5th ALMA-Taiwan Town Meeting

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ALMA-Taiwan Project team will hold the 5th ALMA-Taiwan town meeting at National Chao-Tung University (NCTU, Hsinchu), during the Annual Meeting of the Physical Socity of Republic of China (PSROC). People who are interested in the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) Project are invited to the meeting.

Date: January 28, 2008

Time: 19:00-21:00

Venue: International Conference Hall, B1, Engineering Building IV, NCTU (工程四館 B1 國際會議廳) [Map]

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. Taiwan will soon collaborate with ALMA-North America as well on the project. You can find some more information on the project at
http://alma.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw.

Below is the preliminary agenda of the meeting:

• Latest status of the ALMA-Taiwan project
• Chile Construction
• Taiwan Front-End Integration Center
• Engineering Development
• Software Status
• ALAM Regional Center
• Science Preparation
• Open Discussion

We will provide food and drinks prior the meeting. If you are interested in attending the meeting, please register on-line by January 24, 2008.

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