ALMA Town Meeting

Monday, January 9, 2006, 12:30-1:30pm, Cotillion Ballroom

The purpose of this Town Meeting is to inform the membership of the status of the ALMA Project. By the time of the AAS meeting in Washington, the ALMA Prototype Interferometer at the VLA site will have produced its first fringes, the production antenna contract will have been let, and construction in Chile will have advanced substantially. Further, the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) will have begun initial operations in preparation for ALMA Early Science. At this proposed Town Meeting, the progress of ALMA construction and plans for the NAASC and Early Science will be presented, with time allocated for answering questions from the audience. Organized by Paul Vanden Bout, pvandenb@nrao.edu, K.Y. Lo, A. Beasley, A Wootten, and J. Hibbard, ANASAC Chair.