From awootten at nrao.edu Tue Jul 4 23:34:08 2006 From: awootten at nrao.edu (Alwyn Wootten) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 23:34:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [asac] Telecon 1500 UT 2006 July 5 Message-ID: <57070.192.33.115.212.1152070448.squirrel@webmail.gb.nrao.edu> Folks Contact Information * 2006-July-5 15:00 UT * Duration: 1 hr * USA Toll Free Number: 877-874-1919 * Toll Number: +1-203-320-9891 * Passcode: 185064 * Leader: Al Wootten Agenda at the usual place. Al From kawabe at nro.nao.ac.jp Wed Jul 5 07:03:29 2006 From: kawabe at nro.nao.ac.jp (Kawabe Ryohei) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:03:29 +0900 Subject: [asac] Telecon 1500 UT 2006 July 5 In-Reply-To: <57070.192.33.115.212.1152070448.squirrel@webmail.gb.nrao.edu> Message-ID: Dear all, It will be very difficult for me and Baltasar to attend the telecon tonight, because we will have a meeting with Mitsubishi at the pre-assembling site (Kurashiki in Okayama Pref.) of the ACA 12 m antenna tomorrow. I am very sorry for that. The following is the recent update of ALMA-J activity. 1. Finally, the director of NINS (National Institute of Natural Sciences) signed the ALMA agreement yesterday! This is a historical milestone for ALMA; the trilateral ALMA gets stated! 2. We submitted ALMA-J 2007 budget request for the operation of ALMA and EA ARC to MEXT on June 22, with the ramp-up cost of operation during construction. The negotiation with MEXT will start soon. I am now fully involved in the work for the budget request as the acting EA ARC manager. 3. The production of ACA 12m antennas (new three) and the prototype of ACA correlator is going, but a little bit delayed. ALMA-J science team will join the commissioning/test of the antennas and prototype in Japan from Oct. or Nov. this year. 4. Regarding the combined array, intensive simulations for that wer performed by Shige and Daisuke. They are now summarizing the results. The results are clear and have an impact on what observing mode should be taken for the 12m array and ACA. We will circulate the draft reports on that until the end of this month. 5. We are discussing with ACA correlator team on the LO offset/180 deg.phase SW (also, 90 phase SW) issue. We will report on what we can do with ACA correlator and also science impact on sub-mm observations with band-9 and 10 etc. 6. By following-up the AIVC f2f meeting in Santiago, we are developing ALMA-J CSV and ARC staffing plan. Baltasar will contact AL and Robert on this issue. 7. I communicated with Massimo and EU and NA ARC manager on the operation plan recently. We will have f2f meeting on ALMA operation in Garching on July 21/22 to discuss staffing plan, hiring schedule of staff, and unresolved important issues etc. The integrated operation plan of BL plan and ACA plan will be prepared until the end of September. 8. Regarding ACA configuration, the document on the ACA location and configuration is now in the DAR process. I approve this and Al and Tom's responses to this document are important. 9. We are now developing ACA ancillary calibration device plan to start the discussion with site-IPT and Computing IPT on ICDs. The securing the location for the devices is the most important issue, because the ACA antenna site is very crowded. The second is ICD for data acquisition. I heard from Ken Tatematsu (Leader of ALMA-J computing team) that there is no ICD on that. I am wondering how we should do. PSs need to talk on this. 10. To follow the approval of the ALMA Scientific Specifications and Requirments doc by the board, we are preparing the final version of ACA Scientific Specs and Reqs. Comments from ASAC are very welcome. The development of ACA Calibration Specs and Reqs is also in the final phase. I might be missing something important, but it is time to leave my office (This week, our ALMA-J science team move to a temporal building because the current building is very old and refurbished this year. The EA ARC space will be prepared after the refurbishment) Regards, Ryohei On 06.7.5 0:34 PM, "Alwyn Wootten" wrote: > Folks > > Contact Information > > * 2006-July-5 15:00 UT > * Duration: 1 hr > * USA Toll Free Number: 877-874-1919 > * Toll Number: +1-203-320-9891 > * Passcode: 185064 > * Leader: Al Wootten > Agenda at the usual place. > > Al > > _______________________________________________ > Asac mailing list > Asac at listmgr.cv.nrao.edu > http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/asac > From jsr at mrao.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 7 10:41:02 2006 From: jsr at mrao.cam.ac.uk (John Richer) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:41:02 +0100 Subject: [asac] Face to Face, and Euro Project Scientist position Message-ID: Dear ASAC members, First just to remind you to get organised for the face to face meeting on the weekend of September 16/17. Leonardo will soon send round logistics details. From my own experience of booking flights to Florence today, I would advise you to act swiftly. Second, I pass on below a message from Tom Wilson, whom we must congratulate on his move to a more senior role in ESO. I'll take this opportunity to thank him for all his contributions to ASAC over the last few years, and look forward to his continuing contributions to ALMA in his new role. We will of course be able to do this in a more convivial fashion in Florence at the end of the summer. Regards, John -- John Richer Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~jsr Tel: +44-1223-337246 Fax: +44-1223-354599 ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Envelope-to: jsr at mrao.cam.ac.uk Delivery-date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:15:35 +0100 Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:15:22 +0200 From: Thomas Wilson To: John Richer , Richard Hills Subject: TLW future Dear John, Dear Richard, I should inform you that I am leaving the European Project Scientist post on 1 October. I will then assume the position of Associate Director of ESO, as ian Corbett's successor. This was settled ESO yesterday. This is a bit sudden, but I will attend all of the ESAC/ASAC meetings up to 21 Sept. I intend to help as best I can with the FP6 program in the future. Robert Laing will take on the European Proj Sci position on an interim basis. This position will be advertised by ESO ASAP. - -- Regards, Tom Wilson ------- End of forwarded message ------- From lt at arcetri.astro.it Mon Jul 10 06:03:15 2006 From: lt at arcetri.astro.it (Leonardo Testi) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:03:15 +0200 Subject: [asac] (no subject) Message-ID: <6853200F-3F75-49DE-90A6-805C73A2CEC0@arcetri.astro.it> Hi all, (John, I seem to have lost the list of invitees, please forward this info along with the invitation or just resend me the names) as I mentioned at the telecon, it is difficult to find rooms in Florence for the weekend of Sep 16/17. I have pre-reserved a number of rooms in the following Hotels. All these are very close to the location of the conference center where I am trying to book a room for us (few min walking). You need to contact the Hotels directly and define the dates of your stay, I have pre-booked the rooms for the nights 15-16-17. Remember to mention that you are from the ALMA meeting group. Hotel Classic - has parking, very few rooms available tel +39055229351 fax. +39055229353 www.classichotel.it Hotel Annalena tel +39055222402 fax. +39055222403 www.hotelannalena.it Hotel Boboli tel. 0552298645 fax +390552337169 www.hotelboboli.com I am also looking for other possibilities and hope to send more options in a few days. The conference center may have a small number of rooms available for the nights 15-16 and some more for 16 only, so if you are planning to leave on sunday evening this is a good possibility. Please let me know if this may work for you. Traveling info. If you cannot find a convenient connection to Florence, I mentioned a few weeks ago that one possibility could be to fly to Pisa. Within Pisa airport there is a train station (Pisa Aeroporto) which allows a connection to Florence main station (Firenze S.M.N.). Sometimes the connection is direct, sometimes a change in Pisa Centrale is needed. Direct trains from Pisa Aeroporto to Firenze S.M.N. on Sept 15 are at: 10:42, 11:43, 12:43, 17:53, 18:43, 19:53. You can check the complete timetable at: http://www.trenitalia.it/en/index.html (be sure to enter the exact station names as above). Touristic info. Many state museums will close on MONDAY, e.g. the Galleria degli Uffizi. If enough people are interested, we can try to organize a visit to the Uffizi and the Corridoio Vasariano on Sunday afternoon. The Corridoio Vasariano is a long passage that was used to link the Medici Palace (Palazzo Pitti in oltrarno) with Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi (the government offices). It runs over the Old Bridge and offers a very unusual view of Florence. The Museum of history of science, which holds an interesting Astronomical collection with some Galileo's instruments, is closed on Sunday. If you need expensive shoes, purses or clothes, you will certainly find a place to spend your money, apparently it is impossible to buy anything else in the center of Florence, perhaps we are supposed to even start eating these for breakfast... Leonardo From awootten at nrao.edu Mon Jul 10 16:58:33 2006 From: awootten at nrao.edu (Al Wootten) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:58:33 -0400 Subject: [asac] Telecon 1500 UT 2006 July 5 In-Reply-To: References: <57070.192.33.115.212.1152070448.squirrel@webmail.gb.nrao.edu> Message-ID: <17586.49017.837539.291670@polaris.cv.nrao.edu> Ryohei Was the director of NINS who signed the agreement the same person as NINS President Yoshiro Shimura, whose name I obtain from the NINS website? If you have the name of the person who signed, I would appreciate that information. Kawabe Ryohei writes: > > 1. Finally, the director of NINS (National Institute of Natural > Sciences) signed the ALMA agreement yesterday! This is a historical > milestone for ALMA; the trilateral ALMA gets stated! I have inspected the ACA location document in DAR. I expect approval soon. Clear skies, Al +--------------------------------------------------------+ | Alwyn Wootten (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/) | | Project Scientist, Atacama Large Millimeter Array/US | | Astronomer, National Radio Astronomy Observatory | | 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475, USA | | (434)-296-0329 voice Help us build The ALMA| | (434)-296-0278 FAX {> {> {> {> | +----------------------------------^-----^-----^-----^---+ From kawabe at nro.nao.ac.jp Mon Jul 10 22:11:15 2006 From: kawabe at nro.nao.ac.jp (Kawabe Ryohei) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:11:15 +0900 Subject: [asac] Telecon 1500 UT 2006 July 5 In-Reply-To: <17586.49017.837539.291670@polaris.cv.nrao.edu> Message-ID: Dear Al, Yes, NINS President Yoshiro Shimura singed the agreement. Regards, Ryohei On 06.7.11 5:58 AM, "Al Wootten" wrote: > Ryohei > > Was the director of NINS who signed the agreement the same person > as NINS President Yoshiro Shimura, whose name I obtain from the NINS > website? If you have the name of the person who signed, I would appreciate > that information. > > Kawabe Ryohei writes: >> >> 1. Finally, the director of NINS (National Institute of Natural >> Sciences) signed the ALMA agreement yesterday! This is a historical >> milestone for ALMA; the trilateral ALMA gets stated! > > I have inspected the ACA location document in DAR. I expect approval soon. > > Clear skies, > Al > +--------------------------------------------------------+ > | Alwyn Wootten (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/) | > | Project Scientist, Atacama Large Millimeter Array/US | > | Astronomer, National Radio Astronomy Observatory | > | 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475, USA | > | (434)-296-0329 voice Help us build The ALMA| > | (434)-296-0278 FAX {> {> {> {> | > +----------------------------------^-----^-----^-----^---+ > > From lt at arcetri.astro.it Mon Jul 17 09:10:03 2006 From: lt at arcetri.astro.it (Leonardo Testi) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:10:03 +0200 Subject: [asac] ASAC face to face logistics Message-ID: <196CE196-8C97-4760-927F-A71668994104@arcetri.astro.it> Hi all, I reserved a room for the ASAC meeting at the Convitto della Calza (www.calza.it) a few rooms are avvailable at the meeting center for the nights of Sep 15 and Sep 16 (a larger number for Sep 16 only). All the hotels are at walking distance from the center. Please let me know if you are having any problems with the Hotel reservations (note that some of the options were expiring this week). Those of you who would like to stay at the meeting center, please drop me a note (with the expected dates of arrival/departure). Leonardo ----------------------------------------- Hi all, (John, I seem to have lost the list of invitees, please forward this info along with the invitation or just resend me the names) as I mentioned at the telecon, it is difficult to find rooms in Florence for the weekend of Sep 16/17. I have pre-reserved a number of rooms in the following Hotels. All these are very close to the location of the conference center where I am trying to book a room for us (few min walking). You need to contact the Hotels directly and define the dates of your stay, I have pre-booked the rooms for the nights 15-16-17. Remember to mention that you are from the ALMA meeting group. Hotel Classic - has parking, very few rooms available tel +39055229351 fax. +39055229353 www.classichotel.it Hotel Annalena tel +39055222402 fax. +39055222403 www.hotelannalena.it Hotel Boboli tel. 0552298645 fax +390552337169 www.hotelboboli.com I am also looking for other possibilities and hope to send more options in a few days. The conference center may have a small number of rooms available for the nights 15-16 and some more for 16 only, so if you are planning to leave on sunday evening this is a good possibility. Please let me know if this may work for you. Traveling info. If you cannot find a convenient connection to Florence, I mentioned a few weeks ago that one possibility could be to fly to Pisa. Within Pisa airport there is a train station (Pisa Aeroporto) which allows a connection to Florence main station (Firenze S.M.N.). Sometimes the connection is direct, sometimes a change in Pisa Centrale is needed. Direct trains from Pisa Aeroporto to Firenze S.M.N. on Sept 15 are at: 10:42, 11:43, 12:43, 17:53, 18:43, 19:53. You can check the complete timetable at: http://www.trenitalia.it/en/index.html (be sure to enter the exact station names as above). Touristic info. Many state museums will close on MONDAY, e.g. the Galleria degli Uffizi. If enough people are interested, we can try to organize a visit to the Uffizi and the Corridoio Vasariano on Sunday afternoon. The Corridoio Vasariano is a long passage that was used to link the Medici Palace (Palazzo Pitti in oltrarno) with Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi (the government offices). It runs over the Old Bridge and offers a very unusual view of Florence. The Museum of history of science, which holds an interesting Astronomical collection with some Galileo's instruments, is closed on Sunday. If you need expensive shoes, purses or clothes, you will certainly find a place to spend your money, apparently it is impossible to buy anything else in the center of Florence, perhaps we are supposed to even start eating these for breakfast... Leonardo From jsr at mrao.cam.ac.uk Tue Jul 18 05:51:15 2006 From: jsr at mrao.cam.ac.uk (John Richer) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:51:15 +0100 Subject: [asac] DRSP 2.0 Message-ID: Dear ASAC members, For our information, I enclose a message from Michiel Hogerheijde regarding input to the revised Design Reference Science Plan (DRSP). I'm sure he would welcome input from ASAC members. While I am writing, let me encourage you to fix up your September travel plans as soon as possible for the Face to Face meeting. Regards, John ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:14:28 +0200 From: Michiel Hogerheijde To: ajb at astro.umd.edu, jsr at mrao.cam.ac.uk Subject: DRSP 2.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (Aplogies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail.) Dear all, Following the suggestion from ASAC, the ALMA Design Reference Science Plan (DRSP) is being extended to include ALMA bands 4, 5, and 8, and ACA. I am approaching you because you are the author of one or more projects in the original DRSP (1.0). I would like to ask you if you could review your project, taking into account the increased capability of ALMA as well as evolving science questions. Entirely new projects can of course also be submitted. You can find more information at http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~alma/drsp.shtml which also includes all projects from DRSP 1.0. Even if you foresee no updates for your project, I would appreciate if you could resubmit your previous project with the slightly revised project 'template', which can be found at the same web site. This should involve no more than simple cut-and-paste, and providing a small amount of additional information. This additional information is highly valuable for later estimates of, for example, average and peak data rates and other 'derivatives' of the DRSP. As for DRSP 1.0 there are 'coordinators' for the various topics; see the list on the web site. Feel free to contact your coordinator or myself with questions. And expect your coordinator to contact you as well. I would greatly appreciate receiving your updates and new projects by OCTOBER 1 2006. Thank you very much in advance for your time. With kind regards, Michiel Hogerheijde - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - - DRSP 2.0: For DRSP 2.0 new projects can be suggested that make use of any of the bands 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9, and existing projects can be updated to make use of new capabilities or to reflect progress in science questions. Projects can also make use of the ACA, either as a stand-alone array or through ACA-baseline_ALMA cross-correlation. In addition, authors of existing DRSP projects are encouraged to updated their projects using the DRSP 2.0 form, which contains a few additional questions, including the required calibration accuracy. - - Template: The template for DRSP 2.0 is available on the web, alongside other information (e.g., DRSP 1.0, and the calibration requirements for these projects filed in 2004) at http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~alma/drsp.shtml - - Timescale: The foreseen time line is as follows: 1 July 2006 : Announcement of DRSP 2.0 1 October 2006: DRSP projects due 1 November 2006: Due date review of the the projects by members of ESAC, ASAC, and ANASAC (tbc) 15 November 2006: Reply by DRSP authors to reviews due 15 December 2006: Final DRSP 2.0 on the web, and summarized in a report to ASAC - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- End of forwarded message ------- From awootten at nrao.edu Mon Jul 31 10:03:46 2006 From: awootten at nrao.edu (Al Wootten) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:03:46 -0400 Subject: [asac] ASAC telecon 2 August postponed until 9 August. Message-ID: <17614.3522.524981.769074@polaris.cv.nrao.edu> Folks, John Richer is in Chile this week with the British broadsheet journalists. There will be an ALMA Board telecon on 3 August. We propose postponing the ASAC telecon which would have been held Weds 2 August until one week later, Weds 9 August. The ESAC meets face-to-face on 6 September, which would normally be the date of the next ASAC telecon. Is 1330UT on Tuesday, 5 September acceptable? Clear skies, Al +--------------------------------------------------------+ | Alwyn Wootten (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/) | | Project Scientist, Atacama Large Millimeter Array/US | | Astronomer, National Radio Astronomy Observatory | | 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475, USA | | (434)-296-0329 voice Help us build The ALMA| | (434)-296-0278 FAX {> {> {> {> | +----------------------------------^-----^-----^-----^---+