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University of California Observatories Advisory Committee
Fifty-seventh Meeting
09 October 2012, 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
UC Santa Cruz, ISB 102
Meeting Documents (pdfs)
AGENDA
09:30 AM Gathering with Coffee and Continental Breakfast
10:00 AM Background on recent events
- UCO Board: Status and Membership
- External Review Committee Letter (sent Oct. 6)
- Status of the UCO Director Search
- Newly announced Dorr/Beckwith Budge Meeting (Nov. 13?); Bridge Funding Status
- USA Today Ad
- Note: We will shortly have four committees: UCOAC, SPC, Director Search, Board
10:30 AM Executive Session
12:00 PM Strategies for Working with the UCO Board
- What questions the Board might ask, and how we would respond
- Proactive informatio strategies to present our point of view to Board
- Arguing the cost-effectivenes of UC OIR astronomy
- Role of UCOAC in dealing with Board
12:30 PM Gathering Lunch
12:45 PM Launching the UC OIR Strategic Plan
- Ideas for what the plan should contain (Faber)
- Facilities planning at UCSC (Bernstein via Faber)
- Draft committee membership (Barth)
- Draft charge (Faber and Barth)
01:45 PM Planning for the Keck SSC meeting, Nov 6/7 (Prochaska, Ghez, Marcy)
Suggested Topics:
- Current Keck segment repair plan and finances
- UC instrumentation priorities
- Financial strategy for new instrumentation
- Priority action items
02:45 PM Smaller discussion items: ~30 minutes
- Results from Mount Hamilton Workshop, Sept. 13/14 (Prochaska)
- Selling MH observing time: market research (Prochaska)
- Other revenue ideas (Wareham)
- Action items resulting from workshop (Prochaska)
03:15 PM Smaller discussion items cont'd: ~30 minutes
- UCO and Keck Development activities (everybody)
- Friends of Lick Board meeting, Sept. 15 (Filippenko)
- UCO-related development efforts on UC campuses
- What role should the UCOAC play in UCO development?
- Appoint a UCOAC development subcommittee?
- Function? Members?
03:45 PM Break
04:00 PM Smaller discussion items cont'd: 5 minutes each
- Keck 20th anniversary gala: update and UC goals for fund-raising (Ghez)
- Lick 125th anniversary gala: vision and starting to plan (Wareham, Faber)
- The most ambitious, interactive vision: downtown Silicon Valley
- Alternative smaller less costly format on MH
- Support from around system: UCOAC role
- Cost in $$$ and manpower: how to optimize bang for buck
04:45 PM Brief announcement items: 5 minutes each
- UCO Faculty Responsibilities List (Faber)
- What it is
- What faculty are doing
- Telescope and instrumentation updates:
- UCSC Labs (Rockosi)
- UCLA Labs (McLean)
- Lick APF (Faber): Readiness Review Nov. 16
- Keck (Ghez, Marcy)
- Keck segment repair; strategy to pay for
- TMT (Bolte via Faber)
- TAC News: Semester 2013A
- Balance of time of Keck I vs. Keck II
- Cjamges tp tje Lecl TAC structure and subpanel chairs (Faber)
- New TAC charter: 3 yr. terms, all UC Keck PIs eligible to serve
05:30 PM Meeting Adjourns (dinner in town for those who are staying)
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