The Submillimeter Array


Advisory Committee Agenda, 2018

Tuesday 17th July 2018

08:30 Executive Session
09:00 Introduction & Welcome Charles Alcock
09:10 Status and developments since last meetingRay Blundell
09:50 SMA in the mm/submm landscapeDavid Wilner
10:10 Science metricsSridharan Tirupati Kumara
10:30 Coffee/Visit to the SMAControl RoomShelbi Schimpf
11:10 Science (EHT and Large Programs)
11:10 Imaging a blackholeKatie Bouman
11:30 CMZoomCara Battersby
11:50 MASSESMichael Dunham
12:10 Intensity MappingGarrett Keating
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Lab Tour
14:00 Hawaii Operations/StaffingSimon Radford
14:30 Ongoing UpgradesEdward Tong
15:30 Executive Session
16:00 Break for Posters and Reception
18:30 Dinner



Wednesday 18th July 2018

08:30 Executive 
09:00 Real-time SoftwareAttila Kovacs
09:30 RTDC data archiving and reductionHolly Thomas
09:45 Science (Early Career Astronomers)
09:45 Observing remnants of red novae: how do binaries merge?Tomek Kaminski
10:00 Planetesimal belts and the radius - stellar luminosity relationLuca Matra
10:15 A ~100pc scale view of CO j=2-1/j=1-0 in M51Maria Jesus Jiménez Donaire
10:30 SMA: from galaxies to circumstellar disksCharles Law
10:45 Coffee
11:00 CollaborationsQizhou Zhang
11:15 Longer-term upgrades: the wSMAPaul Grimes
11:45 Future wideband digital technology for the wSMAJonathan Weintroub
12:10 Beyond the wSMARay Blundell
12:30 Lunch with postdoctoral fellows and students
13:30 Executive Session
15:30 Feedback from the Committee (closed session)


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