[mmaimcal] FYI: Appointment of ALMA Deputy Project Manager

[Al Wootten]

The ALMA Director is pleased to announce that Dr. Tetsuo Hasegawa has 
been appointed Deputy Project Manager of the Atacama Large 
Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) effective November 1st, 2008. 
Dr. Hasegawa's appointment follows a search by an international committee.

Dr. Hasegawa has considerable experience in management of astronomical 
projects, as well as a distinguished academic career.  He has been 
serving as ALMA Interim Project Manager since May 2008.  Before coming 
to Chile, Dr. Hasegawa was ALMA Project Director and Project Manager at 
the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

Dr. Hasegawa holds a Ph.D. in Science from the University of Tokyo, 
where he taught at the Institute of Astronomy (1988-2000) and Nobeyama 
Radio Observatory (1980-1988).  He specialized in interstellar medium 
physics and has published extensively on this and other topics.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA), an
international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, Japan and
North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile.  The ALMA
Board, consisting of members representing the partners, has created the
Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) in Chile. The JAO is responsible for the
overall leadership and management of construction, commissioning and
operations of ALMA. ALMA is funded in Europe by the European
Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, in
Japan by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) in
cooperation with the Academia Sinica in Taiwan and in North America by
the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the
National Research Council of Canada (NRC).  ALMA construction and
operations are led on behalf of Europe by ESO, on behalf of Japan by the
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and on behalf of North
America by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which is
managed by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI).