[asac][almanews]SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT ALMA Science Workshop May 14 - 15, 2004 U. Md.
Al Wootten
awootten at nrao.edu
Fri Mar 19 10:52:45 EST 2004
ALMA Science Workshop
May 14 - 15, 2004
College Park, Maryland
WWW Site http://www.nrao.edu/almaworkshop
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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
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DEADLINE DATES to REMEMBER
15 April Deadline for $150 pre-registration
15 April Deadline for submission of abstracts.
14 May Meeting begins (8 am).
Meeting Banquet and Cash Bar Discussion.
15 May Meeting ends, lunch begins (12:30 pm)
The 'ALMA Science Workshop' meeting
will take place on 14-15 May 2004 at the University of Maryland
Inn and Conference Center
under sponsorship of Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), the National
Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the University of Maryland
Department of Astronomy. Material on the ALMA Project may be found on the
web at URL http://www.alma.nrao.edu/
If you have not yet registered, please do so, as fees will increase after
15 April, 2004. You may do this over the Web at the site whose URL is
given above.
In this announcement we include information on registration, the format
of the meeting, information on abstracts and the Proceedings, the
hotel and banquet arrangements, some travel information, and a summary of
important deadlines. This announcement will be available at the WWW site,
with updated information as available.
http://www.nrao.edu/almaworkshop/
This email is addressed to all of those who have registered, who are on one
of the organizing committees, who have been invited to present a paper
at the conference, or who have previously expressed interest in the ALMA
project.
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REGISTRATION
The registration fee is $150 before 15 April, rising to $180 after that date.
You may register at the URL
http://www.astro.umd.edu/alma/registration.html
Please do so if you have not already.
On Friday evening, 14 May, there will be a banquet at the Inn and Conference
Center. All meals, including this one, are included in the conference
registration fee. You may pay by check made payable to:
University of Maryland
If you plan to attend the Conference, please send a printout of the
registration form, with payment, to:
ALMA Science Workshop
Astronomy Department
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
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MEETING FORMAT
In October 1999, a meeting was held in Washington, D.C. to bring together
scientists working on the development of what would become ALMA to review
the scientific program planned for the array and how that program
interacted with the science goals of other astronomical facilities
contemporaneous with it. The results of that meeting were published in
Science with ALMA, ASP Conference Series Volume 235. Much of the research
planned for ALMA at that meeting, augmented by material in the ESO Science
Case for ALMA (http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/science/alma-science.pdf)
has appeared in the ALMA Design Reference Science Plan (DRSP), a
collection of experiments planned for the fully operational
ALMA which was recently presented by the ALMA Project and which may be
inspected at http://www.alma.nrao.edu/science/
The ALMA prototype antenna has made its first images; groundbreaking has
occurred in Chile; NRAO's Charlottesville facilities are being revamped
for ALMA support as the North American ALMA Science Center and initial
ALMA Operations funding is an element of the
President's budget for NRAO recently delivered to Congress. The focus of
the workshop will be on ALMA and its scientist users.
Astronomers are invited to discuss
* ALMA's scientific goals and how best to enable them,
* Science goals which might be accomplished during the ALMA Early Science Phase
* The face ALMA presents to its scientists users through the North
American ALMA Science Center.
* Prioritization of the receiver bands for which funding will come during
operations--those at 31-45 GHz, 68-90 GHz and 163-211 GHz.
The conference will be organized
into non-paralleled plenary sessions that are each about 2-½ hours in
duration beginning each day, and one paralleled workshop session on
individual topics on Friday afternoon.
During the Friday Plenary session there will be discussion of ALMA and the
Design Reference Science Plan, followed by talks on main ALMA science themes:
o Galaxies and Cosmology: A. Blain (Caltech) (40 minutes)
o Star and Planet Formation: N. J. Evans (U. Texas) (40 minutes)
o Stars and Their Evolution: M. Meixner (STScI) (20 minutes)
o Solar Systems Near and Far: M. Gurwell (CfA) (20 minutes)
During the Friday workshop sessions, there will be discussion of the science
cases, including presentations on current research by those present
if they wish. ALMA will begin observations as soon as enough antennas are
available to make that attractive--most likely with 6 antennas by 2008.
An overview of what that skeletal ALMA could be able to provide will be
presented for feedback on whether that set of observing modes is optimal,
or whether some effort should be expended on a somewhat different
mode mix. Users will be asked for input on Early Science projects which
would be interesting to them, as ALMA plans to develop an Early Science
Plan to complement the DRSP (which refers only to full operation of ALMA).
This will be followed by the Poster Session and Banquet, after which
Paul vanden Bout will relate "The Long Random Walk to ALMA".
This will be followed by a cash bar and after-dinner discussion on the topic:
Building the ALMA User community: Funding, faculty, facilities
On Saturday, those present will again meet in plenary session for presentation
of poster summaries and reports from the working groups. This will be followed
by a discussion of plans for The North American ALMA Science Center.
Every poster author in each session will have the opportunity to orally
present one viewgraph (in one minute) to advertise his/her poster.
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Abstracts
Please provide an abstract for your poster. Please use LaTeX
style forms such as are used for the Star Formation Newsletter,
available at http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~reipurth/newsletter/macro.tex
A booklet of posters will be made available at the meeting.
REMINDER: Abstracts of your talks or posters are DUE NO LATER THAN:
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April 15th
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for publication in the booklet. The booklet which will be
made available to participants at the Conference and electronically on the Web
site of the Conference about one week in advance. A copy of the Conference
Abstracts will be provided to the Astrophysics Data System (ADS). These
will have to be prepared in LaTeX following instructions that are on the
WWW.
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Accommodations
The accommodations for the conference are conveniently located at the
University of Maryland Inn and Conference Center.
A special rate has been negotiated with the hotel. When reserving a
room, please be sure to mention that you want a room within the ALMA block.
The block name is
"ALMA Science Meeting"
and the room rate is $124.95. You may contact the hotel through
Mariott reservations:
Telephone: (800) 228-9290
or Facsimile: (301) 985-7445
The number of rooms at this special rate is limited in number and subject
to availability. BE SURE TO RESERVE A ROOM BEFORE 15 April.
Washington is very popular during April and May and rooms can be difficult
to find.
Details, including a map are available at the meeting WWW site:
http://www.nrao.edu/almaworkshop/accomodations.shtml
College Park, a suburb of Washington, D. C., is served by three major airports.
Most convenient to the workshop venue is
Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) Airport, which lies to the north,
and has convenient rail access to the city. BWI is served by Icelandic Airways
and by Southwest Airlines, along with most major airlines, and
frequently boasts the most reasonably priced
fares. More details may be found on the website at:
http://www.nrao.edu/almaworkshop/transportation.shtml
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