[asac]ALMA Board Meeting

[Al Wootten]

Folks:
 
The agreement between the NSF and ESO that formally establishes the ALMA 
project has been signed 2003-Feb-25 at NSF in Arlington, Virginia.  As called 
for in that agreement, the ALMA Board (NA: R. Dickman (V. Chair), R. Giacconi, 
J. Hesser, A. Sargent; EU: P. van der Kruit (Chair), C. Cesarsky, R. Booth, 
R. Wade) has completed its first meeting.

Among the actions of particular interest to the ALMA Science Advisory Committee:

(7) The new Board approved the offer to Massimo Tarenghi of the position
of Director, from 1 April 2003, and asked the Executives to expedite the
appointment.

(8) The Board thanked the Key Personnel Search Committee for their report and
asked the Committee to proceed with the remaining appointments as quickly as 
possible in coordination with the Director. 

(11) The Board endorsed the Project Plan dated 10 February as Version 1 of a
document which would be put under change control.  [The body of the
document is a public document available on ALMAEDM and to be included
in reading materials for the ASAC face-to-face meeting.]

(19) The Board asked the JAO and ASAC Chair to prepare, no later than 10 March,
 a draft charge for the ASAC meeting on 2/3 April for Board approval by written 
procedure.

(20) The Board agreed that Japan should be invited to send 3 observers to ASAC
and 2 to AMAC.

(21) The Board endorsed the goal of the JAO to procure the production
antennas to a single design which has been prototyped and evaluated.

An agenda for the ASAC telecon to be held 1530 UT 2003-Mar-05 will be
circulated shortly.

Now let's get it built!

Clear skies,
Al
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