[mmaimcal] June 6, 2005 BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
Al Wootten
awootten at nrao.edu
Wed Jun 8 13:20:03 EDT 2005
Folks,
Comments, corrections, or ? Thanks, Al
BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
June 6, 2005 - June 20, 2005
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Fred Lo, Director of NRAO, announced that Adrian Russell is being named as
North American Project Director for ALMA at the NRAO. As such, he will have
oversight responsibility for both the NA ALMA Project Office for ALMA
construction, for which he remains NA Project Manager, and the NA ALMA
Science Center while ALMA is still under construction.
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Antony Davies, ALMA/NA Controller, announced the appointment of Stefan
Michalski to the role of Planner/Scheduler for the ALMA Project, based
in Charlottesville as part of the NRAO Program Office.
Stefan joins us with significant experience from two challenging roles:
the oil industry, where he has been working as a planner/scheduler for
major maintenance projects, and the nuclear power industry where he was
in a similar role supporting major decommissioning and spent fuel
storage projects. Stefan will join the team in Charlottesville
immediately after the July 4th Holiday Weekend; his email and telephone
contact details will be passed out as soon as they are available.
Stefan will report to A. Davies for program direction.
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At the 25 May Change Control Board meeting, the 64 antenna correlator
(with tunable filter bank) requirements document was approved, as was
the Science Specifications and Requirements document as updated.
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http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html
See also the ALMA Calendar overview at:
https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/AlmaCalendar
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General Happenings
OSF: Expansion of the ALMA Camp to 30 beds is substantially complete.
11 potential bidders for the OSF technical facilities visited the site
on 25 May. Authorization was given by the ESO Finance Council for road
construction above 23 km; expected start is 1 July. There are 27 persons
working at the site.
AOS: Construction expected to commence August 2005.
ATF: Testing of new ALMA Common Software installation continues.
AOC: Computing IPT CDR3 under way. Andreas Wicenec visiting.
NTC: The first prototype tunable filter bank card has been received and is under
test in the test fixture. The ACA Correlator review in Tokyo is reported to
have gone very well.
NAASC: Planning for the workshop "From Z to A: Z-Machines to ALMA" continues;
Science Organizing Committee formed. Meeting dates are tentatively
January 13-14, the Friday and Saturday immediately after the Washington,
DC AAS meeting.
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DAILY CALENDAR (Times EDT ) see
https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/AlmaCalendar
Mon 6 June
9:30 AM-10:30 AM: North American Project Office Meeting
10:30 AM-11:30 AM: JAO IPT Telecon
Tue 7
10:30 AM-11:30 AM: ASAC Telecon
4:00 PM-5:00PM: NAScienceIPT teleconference (open to all interested
parties) (434)296-7082
Agenda: https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/10May05A
Archive: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/
Wed 8
11:00AM: SSR Telecon
2:00PM- 3:00PM: NAASC Meeting
Thu 9
Fri 10
Sat 11
Sun 12 ANASAC Face-to-Face CfA, Cambridge
Mon 13
9:30 AM-10:30 AM: North American Project Office Meeting
10:30 AM-11:30 AM: JAO IPT Telecon
Tue June 14
10:30 AM-11:30AM: ALMA ScienceIPT teleconference
Agenda: https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/10May05A
Archive: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/
Wed 15
Thu 16
9:30 AM-11:00 AM: Management IPT Teleconference
Fri 17
Sat 18
Sun 19
****************************** UPCOMING EVENTS ******************************
ALMA Calendar--see also https://wiki.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/NAASC
* June 5-6 -- ESO Council
* June 12 -- 1-5pm ANASAC Face-to-Face CfA, Cambridge
* June 13 - 16 Workshop on submillimeter wavelength astronomy in
Cambridge. For more information, log onto the event website:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/smast05.
* June 20 -- Extraordinary Meeting, ESO Finance Committee
* June 21-22 -- ALMA Board Meeting, The Hague, Netherlands
* June 21-24 -- Bands 4 & 8 PDRs, Tokyo
* Jul 3-4 -- Deep Impact probe impact of comet Temple 1.
* Jul 6-7 -- Front End IPT delta PDR, Garching
* Sep 4-5 -- Tentative ASAC Meeting, Los Angeles
* Oct 6 -- Rolling Stones come to Scott Stadium, Charlottesville
******************************* TECHNICAL NEWS *******************************
ALMA Memo # 521: Joint Distribution of Atmospheric Transparency and Phase
Fluctuations at Chatnantor
Authors: Larry D'Addario and Mark Holdaway
Abstract: The cumulative joint probability distribution of path delay
fluctuations and opacity at the ALMA telescope site near Chatnantor,
Chile has been derived from six years of site test data
View a pdf version of ALMA Memo #521:
http://www.alma.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/alma521/memo521.pdf
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