South American Astronomy Coordination Committee (SAACC) Meeting 2020

South American Astronomy Coordination Committee (SAACC) is comprised of representatives from the various astronomy projects who are conducting projects or operating observatories in South America.

The SAACC is now in its 11th year and serves to provide input and advice to the AmLight PI and the Steering Committee on program and network needs. In addition to that, it also serves as a venue for coordinating the needs of these astronomical projects and institutions to improve their resource planning and implementation of operational connections between these distant facilities and users in the continental US and Latin-American Countries.

DATE

1. SAACC Meeting will be held on April 21-22 at 11:00 am till 3:00 pm
2. LSST NET Meeting (by invitation only) will be held on April 23-24 at 11:00 am till 3:30 pm

VENUE

The meeting will be online via ZOOM.

AGENDA

Corresponding time zones (start time):

Miami, USA Tue, Apr 21, 2020, at 11:00 am EDT
Los Angeles, USA Tue, Apr 21, 2020, at 8:00 am PDT
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Tue, Apr 21, 2020, at 12:00 noon BRT
Santiago, Chile Tue, Apr 21, 2020, at 11:00 am CLT
Berlin, Germany Tue, Apr 21, 2020, at 5:00 pm CEST
Paris, France Tue, Apr 21, 2020, at 5:00 pm CEST

Please email your presentation to vchergar at fiu.edu by April 15, 2020.

Tuesday, April 21, 2020
11:00 – Welcome

Session I: Science Requirements & Activities Updates

11:10 – Vera C. Rubin Observatory Construction, US-ELT (Jeffrey Kantor)
11:30 – Vera C. Rubin Observatory Operations (Bob Blum)
11:50 – NOIRLab (Mauricio Rojas)
12:10 – Gemini (Eduardo Toro)
12:30 – Refreshment Break
13:00 – NRAO (David Halstead, Adele Plunkett)
13:20 – ALMA (Giorgio Filippi -ESO, C. Saldias, N. Ovando -JAO/ADC)
13:40 – GMTO (Mauricio Pilleux, Sam Chan)
14:00 – Simons (Simone Aiola)
14:20 – ngVLA (Rob Selina)
14:40 – Open Discussion/Coordination

Wednesday, April 22, 2020
11:00 – Welcome

Session II: Providers updates
11:10 – AmLight1: International links (Jeronimo Bezerra)
11:30 – AmLight2: Performance monitoring (Renata Frez)
11:50 – REUNA (Albert Astudillo)
12:10 – ANSP (Luis Lopez)
12:30 – Refreshment Break
13:00 – RedCLARA (Luis Eliécer Cadenas)
13:20 – RNP (Michael Stanton, Eduardo Grizendi)
13:40 – NCSA (Matt Kollross)
14:00 – Internet2 (John Hicks)
14:20 – ESnet (Paul Wefel)
14:40 – Open Discussion/Coordination
15:00 – Adjourn

VIDEO CONFERENCE

The ZOOM details will be emailed.