Swiss ALMA Community Day 2017

Bern, 03 April 2017

This event has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730562 [RadioNet].

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), C. Padilla

Motivation

Programme

Place & date

Accomodation

Registration

Motivation

The next Call for Proposals for observing time with ALMA (Cycle 5) will be issued in March 2017. The deadline for proposals is expected to be on 20 April 2017, with observations starting in October 2017. For more details, please see the ALMA Cycle 5 Pre-announcement and the Additional Information for Cycle 5 Proposals.

To prepare the local astronomical community for the Cycle 5 proposal deadline, the German ARC node organizes ALMA Community Days at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie in Bonn on 27/28 March 2017 and at the Center for Space and Habitability in Bern on 03 April 2017 in collaboration with the hosting institutes.

While these events are open to all ALMA users and prospective ALMA users, preference will be given to astronomers from the local community (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

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Programme

The morning (09:00-13:00) will be dedicated to an introduction to radio interferometry and practical information related to ALMA and the upcoming proposal deadline.

In the afternoon (14:00-17:00), there will be hands-on tutorials at two levels:
- at level 1, the participants learn how to use the ALMA-OT to plan and propose for observations
- at level 2, the participants work on their own projects with technical support by experienced ALMA staff

The detailed programme can be found here.

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Place/date

The Swiss Community Day will take place at the Center for Space and Habitability of the University of Bern on 03 April 2017. Directions to the institute can be found here.

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Accomodation

If you need accomodation in Bern, you may want to consult our list of hotels.

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Registration

Registration to the Swiss ALMA Community Day 2017 is now closed!

If you have any questions, please contact us at arc@astro.uni-bonn.de

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