Leonardo
Brown, Robert
Carlstrom, John
Cox, Pierre -- Mayflower Thursday
Crutcher, Richard
Dishoeck van, Ewine
Emerson, Darrel
Evans, Neal
Fukui, Yasuo
Guilloteau, Stephane -- Mayflower Thursday
Gurwell, Mark
Kawabe, Ryohei
Kurz, Richard -- Holiday Inn
Rafael Bachiller
Menten, Karl M.
Nakai, Naomasa
Richer, John -- Mayflower Thursday
Scoville, Nick
Shaver, Peter
Walmsley, Malcolm
Welch, Jack
Wild, Wolfgang -- Mayflower Thursday
Wilson, Christine
Wootten, Al
Yamamoto, Satoshi -- Witte Huis Hotel
Yun, Min S.



Directions from the Kasteel Oud Poelgeest, Oegstgeest conference centre to the
Leiden Observatory,  J.H. Oort Building, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden.


If you prefer to walk rather than take a taxi it will take you between 15-20
minutes. The lab is near the bottom left corner of the map sent to you earlier.
>From the conference centre walk down to the main road and turn left (Laan van
Oud Poelgeest). Straight on at the roundabout. (The name of the street changes
to Warmonderweg. Continue straight on and at the T-junction straight across
into a narrow one way street Nachtegaallaan. Continue on and walk along the
path at the end of this street, passing on your right first a wooden building
with children's play equipment outside and then further down horse riding
stables. You are now at the roundabout on the Wassenaarseweg. Cross the road
and turn right walking along the Wassenaarseweg. You will see a tall chimney
stack coming up on your left. Take the second left - Niels Bohrweg and the
entrance to the J.H. Oort Building is across a bridge through the car
park on your left hand side. There you will find the Reception desk.
The Observatory occupies floors 4 and 5 as well as the 5th floor of the
Huygens Laboratory which is joined to the Oort building. 

FOR DIRECTIONS AND MAPS FROM THE TRAIN STATION TO LEIDEN OBSERVATORY,
SEE HTTP://WWW.STRW.LEIDENUNIV.NL


SUGGESTIONS FOR RESTAURANTS IN LEIDEN (French/Continental):

(ask taxi driver to take you there or walk from Mayflower hotel)

- Jill's restaurant: popular with live music on some evenings
  Morsstraat 6

- Restaurant La Cloche: best French restaurant in town, but also most expensive
    Kloksteeg 5

- Restaurant Het Prentenkabinet: nice setting in old mansion next to
      Kloksteeg 25                   Pieterskerk and plaque of Pilgrims fathers

- Fabers Restaurant
        Kloksteeg 13

-  Restaurant Koetshuis-de Burcht: nice setting at foot of old fort in
	  Burgsteeg 13                    center of town

 There are many other types of cuisine (Italian/Pizza, Greek, Chinese,
 Spanish/Argentina, etc.) in restaurants scattered throughout Leiden.