From awootten at nrao.edu  Tue Dec  2 14:33:51 2003
From: awootten at nrao.edu (Al Wootten)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:33:51 -0500
Subject: [asac]2003 Dec 3 Telecon 1530 UT
Message-ID: <16332.59679.350827.899997@polaris.cv.nrao.edu>

Folks,

It is time for the December telecon.  An agenda will be circulated shortly.
meanwhile, please set your alarm clocks for Wednesday 3 December 2003 at
1530 UT, the time agreed at the last meeting.

Clear skies,
Al
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From awootten at nrao.edu  Tue Dec  2 21:33:12 2003
From: awootten at nrao.edu (Al Wootten)
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:33:12 -0500
Subject: [asac]Agenda for ASAC Telecon
Message-ID: <3FCD4B68.1080603@nrao.edu>

Folks

Here's the dial-in information for the telecon:
CALL TIME: 15:30Universal Time or 1030am EST
CALL DATE:        03-December-2003  (Wednesday)

   DURATION:              1 hr

     * USA Number: 877-874-1919
     * Outside USA Number: +1-203-320-9891   NOTE NEW NUMBER
     * Passcode: 185064
     * Leader: Al Wootten

I put an agenda at the following URL.

http://www.cv.nrao.edu/%7Eawootten/mmaimcal/asac/asacdec03agenda.html

Clear skies,
Al



From awootten at nrao.edu  Tue Dec 16 15:40:29 2003
From: awootten at nrao.edu (Al Wootten)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:40:29 -0500
Subject: [asac]Design Reference Science Plan
Message-ID: <16351.28093.450210.185478@polaris.cv.nrao.edu>

Folks,

The Science IPT has published the Design Reference Science Plan V1.0,
more popularly known as SCID-90.00.00.00-002-A-PLA 
on almaedm.tuc.nrao.edu under Science Documentation General as item number 3, or
directly at the URL:
http://almaedm.tuc.nrao.edu/forums/alma/dispatch.cgi/ipt90docs/folderFrame/100061/0/def/eee6

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Clear skies,
Al


From ewine at strw.leidenuniv.nl  Thu Dec 18 17:59:37 2003
From: ewine at strw.leidenuniv.nl (Ewine van Dishoeck)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:59:37 +0100
Subject: [asac]ALMA DRSP
Message-ID: <200312182259.hBIMxb9E017297@hydrogen.strw.leidenuniv.nl>

Dear all,

As mentioned in Al' message, the ALMA Design Reference Science Plan is now
released and publicly available. It can be accessed through:

    http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~joergens/alma/

and links from the NRAO and ESO ALMA Web pages are being made.  Feel
free to encourage your colleagues to visit the DRSP website.  Click on
"DRSP summary" to get a copy of the summary document that has been
submitted to ALMAEDM.

Happy holidays!

Ewine




From ishiguro at nro.nao.ac.jp  Thu Dec 25 02:46:58 2003
From: ishiguro at nro.nao.ac.jp (Masato ISHIGURO)
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 16:46:58 +0900
Subject: [asac]=?iso-2022-jp?B?QUxNQS1KGyRCISEbKEJidWRnZXQ=?=
Message-ID: <004d01c3cabb$4851c780$afdc2885@ISHIGUROVAIO3>

Dear colleagues,

Big news from ALMA-J!

Attached is the e-mail from Kaifu-san to the ALMA Board members on the
ALMA-J budget.
Thank you very much for your kind cooperation to realize this important
breakthrough toward the Japanese participation in ALMA.   We hope to join in
a joint construction activities as soon as possible.

I wish you all a happy new year.

Masato Ishiguro
and ALMA-J team

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kaifu" <kaifu at nao.ac.jp>
To: <roy at oso.chalmers.se>; ";" <ccesarsk at eso.org>; ";" <rdickman at nsf.gov>;
";" <giacconi at aui.edu>; ";" <jim.hesser at nrc.gc.ca>; ";"
<vdkruit at astro.rug.nl>; ";" <afs at astro.caltech.edu>; ";"
<Richard.Wade at pparc.ac.uk>; <ytanaka at xray.mpe.mpg.de>;
<kodaira_keiichi at soken.ac.jp>
Cc: <ishiguro at nro.nao.ac.jp>; ";" <tetsuo.hasegawa at nao.ac.jp>; ";"
<kaifu at nao.ac.jp>; <miyama at yso.mtk.nao.ac.jp>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 1:32 PM
Subject: ALMA-J


> Dear ALMA Board Members,
>
> I am pleased to inform to the ALMA Board that the ALMA-J construction
> budget has been
> included in the FY2004 Government Budget plan announced on 24 December.
> The Ministry of Finance and the Cabinet approved 25.6 Billion Yen (239M$,
> 1$=107Yen)
> for the ALMA-J budget in eight years and 1.0 Billion Yen
(9.35M$,1$=107Yen)
> for the
> FY2004 budget.
> As I mentioned before, some other resources including personnel costs of
> ALMA-J staff
> will be provided separately through the NAOJ annual operation budget.
>
> This is a wonderful X'mas present for us, and is definitely a firm step of
> Japanese
> participation to ALMA from 2004.
>
> I thank all ALMA Board members for your great cooperation which has been
so
> helpful
> for us.  We will do our best for the formal arrangement toward a three-way
> ALMA with
> your kind cooperation.
>
> Best regards, and a happy new year to you all!
>
> Norio Kaifu
> Director General of NAOJ
> **************************************************
> ????    Kaifu, Norio, Dr.
>
>    ????????
>    Director General, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
>       e-mail address:   kaifu at nao.ac.jp
>          ?????????2-21-2??181-8588
>          Address:  2-21-2 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan 181-8588
>              Office Phone?0422-34-3650    Fax?0422-34-3690
> **************************************************
>