ALMA Cycle 8 2021 Community Days and Proposal Planning Events
Do you want to learn about ALMA Cycle 8 2021 capabilities, the proposal submission process, and what's new in CASA? Do you have questions about the Observing Tool or using CASA to simulate your proposed observations?
ALMA Ambassadors have organized a 2-week series of public talks and tutorials to provide information on the latest ALMA capabilities, changes to the proposal review process, and much more. These events will be fully virtual and each topic will be presented multiple times, to make it as easy as possible to get the information you need for your proposals.
The ALMA Cycle 8 2021 timeline can be found in the ALMA Cycle 8 2021 Pre-Announcement.
Talks will be given between 22 March - 02 April 2021, on the following topics:
- ALMA Basics and Cycle 8 2021 Capabilities (slides)
- Radio Interferometry Basics (slides)
- Proposal Planning and the Cycle 8 2021 Proposal Review Process (slides)
- Introduction to the ALMA Observing Tool (includes a hands-on component)
- ALMA Data Products, Archive Use, and Notes on the Pipeline Weblog (slides)
- What's new in CASA
- CASA Simulations (includes a hands-on component) (slides)
- Science-ready Data Products (includes a demo) (slides)
- Imaging with CASA (slides)
Talks will last approximately an hour (including time for Q&A). Registration for sessions with a hands-on or demo component (noted above) will be limited to approximately 25 participants and once reached, will be marked as full in the schedule below.
Event Schedule
This talk series will be conducted in an à la carte style; each session of a given talk (e.g., "What's new in CASA") will present the same material, but talks will be given multiple times over the course of the two week period. Some sample talk tracks are provided below the schedule.
Registration is required for all talks, at the URLs below or by contacting naascrec@nrao.edu. Note that the number of participants for talks with hands-on components will be capped to ensure a reasonable speaker-participant ratio. All talks will include time for Q&A.
A selection of the talks will be presented in Spanish and other talks will have Q&A support in the Spanish language; these talks are noted below.
The ALMA Ambassadors will be presenting the talks as listed. The talks will be aimed at a general audience, but the general scientific expertise of each Ambassador is listed at the bottom of this page.
Week 1: 22-26 March 2021
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Suggested Talk Tracks
Can't decided which talks to attend? Below are some sample tracks to get an idea of what talks you might want to attend.
Novice ALMA User without Interferometry Experience
- ALMA Basics and Cycle 8 2021 Capabilities
- Radio Interferometry Basics
- Proposal Planning and the Cycle 8 2021 Proposal Review Process
- Introduction to the ALMA Observing Tool
Have Used ALMA in Previous Cycles and Worked with ALMA Data
- ALMA Basics and Cycle 8 2021 Capabilities
- What's new in CASA
- Proposal Planning and the Cycle 8 2021 Proposal Review Process
- Science-ready Data Products
Experienced Observer at Other Wavelengths
- ALMA Basics and Cycle 8 2021 Capabilities
- Introduction to the ALMA Observing Tool
- Proposal Planning and the Cycle 8 2021 Proposal Review Process
2021 ALMA Ambassdors
The 2021 ALMA Ambassadors will be hosting all the events, as listed above. Their general scientific areas are:
| Ambassador | Affiliation | Scientific Area |
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| Mojegan Azadi | Harvard CfA | Galaxies and galactic nuclei (AGN) |
| Peter Breiding | West Virginia University | Galaxies and galactic nuclei (multi-mesenger SMBH studies) |
| Joe Bright | Northwestern University | Stellar evolution and the Sun (transients) |
| Natalie Butterfield | Green Bank Observatory | ISM, star formation and astrochemistry (Milky Way molecular clouds, star formation, and chemistry) |
| William Cramer | Arizona State University | Galaxies and galactic nuclei (galaxy clusters, galaxy evolution) |
| Kristen Jones | University of Kansas | Galaxies and galactic nuclei (AGN, galaxy evolution) |
| Danielle Lucero | Virginia Tech | Galaxies and galactic nuclei; ISM, star formation and astrochemistry (ISM content of galaxies) |
| Luis Henry Quiroga-Nuñez | University of New Mexico and NRAO | ISM, star formation and astrochemistry (Milky Way structure and stellar populations) |
| David Rebolledo | ALMA | ISM, star formation and astrochemistry (Milky Way molecular clouds, star formation) |
| Alexander Thelen | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Circumstellar disks, exoplanets, and the solar system; ISM, star formation and astrochemistry (chemistry in planetary atmospheres) |
| Merel van 't Hoff | University of Michigan | Circumstellar disks, exoplanets, and the solar system; ISM, star formation, and astrochemistry (embedded and protoplanetary disks) |
