3th ALMA-Taiwan Town Meeting

Participant

ALMA-Taiwan team will hold the 3rd ALMA-Taiwan town meeting. All the people, who are interested in the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) Project, are invited to the meeting.

Date: October 21, 2006
Venue: the ASIAA, R916, Taipei (9th floor of the Condensed Matter Sciences and Physics Department Building, National Taiwan University)

ALMA is the largest ground based, international astronomical observational facility ever built, and is a partnership of North America, Europe, and Japan in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. It is currently under construction in the Chajnantor area in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. In September 2005, the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan entered into an agreement with the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) in Japan in order to join the ALMA project through ALMA-Japan project. ALMA will be studying a broad range of exciting science, such as weather patterns on solar system planets, the formation of planets and stars in our galaxy, the motions within active galactic nuclei, and the formation of the earliest galaxies at z~10. You can find some more information on the project at http://alma.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw.

The town meeting will start at 11:30 am at the R916 (ALMA-T Co-I's meeting will be held from 10:30 am at the same place). You can find maps at http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/about/map02a.html.

The meeting agenda is:

11:30- Welcome Address
11:35- Progress Report on the ALMA construction and the latest status of the ALMA-Taiwan Project
12:05- Progress Report on the Band-10 development
12:25- Lunch/Discussion
13:30- ALMA Science and science related tasks
14:00- ALMA Operation
14:30- Discussion

If you are interested in attending the meeting, please send your registration form, attached below, to Linda Shao (lshao@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw) BY OCT 13. We will provide lunch boxes to people who request (see the registration form). Even after the deadline, you can still send your registration form, but your lunch box may not be guaranteed. For more details of the meeting, send email to Nagayoshi Ohashi (ohashi@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw).

We look forward to seeing all of you at the meeting!

Cheers,
Nagayaoshi Ohashi
ALMA-Taiwan Project Manager