[mmaimcal] RE: June 6, 2005 BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
Adrian Russell
arussell at nrao.edu
Wed Jun 8 14:18:43 EDT 2005
Fine by me
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Wootten [mailto:awootten at nrao.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 1:20 PM
> To: mmaimcal at nrao.edu; Adrian Russell; tbeasley at nrao.edu
> Subject: June 6, 2005 BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
>
> Folks,
>
> Comments, corrections, or ? Thanks, Al
>
> BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
> June 6, 2005 - June 20, 2005
>
> ******************************** THIS
> FORTNIGHT*********************************
> 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.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Past issues of this Calendar may be viewed at
> http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html
> See also the ALMA Calendar overview at:
> https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/AlmaCalendar
> **************************************************************
> *****************
> 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.
> **************************************************************
> *****************
> 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
> ******************************ALSO OF
> INTEREST*******************************
>
> **************************************************************
> ****************
> Please send information for upcoming calendars by Friday
> evening of the preceding biweekly period to Jennifer
> Neighbours or Al Wootten via e-mail (jneighbo at nrao.edu or
> awootten at nrao.edu).
>
> The calendar will be issued between late Friday and sometime
> on Monday by e-mail to all NRAO scientific staff members and
> anyone else interested. A specific mailing list, alma-info,
> has been created for anyone wishing to receive it.
> Past issues are available at
> http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html
>
>
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