[mmaimcal] Meeting

[Al Wootten]

ACC Meeting in Tokyo; Formation of Expanded ACC

    A resolution was signed by Dr. Cesarsky, Chair of the ACC, Dr.
Eisenstein, Vice Chair of the ACC and Dr. Kaifu, Director-General of
NAO-J, concerning the Partnership for planning the Atacama Large
Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA).  One aspect of this resolution
was that a Japanese Delegation will, with immediate effect, participate
in the work of the ACC through an expanded ALMA Coordinating Committee. 
Members of this expanded ACC for Japan were announced as M. Shibata
(MEXT), T. Godai (Director, Japanese Space Commission), H. Okuda (ISAS),
Y. Tanaka (Board of Councilors, NAO-J), N. Kaifu (Director-General of
NAO-J), S. Ikeuchi (Science Council of Japan) and Kodaira (President,
General Research University).  It seems to me there should be six
perhaps, not seven names here so perhaps I have erred in this list by
being too inclusive. Please see the press release.

The AEC/ALG and IPT leaders will meet in Paris on 10-11 April to
incorporate Japan into the Project planning.  Ishiguro and Kawabe are the
JP representatives to the Expanded AEC.

Catherine Cesarsky, ACC Chair. directed the project leaders to 
concoct a plan for a minimal
project, apropos to NSF's purported desire to cost things out at somewhere
around $660M, with a plan for augmentation of this up to the full
1.5*(554.2)*.9 budget which we had thought possible previously.  This is to
be done by 11-12 June for review in Garching by the ACC.  So the dream
remains...

The E-ACC will meet in Munich 11-12 June to discuss this and planning
for phase 2.  They will meet again in October, after an ASAC meeting in
September.  

We will discuss these and other matters (Calibration meeting
particularly) at the usual Tuesday meeting.

 One versio of a draft Calibration Meeting agenda may be found at:
<a href="http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~jsr/alma/calpdr/calibrationmeetingplan.html">the plan</a>.

Brian wrote a memo for the ASAC discussion on Data Manipulation plans;
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/Computing_2001-04-12_ASAC.htm

Clear skies,
Al