[asac] FYI: ALMA and ELTs: A Deeper, Finer View of the Universe

[Al Wootten]

First announcement for the workshop:

	ALMA and ELTs: A Deeper, Finer View of the Universe

ESO Garching, March 24-27, 2009

The workshop aims at exploring the scientific synergies between ALMA and 
the up-coming giant optical/infrared telescopes (GMT,TMT,E-ELT)

More information at: www.eso.org/almaelt2009
Organisers: L.Testi and M.Kissler-Patig on behalf of ESO

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REGISTRATION:

Deadline - 15 December 2008
URL: http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/almaelt2009/registration.html


RATIONALE:

The main goal of the workshop is to bring the ALMA and ELT communities 
together, to identify the common science cases and to outline 
instrumentation/upgrade priorities for the ALMA and ELT facilities to 
support these.

The product of the workshop will be a report (rather than proceedings). 
The report will, on the one hand, present the common science cases in 
the areas of:

- fundamental physics, cosmology, and relics of the early Universe;
- galaxy and ISM evolution;
- star formation from re-ionization to the present;
- solar systems near and far.

On the other hand, the report will identify upgrade paths for ALMA and 
instrument priorities for the ELTs. The latter could be used as a 
feedback to the group investigating science with ALMA in the 2020 era, 
and to the instrumentation plans of the various ELTs.

The representatives from the different ALMA partners and ELT projects 
are part of the Science Organising Committee. Thus, we believe that the 
workshop could become an international milestone for all concerned projects.

The workshop is particularly timely, as it will feedback into the ALMA 
2020 effort and the instrument suite selection of the E-ELT.


SOC:

J. Afonso (Lisboa Obs./ESAC)
A. Blain (Caltech/ASAC)
R. Gilmozzi (ESO/E-ELT)
R. Hills (ESO/ALMA)
R. Kudritzki (IfA/GSMT)
P. McCarthy (Carnegie Obs./GMT)
K. Morita (NAOJ/ALMA)
S. Shectman (Carnegie Obs./GMT)
D. Silva (NOAO/GSMT)
C. Steidel (Caltech/TMT)
A. Wootten (NRAO/ALMA)


LOC:

A. Calamida (ESO)
M. Kissler-Patig (ESO)
C. Stoffer (ESO)
L. Testi (ESO)