From awootten at nrao.edu Mon Dec 1 10:17:54 2008 From: awootten at nrao.edu (Al Wootten) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:17:54 -0500 Subject: [asac] [almanews] FYI: "Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at High Angular Resolution" Message-ID: <18740.34.423081.42699@polaris.cv.nrao.edu> ********************************************************************************************************** First Announcement on "Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at High Angular Resolution" June 8-12, 2009 Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Sponsored by Academia Sinica ? Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics National Science Council National Astronomical Observatory of Japan National Radio Astronomical Observatory Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Co-hosted by The Astronomical Society of the Republic of China http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/taipei09 1. Motivation In recent years, the Submillimeter Array (SMA), the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI), and the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA), Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA) have bee producing exciting scientific results at arc-second or even sub arc-second resolution. At the same time, large single-dish telescopes, including Nobeyama 45 m, IRAM 30 m, CSO 10m, JCMT 15 m, NANTEN 4 m, ASTE 10m, APEX 12m, SPT 10m, GBT 100m, LMT 50m (near completion), CCAT 25m (under development), continue to push the frontier both in sensitivity and wavelength. In 2011, early science using ALMA may start, and in 2012, full operation is planned to start. It is, therefore, most timely for us to hold a conference in 2009 to review the latest findings, obtained through millimeter and submillimeter observations at high angular resolution, and to outline the road map guidin us towards the ALMA era. The topics to be addressed at the conference are: The solar system Galactic low-mass and high-mass star formation Outflows/Jets Protoplanetary disks/Debris disks Evolved stars Nearby galaxies Galactic center AGNs and ultra luminous galaxies High-Z galaxies Astrochemistry Instrumentation 2. Conference Organization The conference will consist of 5 full-day sessions covering the above-mentioned topics. We expect to accommodate a total number of 250 participants. We plan to have about 40 invited talks (~30 minutes each). In addition, short oral contributions (~20 minutes each) and poster presentations will be arranged. Since the time for talks is limited, poster presentations will play an important role at this conference. There will be no formal conference proceedings. However, we plan to make all the presentations, including posters, available at our conference website. 3. Invited Speakers (confirmed) Yuri Aikawa Dan Marrone Ray Blundell Nimesh Patel Bryan Butler Luis F. Rodr?guez Paola Caselli Kazushi Sakamoto Huei-Ru Chen Richard Schilizz Anne Dutrey Hsien Shang Josep Miquel Girart Leonard Testi Thijs de Graauw Din-Van Trung Frederic Gueth Wei-Hao Wang Myungshin Im Jonathan Williams David Jewitt David Wilner Ryohei Kawabe Masako Yamada Hyo-Ryeoung Kim Ji Yang Kotaro Kohno Min Yun Chin-Fei Lee Qizhou Zhang 4. Registration There will be a registration fee (150 USD/person for early registration and 200 USD/person for regular registration), which covers the abstract book, lunch boxes, coffee/snacks for breaks, and the conference banquet. The deadlines for the early and regular registrations are February 28, 2009 and April 30, 2009, respectively. Registration will start on December 15, 2008 via our conference website (http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/taipei09). 5. Abstract Submission All the participants are encouraged to present their latest scientific results at the conference. Abstracts of the presentations will be submitted through our conference website. Although we will try to accommodate as many talks as possible, a limited number of presentations will be selected for short oral contributions. The deadline for the abstract submission is March 31, 2009 6. Location and Accommodation The conference will be held in the newest conference hall on the main campu of the Academia Sinica (http://www.sinica.edu.tw), located on the eastern side of Taipei City, while your accommodation can be arranged in the downtown area so that it would be easy for you to explore Taipei City durin your free time. We will provide free shuttle buses (scheduled) between the hotels and the conference venue. For students and young scientists, low-cos accommodation on the campus of the Academia Sinica can be also arranged. More details on the accommodation will be provided in our conference website. 7. Science Organizing Committee (SOC) Chris Carilli Nagayoshi Ohashi Minho Choi Anneila Sargent Pierre Cox Leonardo Testi Anne Dutrey Min Yun Paul T. P. Ho (Chair) David Wilner Wing Ip Christine Wilson Ryohei Kawabe Satoshi Yamamot Karl Menten Ji Yang Lee Mundy 8. Local Organizing Committee (LOC) Cindy Chiu Patrick Koch Sheng-Yuan Liu (Chair) Chin-Fei Lee Yu-Nung Su Shigehisa Takakuwa 9. 2008-2009 Timeline December 15: Second Announcement and open registration February 28: End of early registration March 31: End of abstract submission April 30: End of regular registration May 15: Third announcement/Program available May 31: Final announcement June 07: Meeting 10. Questions Please send all your questions to our conference mail address: taiwan09soc at asiaa.sinica.edu.tw (to contact SOC members) taiwan09loc at asiaa.sinica.edu.tw (to contact LOC members) Also, please visit our conference website ( http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/taipei09) to find more information on the conference. 11. Additional Services We would be happy to make arrangements for you to extend your stay at ASIAA (http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw) or at other institutions in Taiwan before and/or after the conference. Please send your request to the LOC. -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Almanews mailing list Almanews at listmgr.cv.nrao.edu http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/almanews From awootten at nrao.edu Thu Dec 4 10:01:34 2008 From: awootten at nrao.edu (Al Wootten) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:01:34 -0500 Subject: [asac] FYI: ALMA and ELTs: A Deeper, Finer View of the Universe Message-ID: <4937F0CE.3080403@nrao.edu> First announcement for the workshop: ALMA and ELTs: A Deeper, Finer View of the Universe ESO Garching, March 24-27, 2009 The workshop aims at exploring the scientific synergies between ALMA and the up-coming giant optical/infrared telescopes (GMT,TMT,E-ELT) More information at: www.eso.org/almaelt2009 Organisers: L.Testi and M.Kissler-Patig on behalf of ESO ---------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION: Deadline - 15 December 2008 URL: http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/almaelt2009/registration.html RATIONALE: The main goal of the workshop is to bring the ALMA and ELT communities together, to identify the common science cases and to outline instrumentation/upgrade priorities for the ALMA and ELT facilities to support these. The product of the workshop will be a report (rather than proceedings). The report will, on the one hand, present the common science cases in the areas of: - fundamental physics, cosmology, and relics of the early Universe; - galaxy and ISM evolution; - star formation from re-ionization to the present; - solar systems near and far. On the other hand, the report will identify upgrade paths for ALMA and instrument priorities for the ELTs. The latter could be used as a feedback to the group investigating science with ALMA in the 2020 era, and to the instrumentation plans of the various ELTs. The representatives from the different ALMA partners and ELT projects are part of the Science Organising Committee. Thus, we believe that the workshop could become an international milestone for all concerned projects. The workshop is particularly timely, as it will feedback into the ALMA 2020 effort and the instrument suite selection of the E-ELT. SOC: J. Afonso (Lisboa Obs./ESAC) A. Blain (Caltech/ASAC) R. Gilmozzi (ESO/E-ELT) R. Hills (ESO/ALMA) R. Kudritzki (IfA/GSMT) P. McCarthy (Carnegie Obs./GMT) K. Morita (NAOJ/ALMA) S. Shectman (Carnegie Obs./GMT) D. Silva (NOAO/GSMT) C. Steidel (Caltech/TMT) A. Wootten (NRAO/ALMA) LOC: A. Calamida (ESO) M. Kissler-Patig (ESO) C. Stoffer (ESO) L. Testi (ESO) From rhills at alma.cl Mon Dec 8 13:10:51 2008 From: rhills at alma.cl (Richard Hills) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:10:51 +0000 Subject: [asac] ASAC telecon rescheduled Message-ID: <493D632B.2040104@alma.cl> Dear Colleagues, Those of you who are well organized will have noticed that we missed our scheduled telecon on 3rd Dec. This was entirely my fault - I was on holiday and completely failed to make the necessary arrangements. In fact we are still very much in the throes of a particularly dense period of meetings and reviews (presently the Annual External Review 2008) so last week would not have been a good time. The proposal is that we slip this by two weeks - i.e. to 14:30UT on Dec 17th. I hope that time will convenient for you. This will not in fact be a particularly critical meeting - mostly an update on recent progress and problems together with summaries of the outcomes of the numerous meetings and reviews - so if some people can't manage this time I don't think that is too serious. One topic that it would be useful to have some feedback on is the Updated Scientific Milestones document which was attached to my last message (but I have attached it again for convenience). The Board asked for your comments on that. If the ASAC is content to sign off on that document at this telecon that would be good but, if there is any question about it, we can go over the topic more carefully at our f2f meeting in Jan and include any recommendations in our report to the Board. Best Richard -- ******************************************************************* Richard Hills Phone: +56 2 467 6175 ALMA Project Scientist Fax: +56 2 467 6104 Av El Golf 40, Piso 18 Apmnt: +56 2 474 1642 Santiago, Chile Mobile +56 97 608 1582 ******************************************************************* -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Updated Scientific Milestones.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 55791 bytes Desc: not available URL: From awb at astro.caltech.edu Mon Dec 8 13:27:48 2008 From: awb at astro.caltech.edu (Andrew Blain) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:27:48 -0800 Subject: [asac] ASAC telecon rescheduled In-Reply-To: <493D632B.2040104@alma.cl> References: <493D632B.2040104@alma.cl> Message-ID: <54A91539-60B2-462E-8A0F-8C8D94DEA795@astro.caltech.edu> You well-organized folks should let me share the blame with Richard (who was on a much-deserved vacation). I must admit that I've relied on receipt of Al's agendas to pay attention to the ASAC call timetable. Please take a look at the Milestones document. Even if you can't make the call on 17th, please let me have comments in advance. I hope we can either approve the document, or focus our concerns when we're on the line on 17th. Andrew On Dec 8, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Richard Hills wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Those of you who are well organized will have noticed that we missed > our scheduled telecon on 3rd Dec. This was entirely my fault - I > was on holiday and completely failed to make the necessary > arrangements. > > In fact we are still very much in the throes of a particularly dense > period of meetings and reviews (presently the Annual External Review > 2008) so last week would not have been a good time. > > The proposal is that we slip this by two weeks - i.e. to 14:30UT on > Dec 17th. I hope that time will convenient for you. This will not > in fact be a particularly critical meeting - mostly an update on > recent progress and problems together with summaries of the outcomes > of the numerous meetings and reviews - so if some people can't > manage this time I don't think that is too serious. > > One topic that it would be useful to have some feedback on is the > Updated Scientific Milestones document which was attached to my last > message (but I have attached it again for convenience). The Board > asked for your comments on that. If the ASAC is content to sign off > on that document at this telecon that would be good but, if there is > any question about it, we can go over the topic more carefully at > our f2f meeting in Jan and include any recommendations in our report > to the Board. > > Best Richard > > -- > ******************************************************************* > Richard Hills Phone: +56 2 467 6175 > ALMA Project Scientist Fax: +56 2 467 6104 > Av El Golf 40, Piso 18 Apmnt: +56 2 474 1642 > Santiago, Chile Mobile +56 97 608 1582 > ******************************************************************* > Milestones.pdf>_______________________________________________ > Asac mailing list > Asac at listmgr.cv.nrao.edu > http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/asac From rhills at alma.cl Mon Dec 8 16:10:53 2008 From: rhills at alma.cl (Richard Hills) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:10:53 +0000 Subject: [asac] Face to face arrangements Message-ID: <493D8D5D.80502@alma.cl> Dear all, Something I should have added to my last message is that we are continuing the planning for the f2f meeting at the ALMA Operations Support Facility on Jan 28th and 29th. We should discuss the agenda during the telecon on 17th Dec but in outline I expect it to go as follows: Tuesday 27th afternoon fly from Santiago to Calama and then bus to San Pedro. Suitable flights leave SCL at 16:05 and 16:45. Wednesday 28th morning and early afternoon: Meeting at OSF. Wednesday late afternoon early evening: visit to technical facilities and to high site for those who want to. Thursday 29th morning and early afternoon: Meeting at OSF including conclusions and outline report. Thursday evening: Leave OSF at approx 3:30pm on bus to Calama. Suitable flights back to SCL leave Calama at 18:40 and 19:25. We will arrange these flights, buses, etc., when we know your requirements (e.g. let us know if you want to go up to San Pedro sooner than indicated above or stay longer). You should arrange your travel to and from Chile with your executive (ASIAA, ESO, NRAO, NROJ) and let us know your arrival dates and times and whether or not you will need accommodation in Santiago. Best Richard -- ******************************************************************* Richard Hills Phone: +56 2 467 6175 ALMA Project Scientist Fax: +56 2 467 6104 Av El Golf 40, Piso 18 Apmnt: +56 2 474 1642 Santiago, Chile Mobile +56 97 608 1582 ******************************************************************* From awootten at nrao.edu Mon Dec 15 10:41:27 2008 From: awootten at nrao.edu (Al Wootten) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:41:27 -0500 Subject: [asac] Telecon 2008-Dec-17 14:30 UT Message-ID: <18758.31399.167135.134416@polaris.cv.nrao.edu> Contact Information * 2008-Dec-17 14:30 UT * Note: Line noise may be muted by pressing *6 which works thru the call center. * Duration: 1 hr * USA Toll Free Number: 877-874-1919 * Toll Number: +1-203-320-9891 * Passcode: 185064 * Leader: Richard Hills Please find a working agenda on: https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/ASAC3Dec08Agenda All seasonal merriness, Al From awootten at nrao.edu Wed Dec 17 09:22:46 2008 From: awootten at nrao.edu (Al Wootten) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:22:46 -0500 Subject: [asac] Telecon in 8 minutes... Message-ID: <49490B36.1050903@nrao.edu> Contact Information * 2008-Dec-17 14:30 UT * Note: Line noise may be muted by pressing *6 which works thru the call center. * Duration: 1 hr * USA Toll Free Number: 877-874-1919 * Toll Number: +1-203-320-9891 * Passcode: 185064 Agenda: https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/ASAC3Dec08Agenda From cerni at damir.iem.csic.es Wed Dec 17 09:14:52 2008 From: cerni at damir.iem.csic.es (Jose Cernicharo) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:14:52 +0100 Subject: [asac] Telecon in 8 minutes... In-Reply-To: <49490B36.1050903@nrao.edu> References: <49490B36.1050903@nrao.edu> Message-ID: <20081217151452.phg73c2t4w08s4o4@damir.iem.csic.es> Dear Al I am in ESTEC for a Herschel meeting and I can not participate in the telecon. Cheers Pepe Cernicharo -- Prof. J. Cernicharo Laboratory of Molecular Astrophysics Department of Astrophysics CAB INTA Ctra de Torrej?n a Ajalvir, km 4 28850 Torrej?n de Ardoz, Madrid Spain Cellular : +34679470070 & +34626202121 Al Wootten ha escrito: > Contact Information > > * 2008-Dec-17 14:30 UT > * Note: Line noise may be muted by pressing *6 which works thru the > call center. > * Duration: 1 hr > * USA Toll Free Number: 877-874-1919 > * Toll Number: +1-203-320-9891 > * Passcode: 185064 > > Agenda: https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/ASAC3Dec08Agenda > _______________________________________________ > Asac mailing list > Asac at listmgr.cv.nrao.edu > http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/asac > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From rhills at alma.cl Sun Dec 21 15:52:39 2008 From: rhills at alma.cl (Richard Hills) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:52:39 +0000 Subject: [asac] Face to face arrangements In-Reply-To: <493D8D5D.80502@alma.cl> References: <493D8D5D.80502@alma.cl> Message-ID: <494EAC97.5020008@alma.cl> Dear All, One modification to the recommendations here. It has been explained to me that it is generally easier and often cheaper for you to have flights to Calama booked for you by the Executives, if possible at the same time as your inter-continental flights. If we do it then a complicated process of transferring the costs back to the different executives has to take place. So please try to make your own arrangements to get to Calama. The recommended flights are: 27th Jan LA 354 depart SCL 16:05 arrive Calama 18:15 and 29th Jan LA 355 depart Calama 18:40 arrive SCL 20:40 In both cases there is another flight 40 minutes later if those are full. Obviously if you want to come earlier or stay longer that is fine but please let us know. Buses between Calama and San Pedro will be arranged for the flights as needed. We have made reservations for what we hope are enough rooms in the Hosteleria in San Pedro for the two nights 27th and 28th - I am afraid that the accommodation in the OSF is too full. You will need to pay for your own rooms and then recover that as part of your travel claim from the appropriate executive. Please keep sending your detailed travel plans and in particular tell us what additional hotel bookings you need - e.g. in Santiago. Best Richard Richard Hills wrote: > Dear all, > > Something I should have added to my last message is that we are > continuing the planning for the f2f meeting at the ALMA Operations > Support Facility on Jan 28th and 29th. > > We should discuss the agenda during the telecon on 17th Dec but in > outline I expect it to go as follows: > > Tuesday 27th afternoon fly from Santiago to Calama and then bus to San > Pedro. Suitable flights leave SCL at 16:05 and 16:45. > > Wednesday 28th morning and early afternoon: Meeting at OSF. > > Wednesday late afternoon early evening: visit to technical facilities > and to high site for those who want to. > > Thursday 29th morning and early afternoon: Meeting at OSF including > conclusions and outline report. > > Thursday evening: Leave OSF at approx 3:30pm on bus to Calama. Suitable > flights back to SCL leave Calama at 18:40 and 19:25. > > We will arrange these flights, buses, etc., when we know your > requirements (e.g. let us know if you want to go up to San Pedro sooner > than indicated above or stay longer). You should arrange your travel to > and from Chile with your executive (ASIAA, ESO, NRAO, NROJ) and let us > know your arrival dates and times and whether or not you will need > accommodation in Santiago. > > Best Richard > -- ******************************************************************* Richard Hills Phone: +56 2 467 6175 ALMA Project Scientist Fax: +56 2 467 6104 Av El Golf 40, Piso 18 Apmnt: +56 2 474 1642 Santiago, Chile Mobile +56 97 608 1582 ******************************************************************* From ltesti at eso.org Sun Dec 28 13:35:05 2008 From: ltesti at eso.org (Leonardo Testi) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:35:05 +0100 Subject: [asac] Latest edition of European ALMA Newsletter now available Message-ID: <16CB548D-DCA7-465E-AFD8-3BB342AD8527@eso.org> Dear Colleague, The 16th edition of the European ALMA newsletter is now available from: http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/newsletter/2008/ The contents are: * Antenna pads and Optical Fibres racks at AOS * The first time or Otto * ALMA and Joint ALMA Office people * Farewell to the ATF * APEX Corner * Open Positions * Upcoming Events The newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF file. Please forward this message to interested colleagues. Best wishes for a relaxing holiday season and a great 2009, The ALMA newsletter editors, Leonardo Testi, Martin Zwaan, Carlos De Breuck, and Tom Wilson.