[asac] Fwd: ALMA Community and Survey Meetings

[Leonardo Testi]

Hi all,
    here is the promised announcement for the community day and  
survey workshop.

Leonardo

> Dear colleague,
>
> We would like to draw your attention to the ALMA Community Meeting  
> and the
> workshop on Surveys for ALMA to be held in Garching from 3 to 6  
> September
> 2007. To register or obtain further information, please consult
> http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/science/meetings/gar-sep07/
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Robert Laing, Leonardo Testi and Carlos De Breuck
>
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>
> Summary
> -------
>
> The Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) consisting of 54 12m and  
> 12 7m
> telescopes and at least 6 frequency bands at the high-altitude  
> Chajnantor
> site in Chile will provide a major leap forward in millimetre and
> submillimetre astronomy, allowing fundamental questions in the  
> formation
> of galaxies, stars and planets to be addressed. Now ALMA has  
> entered its
> main construction phase, ESO and Radionet are organising two back- 
> to-back
> meetings aimed at the European astronomical community.
>
> The goals of the ALMA Community Meeting are
> -------------------------------------------
>
> The aim of this one and a half day meeting is to keep the European
> astronomical community informed about ALMA progress since the last  
> ALMA
> Community Day in September 2004 . The meeting will provide information
> about the project status, and additional reports on other ALMA  
> activities
> such as the status of software. The definition of the ALMA  
> Operations Plan
> and the organization of the European ALMA Regional Center (ARC) has
> considerably advanced during the last year. Plans for ALMA  
> operation and
> for the organization of the ARC network in Europe will be presented  
> and
> discussed at the Community meeting with the aim of obtaining  
> feedback from
> the future ALMA users. Also, a sample of exciting recent scientific
> results relevant to ALMA and the opportunities afforded by ALMA in its
> Early Science phase will be presented.
>
> The rationale of the Surveys for ALMA workshop
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> While ALMA is being constructed in Chile, several ground-based  
> millimetre
> and submillimetre observatories worldwide are being upgraded and  
> are now
> coming on-line. The excellent wide-field survey capabilities of large
> bolometer arrays such as LABOCA and SCUBA-2 on single dish sub- 
> millimetre
> telescopes such as APEX and the JCMT, and the the upgraded
> (sub-)millimetre arrays such as IRAM allow prospective ALMA users to
> develop ambitious science projects and get ready for the use of ALMA.
> During the first years of operation of ALMA, the Herschel Space
> Observatory and the Planck mission will also be operational, and  
> provide
> unprecedented far-infrared survey capabilities. The progress in  
> wide-field
> near-IR detectors on dedicated telescopes such as VISTA will also  
> provide
> a major new data-set for ALMA follow-up observations. The aim of  
> this one
> and a half day meeting is to coordinate the planning of these  
> preparatory
> surveys for ALMA, and to solicit feedback from the community in the
> planning of the early science follow-up with ALMA from these  
> surveys. The
> potential for deep legacy type surveys with the completed ALMA  
> array in
> 2012 will also be briefly discussed.
>
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