[asac] Announcement

[Al Wootten]

Folks,

This announcement was found on the ALMA-J website, dated 2007 Feb 4 and
on the ESO website dated 2007 Feb 6.  As it is of possible interest,
I distribute it here.  

We are happy to announce the appointments of the remaining Key Staff of the 
Joint ALMA Office (JAO): Prof. Richard Hills as the ALMA Project Scientist, 
and Dr. Alison Peck as the Deputy Project Scientist. Richard Hills is 
Professor of Radio Astronomy, and a member of the Astrophysics Group, in the 
Physics Department of Cambridge University, UK. His work is well known to 
all who are in the field of millimeter and sub-millimeter-wave astronomy. 
Among the many topics that he has worked on with great distinction, Prof. 
Hills is especially well known as an expert in radio astronomical 
instrumentation, telescopes and interferometry. Dr. Alison Peck is a 
staff member of the Sub-Millimeter Array (SMA) at the Harvard-Smithsonian 
Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA. Dr. Peck is responsible for 
all science and observer scheduling at the SMA telescope on the summit of 
Mauna Kea, HI. As such, her responsibilities range from designing and 
implementing a system of dynamic scheduling, optimizing data taking and 
eduction procedures to outreach activities. We look forward to their 
leadership in, among other matters, the science commissioning and science 
verification of ALMA.
 
Catherine Cesarsky
Fred K. Y. Lo
Shoken Miyama
Massimo Tarenghi 

Clear skies,
Al
Al Wootten
Interim Project Scientist
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