[mmaimcal] FYI: 13 Feb BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
Al Wootten
awootten at nrao.edu
Tue Feb 14 15:55:02 EST 2006
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BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
13 Feb 2006 - 27 Feb 2006
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The President's FY2007 budget was delivered on 7 February. An excerpt
from this dealing with ALMA may be found at:
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/NSFALMA-FY2007extract.pdf
$47,890,000 is requested for ALMA Construction. As may be seen in the
ALMA Funding Profile Table, ALMA Operations and Maintenance funds begin
to phase in in a major way for the first time in this budget.
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The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, a facility
with a great deal of scientific synergy with ALMA was zeroed out in the
FY07 budget request from the President. $48M had been expected for this
program.
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The ALMA Director is pleased to inform everyone
that Claus Dierksmeier has been appointed to become the Leader for
the ALMA Site IPT. Claus has accepted this nomination, and his
appointment is effective immediately. Claus has been easing into this
position since 2005 Aug 1, taking over Jörg Eschwey, who is gradually
retiring. Welcome, Claus! And thanks, Jörg, for the critical groundwork
you have laid.
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The Panel Report for the ACA System Preliminary Design Review held in
Nov. 10-11, 2005 at Mitaka, Tokyo, was submitted to the JAO 2006 Feb 7.
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Past issues of this Calendar may be viewed at
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html
See also the JAO ALMA Calendar overview at:
http://www.alma.cl/alma_project
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General Happenings
OSF: Retender bid opening for the OSF has been scheduled. Evaluation of
bids for 5-10 foundations in the Vertex laydown area proceeds. Road
construction is now at km 41. Contractor area earthwork to be completed
2006-Feb-15. There are 151 persons on the site of which 104 are in the
site lodging facilities.
AOS: 'Altiplanic Winter' has hit. Snow has blanketed the site for the
past several days, halting activity there. AOS Technical Building shell
to be finished 2006-Mar-20.
Santiago: 25 AIV positions approved for the 2006 hiring plan. Chilean
AIV hires to begin soon. Wilson arrives at JAO for PS turno duty 21 Feb.
TUC: Eric's Fine Food & Ice Cream at 1702 E. Speedway, birthplace of many
an astrophysical or astroinstrumental idea, and of "Gentle
Persuasion" ice cream, a concoction of oatmeal and prunes, is closing.
ATF: Preparations continue for optical pointing tests; AEM will conduct
tests of the AEC antenna in early March.
AOC: Testing of the analogue IF Processor & LO2 has begun in the PSI
system rack. After inspection and repair of many components, the
spontaneous rebooting of the AEC antenna ACU has desisted.
NTC: Band 3 (3mm) cartridge PAI scheduled at HIA for week of 6 March.
All bins and backplanes installed in Correlator Quadrant 2.
Erratum: the fiber length over which the photonics reference was
propagated was incorrectly reported last week; it was 15 km. 100fs
phase perfomance was demonstrated.
NAPO: A first earned value analysis report was issued
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DAILY CALENDAR (Times EDT ) see
https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/AlmaCalendar
Mon 13 Feb
Tue 14 Feb Valentine's Day
10:30 AM-11:30 AM: JAO IPT Telecon
4:00 PM-5:00 PM: NAScienceIPT teleconference (open to all interested
parties) (434)296-7082
Wed 15 Feb
3:30 pm: Astrochemistry Group Meeting, U. Va.
Thu 16 Feb
9:30 am: Management IPT telecon
Fri 17 Feb
Sat 18 Feb
Sun 19 Feb
Mon 20 Feb
President's Day Holiday, United States
Tue 21 Feb
10:30 AM-11:30 AM: JAO IPT Telecon
4:00 PM-5:00 PM: NAScienceIPT teleconference (open to all interested
parties) (434)296-7082
Wed 22 Feb Washington's Birthday
4:00 PM: ASAC Telecon
Thu 23 Feb
9:00 AM: ALMA Board telecon
Fri 24 Feb
2:00 PM: ANASAC Telecon
Sat 25 Feb
Sun 26 Feb
****************************** UPCOMING EVENTS ****************************
Feb 22 2100UT ASAC Telecon
Feb 23 1500UT ALMA Board telecon
Feb 24 1900UT ANASAC Telecon
March 21-22 all day AMAC Meeting Kyoto, Japan
March 23-24 all day ALMA Board Meeting Kyoto, Japan
June 13-14 all day ALMA Board Meeting OSF
November 9-10 all day ALMA Board Meeting Madrid TBD
Nov 13-16 all day Science with ALMA: a new era for Astrophysics Madrid
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ALMA presentations at the January URSI meeting are available on line through
links at https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/14Feb06Agenda
# Crystal's talk on submillimeter imaging (SMA & ALMA)
# Mark's talk on Fast Switching (ALMA)
# Sanjay's talk on high-dynamic range imaging
# Urvashi's talk on wide-band continuum imaging
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******************************ALSO OF INTEREST*****************************
SMA Call for Proposals
The Submillimeter Array (SMA), the radio interferometer on Mauna Kea built
by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute
of Astronomy and Astrophysics, makes available a fraction of the observing
time to principal investigators from the astronomical community (worldwide).
The proposal deadline is 9 March 2006 for the observing semester
1 May 2006 through 31 October 2006. More information, technical details,
and instructions and tools for proposal preparation and submission can be
found at http://sma1.sma.hawaii.edu/, the SMA Observer Center web site.
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Anne Dutrey informs us of a CNRS post-doctoral position at the Observatory of
Bordeaux. The position is opened for two years and will start on september
2006 at the Observatory of Bordeaux. The application deadline is June 2006.
The position is dedicated to the modelling of chemistry in proto-planetary
disks in order to interpret observational data obtained with the IRAM array.
Interested people can read the dedicated CNRS web page
http://www.k-projects.com/cnrs_postdocs/public/departement_details.php?IdDpt=9&Dep=SDU&NumOffre=2&Langue=en
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