[mmaimcal]BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
Al Wootten
awootten at cv.nrao.edu
Tue Aug 3 10:59:00 EDT 2004
BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
August 2 - August 16, 2004
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Bob Freund, NRAO employee for 30 years and key ALMA contributor, will be leaving
NRAO 2004 August 6. We wish him all the best; ALMA will certainly miss him.
Angel Otarola will be continuing his studies at the University of Arizona.
We hope to welcome him back when he completes this next phase of his career.
Andrea Vaccari will be joining the ALMA front end group at the NRAO Technology
Center this week, from Tucson. Welcome to Charlottesville, Andrea!
Michael Lacasse, from Green Bank, also joins the ALMA team at the NTC--welcome
Michael!
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ALMA Town Hall meeting planned for the 205th AAS meeting in San Diego 1:00pm
Tues 11 Jan 2005.
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Past issues of this Calendar may be viewed at
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html
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General Happenings
Chile: ALMA Camp is basically finished, pending beautification (painting, etc.)
for environmental compliance, now uder way. Full catering services for
the ALMA camp are scheduled to start in August/September 2004 after
arrival of the kitchen equipment. ALMA OSF Communications installations
completed and working. They include file servers, VPN server, VoIP phones,
Wireless connectivity with firewall.
TUC: LO Review meeting to be scheduled in Tucson end of August. ALMA System Technical
Requirements document has been approved. The RF Simulator is undergoing
detailed tests. Both First LO Driver assemblies have been locked to an
optical reference and have been under reliable computer control.
NAASC: Scott Ransom has joined us as an Assistant Scientist.
NTC: NRAO has been invited to witness the qualification testing of the preproduction
cyrostat, which has finally commenced at RAL. A first Band 6 cartridge
structure has been shipped to NRAO; received 29 July and is undergoing testing.
AOC: A sine-wave signal was passed to the DTS formatter and transmitter, through
fiber on 3 colors to the DTS receiver, and processed through the correlator
to yield sample statistics and spectra. This first end-to-end test of the
digital system was successful.
DAILY CALENDAR (Times EDT)
Mon 02 Aug 10:30 AM-12:00 PM: JAO / IPT Teleconference
Tue 03 4:00 PM-5:00 PM: NAScienceIPT teleconference (open to all interested
parties) (434)296-7082
Agenda: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/
Wed 04
Thu 05 8:00 AM-9:00 AM: ALMA Board Teleconference
8:30 AM-10:00 AM: JAO Teleconference
Fri 06
Sat 07
Sun 08
Mon 09 1:00 PM-2:30 PM: NA DH Teleconference
Tue 10 10:30 AM-12:00 PM: ASAC Teleconference (may be rescheduled by a day)
4:00 PM-5:00 PM: NAScienceIPT teleconference (open to all interested
parties) (434)296-7082
Agenda: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/
Wed 11 11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Software Science Req. Group Teleconference
Thu 12 8:30 AM-10:00 AM: JAO Teleconference
Fri 13 Good Luck!
Sat 14
Sun 15
****************************** UPCOMING EVENTS ******************************
ALMA Calendar
* 5 August -- ALMA Board Telecon
* 10 August -- ASAC Telecon
* 23 September -- ALMA Board Telecon
* 24 September -- ALMA/EU Meeting, Garching
* 27-28 September -- ASAC face-to-face meeting, Charlottesville
* 29 Sept - 1 October -- face-to-face IPT Leads Meeting, Charlottesville
* 4-8 October -- The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Beginnings
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
* 11-12 Oct -- AMAC Meeting, Florence, Italy
* 11-13 Oct -- New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
* 27-29 Oct -- Dusty and Molecular Universe Paris
* 2-3 Nov -- ALMA Board Face-to-face Meeting, OSF, near San Pedro de Atacama
* 2 December -- ALMA Board Telecon
* 11 Jan 2005 - ALMA Town Meeting, AAS San Diego
* 27 Jan 2005 -- ALMA Board Telecon
******************************* TECHNICAL NEWS *******************************
Everyone has been busy writing quarterly, bimonthly, biweekly reports...
*******************************ALSO OF INTEREST*******************************
The deadline for SMA proposals for the next period starting on NOV 1, 2004 has been
set as THU, SEP 16, 2004. The SMA Steering committee has approved the opening
of about 10 percent of the observing time to outside investigators as principal
investigators (worldwide). Outside investigators will be required to have an
internal (i.e., black belt) collaborator (arranged by PI or assigned by TAC).
Proposals will be accepted for 230 and 345 GHz. "Key" projects will also be
considered. In general, projects from the current period that have not been run
by OCT 31, 2004 will not be carried over. The requested information in proposals
(wrt snr, uv coverage) will be changed in order to be able, if possible, to
schedule partial tracks, i.e., short projects. Check the "SMA Oberver Center"
Website for updated information or contact Dave Wilner, TAC chair. Note that,
in compliance with CfA policy, SMA data becomes publically available 15 months
after acquisition. People interested in projects at 690 GHz should contact
Dave Wilner. A concentrated 690 GHz campaign will be scheduled as a block effort
this coming winter.
SMA Observer Center (Katz)
Information about the Array and proposal preparation, and link
to the restricted Test Central website
http://sma1.sma.hawaii.edu
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(jbauer at nrao.edu or awootten at nrao.edu).
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