[asac] [Fwd: ALMA at 2006 IAU]

[Chris Carilli]

Interesting idea.  as pierre says, it overlaps with DUSTY04 in paris last
month, which emphasized ALMA/Hershel.   My impression of dusty04
was that they got together a great group of people, but the meeting
never really made the scientific ties between ALMA and Hershel. 
ALMA is really a deep, high resolution device.  Hershel is a low
spatial resolution, confusion limited SED machine and dust spectrograph.
both are interesting, but the talks should be geared toward emphasizing
the complementarity.  JWST is more along the lines of ALMA -- deep
and high res, but in the near-IR.    simply put,  we have to avoid
having three separate conferences under one name.

i'd be willing to help out in the next few weeks, as needs be.
cc

ps -- one strong recommendation would be NOT to put the GTO talks
at the very end of the meeting, as was done at dusty04.


Jean L. Turner wrote:

>Dear ASAC:
>
>I got the following email from Peter Stockman, STScI Project
>Scientist for the JWST. He suggests that we collaborate with
>them on a Joint Discussion at the IAU GA in Prague in 2006,
>on a session on future instruments. THey are suggesting
>JWST, ALMA, and Herschel.
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>Al and I agree that this is an excellent idea. We have not
>discussed this further with Peter, awaiting your response.
>A JD would not be too difficult to organize, and doing this
>jointly with JWST and Herschel at the IAU GA would bring
>together many astronomers from different regions
>of the spectrum. It will take some energy, and the ASAC has
>a busy year ahead. However, this seems to be a very
>worthwhile project. Do you agree?
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>If we decide we are interested, then a proposal will have to
>be prepared by January 1. The paperwork will not be too bad,
>only a few pages in length (as I recall; if someone knows
>differently, please correct me!), but what will have to be done
>is come up with an organizing committee, and a plan for the
>JD in concert with the JWST and Herschel people.
>
>Action items:
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>==> Please let me know what you think of the idea, ASAP.
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>==> Please let me know if you might be interested in serving
>on a subcommittee to organize this proposal (not necessarily
>to organize the JD at this stage, just the proposal), also
>ASAP.
>
>++> If you have any ideas for the workshop, I can collect those
>too. One thought that has occurred is that there might be
>members of the ESAC or ANASAC who would be willing to help
>organize the JD.
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>Jean
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