SMA 2010 Advisory Committee Meeting

Tuesday 12^th October 2010

08:45	Executive Session
09:10	Tour of Control Room, Remote Observing	Shelbi Hostler
09:30	Introductory remarks and charge to the committee	Charles Alcock
09:40	Overview since last meeting	Raymond Blundell
10:10	Metrics (proposals, statistics, data archive, etc.)	Qizhou Zhang
10:30	Break
10:45	Upgrades in performance since last meeting
	Receivers, IF Bandwidth	Edward Tong (25)
	Atmospheric phase monitor	Robert Kimberk (15)
	Atmospheric phase correction	Scott Paine (15)
11:40	Lab Tour and View Posters
12:00	Lunch, meet Post Docs & Students
13:30	Executive Session (2^nd Floor)
14:00	Future Committee Recommendations	Giovanni Fazio
14:20	SMA potential in the ALMA era
	Current plans	Ray Blundell (10)
	Receivers	Edward Tong (20)
	Signal transmission and correlator	Robert Wilson (20)
15:10	Break
15:30	Science Highlights I
	Solar System Studies	Arielle Moullet (15)
	Planet Forming Disks	Sean Andrews (15)
	Disk Chemistry	Karin Oberg (15)
	Extragalactic Science	Sergio Martin Ruiz (20)
16:35	Executive Session
18:40	Dinner

Wednesday 13^th October 2010

08:30	Executive Session
09:00	Science Highlights II
	Galactic Center	Jim Moran (20)
	Massive Stars	Steven Longmore (20)
	Massive Stars	Izaskun Jiminez Sierra (15)
	Massive Stars	Roberto Galvan Madrid (15)
	Evolved Stars	Nimesh Patel (25)
10:35	Break
10:50	Near-term opportunities
	Polarimetry	Ram Rao (20)
	Flux monitoring and Herschel follow-up	Mark Gurwell (30)
	VLBI	Shep Doeleman (20)
12:00	Executive Session & Lunch
14:30	Feedback to the SMA

Last updated 10/08/10