4th ALMA-Taiwan Town Meeting

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ALMA-Taiwan Project team will hold the 4th ALMA-Taiwan town meeting at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) during the CAST2007 meeting. All the people, who are interested in the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) Project, are invited to the meeting.

Date: June 2, 2007
Time: 18:00-20:00 (start right after the CAST2007 meeting)
Venue: Medical College of National Cheng Kung University [Map] (1F lecture hall where the CAST2007 meeting will be held.)

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. 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. In September 2005, Taiwan has started a collaboration with ALMA-Japan to participate in the ALMA Project. At the same time, Taiwan has been exploring a possibility to collaborate with ALMA-NA, followed by a recent big progress. You can find some more information on the project at http://alma.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw.

At the town meeting, we are going to discuss following topics:

• Latest status of the ALMA-Taiwan project
• Science cases and preparation
• User support

We will provide light foods and drinks during the meeting. For more details, including any suggestions and comments on the meeting, please feel free to send emails to Nagayoshi Ohashi (ohashi@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw).

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

Nagayaoshi Ohashi
ALMA-Taiwan Project Manager