[asac] [almanews] ALMA Special Session at June AAS meeting in Calgary

[John Hibbard]

ALMA Special Session at Calgary AAS Meeting:
“Imaging Star Formation in the Cosmos with ALMA”

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) will provide quantum leaps in 
improvement compared to existing facilities, enabling entirely new 
science at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. Star formation in 
the Milky Way will be revealed with a hundred-fold increase in 
sensitivity and resolution, making it possible to see evidence of 
protoplanets in protostellar disks and to measure disk chemical 
differentiation. Star-forming molecular gas in nearby galaxies will be 
imaged with high sensitivity at parsec-scale resolution, providing new 
insight into the structure and evolution of galaxies. Multiple 
transitions of molecular and atomic gas will be imaged in distant 
galaxies back to the era of recombination, providing information on the 
chemistry, structure, formation and evolution of the earliest galaxies.

The North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) is sponsoring a special 
session at the 208th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, to be 
held 4-8 June 2006 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The special session will 
take place from 2:30-4:00pm on Monday June 5, in order to adjoin the 
meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASA). It will feature 
review talks highlighting ALMA's capabilities and scientific potential 
in three key research areas.

Speakers & Topic:
• Doug Johnstone (NRC-HIA): Star formation in our galaxy: the need for ALMA
• Jean L. Turner (UCLA): Imaging star-forming gas in nearby galaxies
• Andrew W. Blain (Caltech): Imaging high-z starburst galaxies

We invite AAS attendees to present relevant poster contributions to this 
session by selecting it when submitting their abstracts. The deadline 
for abstract submission is March 23 2006 via the AAS website 
http://www.aas.org/meetings/aas208/.

A. Wootten, J. Hibbard and M. Adams

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