[mmaimcal] Meeting

[Harvey S. Liszt]

I think we should simply sign over the ALMA budget to the
world's airlines, hotels, and conference venues now, instead 
of waiting years for the money to be exhausted by travel to 
individual organizational meetings held for the purpose of
descoping the project.

regards, Harvey
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Al Wootten wrote:
> 
> 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


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