NRAO Community Outreach Events

To prepare the North American community to fully participate in the ALMA Call for Proposals and archivel research, the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) organizes proposal preparation and data processing workshops. In addition, the North American community is encouraged to request to host ALMA proposal preparation workshops at their home institutions. These events are one to two day workshops organized and led by experienced local postdocs from the ALMA Ambassadors program and/or NAASC staff with a focus on the capabilities of ALMA, mm/submm interferometry observing techniques, and the tools required to design ALMA observing programs and submit proposals. For more information, contact naascinfo@nrao.edu.

A list of community outreach events from 2016 through the present is provided in the tables below. A list of events from other cycles is provided here.

Cycle 11 ALMA Events

ALMA Data Reduction Party: Polarization

The North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) is pleased to announce an ALMA Data Reduction Party on Polarization that will take place March 3-6, 2025 at the North American ALMA Science Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. During this 3.5-day event, NAASC scientists and data analysts will provide focused information and individualized support to a cohort of North American PI or Archival ALMA users who want support to image ALMA polarization data. To facilitate data processing, attendees will be provided access to NRAO computing resources both during and after the workshop; the event is fully in-person, and travel support can be provided upon request. More information here . If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply by the deadline of December 20 at 17:00 ET. Note that the deadline has been extended to December 20!

Data Processing Workshops

ALMA Ambassadors will host data processing workshops across North America in September–November 2024. Events will be hybrid and include both in-person and virtual components. Please see the table below for event locations, dates, and webpages. Registration for each event is encouraged and registration forms are available on the individual event webpages.

Dates	Location	Ambassador	Webpage
19–20 September 2024	University of Virginia	Erica Behrens and Mélisse Bonfand-Caldeira	webpage
30 September 2024	Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute	Jeff Jennings	webpage
22 October 2024	University of Victoria	Jess Speedie	webpage
24-25 October 2024	Arizona State University	Patrick Kamieneski	webpage
24 October 2024	University of Alberta	Hamid Hassani	webpage
29 October 2024	Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian	Joshua Lovell	webpage
29 October 2024	University of Maryland	Yu-Hsuan (Eltha) Teng	webpage
22 November 2024	University of Texas, Austin	Olivia Cooper	webpage

Proposal Preparation Workshops

During the Spring of 2024, ALMA Ambassadors will host Cycle 11 proposal preparation workshops at institutes across the US. Information on these events and links to the event webpages are provided in the table below.

Dates	Location	Ambassador	Webpage
21 March 2024	NASA Ames	Valentin Le Gouellec	webpage
25 March 2024	University of California, San Diego	Yu-Hsuan (Eltha) Teng	webpage
27 March 2024	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Stephen McKay	webpage
28 March 2024	Carnegie Mellon University	Mohit Bhardwaj	webpage
28 March 2024	Arizona State University	Patrick Kamieneski	webpage
03 April 2024	Texas A&M University	Jack Birkin	webpage
05 April 2024	Universidad de Valparaíso	David Rebolledo	webpage

Cycle 10 ALMA Events

ALMA Data Reduction Party: Data Combination

The ALMA Data Reduction Party will take place November 6-8, 2023 at the North American ALMA Science Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. During this 3-day event, NAASC scientists and data analysts will provide focused information and individualized support to a cohort of North American PI or Archival ALMA users who want support to image ALMA data from multiple arrays that include 7-m and/or Total Power observations. Attendance is limited to 10 researchers based at institutions in North America. If you are interested in this opportunity, please fill out this form as soon as possible but no later than September 25. More information here.

ALMA Data Reduction Party: Data Combination

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) together with the NAASC cordially invite you to an NRAO Community Day at the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA UNAM) in Morelia, Mexico on September 28 and 29, 2023. This event is designed for all astronomers, and in particular for those who do not regularly utilize radio data in their research. The workshop will provide an overview of NRAO instruments (VLA, ALMA) including new capabilities, a discussion of data reduction, pipelines, including aspects of polarimetry and self-calibration. The second day will also include hands-on tutorials for ALMA and VLA data reduction and imaging. This community day will be preceded by the First Mexican meeting en route to the Next Generation Very Large Array. More information here.

Data Processing Workshops

The ALMA Ambassadors will be hosting data processing workshops between September to October 2023. Information on specific events is available on the table below.

Dates	Location	Contact	Webpage
13 September 2023	University of British Columbia	Adam Dong	webpage
05 October 2023	West Virginia University	Emily Moravec	webpage
16 October 2023	Villanova	Dylan Paré	webpage
19–20 October 2023	National Solar Observatory [Solar-focused workshop]	Johnathan Stauffer	webpage
23–24 October 2023	JPL, Pasadena, CA	Marion Villenave	webpage

Proposal Preparation Workshops

During the Spring of 2023, ALMA Ambassadors hosted targeted Cycle 10 proposal preparation workshops at institutes across the US. Information is provided below.

Dates	Location	Contact	Webpage
03-04 & 18 April 2023	MIT Haystack	Dongjin Kim	webpage
April 14 2023	University of Texas, Austin	Arianna Long	webpage
April 14 2023	Universidad Católica del Norte	David Rebolledo	webpage
April 18 2023	Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics	Jiayi Sun	webpage
April 19 & 20 2023	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Sinclaire Manning	webpage
April 20 2023	West Virginia University	Emily Moravec	webpage
April 20 2023	University of British Columbia	Adam Dong	webpage
April 25 2023	IPAC/Caltech	Marion Villenave	webpage
April 27 2023	Universidad Diego Portales	Miguel Vioque	webpage

Cycle 9 ALMA Events

Data Processing Workshops

In the Fall of 2022, the Cycle 9 ALMA Ambassadors will host workshops focused on the basics of processing and analyzing ALMA data. The full set of workshop dates and locations will be announced by mid-September; preliminary information is available below.

Workshops

Dates	Location	Contact	Webpage
October 05 and 07, 2022 (postponed from original September dates due to Hurricane Ian)	University of Florida	Allison Towner	webpage
October 05, 2022	University of Arizona	Fengwu Sun	webpage
October 11, 2022	Montana State University	Hansung Gim	webpage
October 18, 2022	University of Maryland	Nathan Roth	webpage
October 24, 2022	Stanford	Wren Suess	webpage
October 26, 2022	University of Colorado, Boulder	Hayley Roberts	webpage
October 26, 2022	CfA / Harvard University	Charles Law	webpage
October 28, 2022	Northwestern University	Tarraneh Eftekhari	webpage

Community Day & Proposal Planning

For Cycle 9, ALMA Ambassadors will be hosting targeted workshops at institutes across the US and giving an abbreviated webinar series that is more broadly targeted. Information (including event or registration links) are provided below.

Workshops

Dates	Location	Contact	Webpage
March 28, 2022	Stanford University	Wren Suess	Webpage
March 29, 2022	University of Maryland	Nathan Roth	Webpage
March 29, 2022	Montana State University	Hansung Gim	Webpage
March 30, 2022	Yale University	Cheng-Han Hsieh	Webpage
April 01, 2022	Northwestern University	Tarraneh Eftekhari	Webpage
April 02, 2022	University of Alabama	Hansung Gim	Webpage
April 5, 7, 8, 2022	University of Florida	Allison Towner	Webpage
April 08, 2022	University of Arizona	Fengwu Sun	Webpage

Webinar Series

In addition to the in-person workshops, a webinar series presented some Cycle 9 information. The listing of these events is below.

Date	Title
March 30, 2022 (4pm ET)	ALMA Basics and Cycle 9 Capabilities (Slides: Part 1, Part 2)
March 31, 2022 (Noon ET)	Cycle 9 Proposal Preparation & the Proposal Review Process (Slides: Part 1, Part 2)
April 05, 2022 (2pm ET)	ALMA Basics and Cycle 9 Capabilities (Slides)
April 05, 2022 (4pm ET)	Cycle 9 Proposal Preparation & the Proposal Review Process (Slides: Part 1, Part 2)
April 06, 2022 (Noon ET)	Fundamentos de ALMA y Capacidades del Ciclo 9 / ALMA Basics and Cycle 9 Capabilities (in Spanish; Slides)
April 07, 2022 (Noon ET)	Planificación de propuestas y proceso de revisión de propuestas / Proposal Planning and the Proposal Review Process (in Spanish; Slides: Part 1, Part 2)

Cycle 8 (2021) ALMA Community Day & Proposal Planning Events

Proposal planning events for Cycle 8 (2021) were fully virtual and took place from 22 March - 02 April 2021. These events were presented in an "a la carte" format by the 2021 ALMA Ambassadors. Details are available on the Cycle 8 2021 Events Page.

 

Cycle 8 (2020) ALMA Community Day & Proposal Planning Events

Dates	Location	Contact	Event Website
March 6, 2020	University of Massachusetts - Amherst	Christopher Faesi	website
March 10-11, 2020	University of Guanajuato	Emmanuel Momjian	website (Cancelled)
March 19, 2020	Online (originally at Carnegie, Pasadena)	Gregory Walth / Serena Perrota	website
March 20, 2020	Online (originally at UMaryland)	Veronica Allen	website
March 23, 2020	Online (originally at UToronto/OSU)	Toby Brown / Amy Sardone	website
March 24, 2020	Online (originally at Haverford College)	David Stark	website
March 25, 2020	Online (originally at U La Serena)	Jorge Gonzalez Lopez / David Rebolledo	website
March 26, 2020	Online (originally at UWyoming)	George Privon	website
March 27, 2020	Online (originally at JHU)	Andrey Vayner / Alexander Thelen	website
March 30, 2020	Online (originally at UOklahoma)	Ben Tofflemire	website
March 31, 2020	Online (originally at Columbia)	Tom Rice	website
April 1, 2020	Online (originally at UDP, Chile)	Jorge Gonzalez Lopez / David Rebolledo	website
April 2, 2020	Online (originally at NASA Goddard)	Veronica Allen / Alexander Thelen	website
April 3, 2020	Online (originally at UWashington)	Danielle Lucero	website
April 7, 2020	Universidad de Antofagasta	David Rebolledo	website (cancelled)

 

Cycle 7 (2019) ALMA Community Day & Proposal Planning Events

Dates	Location	Contact	Event Website
March 20, 2019	ALMA JAO	David Rebolledo	website
March 21, 2019	University of Maryland	Veronica Allen / Kristina Nyland	website
March 22, 2019	Universidad de Concepcion	David Rebolledo	website
March 27, 2019	NASA JPL	Liton Majumdar	website
March 27, 2019	University of Florida	George Privon	website
March 28, 2019	UC Berkeley	Megan Ansdell	website
March 28, 2019	Northwestern University.	Cassie Reuter / Erin Cox	website
March 28, 2019	Rochester Institute of Technology	Dary Ruiz-Rodriguez	website (cancelled)
March 29, 2019	University of Toledo	Angus Mok / Dyas Utomo	website
April 1, 2019	Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian	Maria Jesus Jimenez-Donaire	website
April 1, 2019	University of Toronto	Toby Brown	website
April 8, 2019	MIT	Allison Noble	website
April 8, 2019	University of Texas	Justin Spilker / Jorge Zavala	website
May 30-31, 2019	Texas Tech University	Emmanuel Momjian	website
June 13-14, 2019	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Emmanuel Momjian	website

 

Cycle 6 (2018) ALMA Community Day & Proposal Planning Events

Dates	Location	Contact	Event Website
March 26, 2018	Australian National University	Katie Jameson	website
March 27, 2018	Stanford University	Ian Czekala	website
March 27, 2018	Johns Hopkins University	Meredith McGregor, or Kate Rowlands	website
March 28, 2018	Universidad Diego Portales	Loreto Barcos Muñoz	website
March 28, 2018	Rochester Institute of Technology	Dary Ruiz-Rodriguez	website
March 29, 2018	CSIRO (Marsfield)	Katie Jameson	website
March 29, 2018	Northwestern University	Deanne Coppejans	website
March 30, 2018	Columbia University	Statia Cook	website
March 30, 2018	University of Iowa	Rui Xue	website
April 10, 2018	University of Oklahoma	Patrick Sheehan	website
April 10, 2018	University of Arizona	Irene Shivaei, Steve Ertel, or Nick Ballering	website

 

Cycle 5 (2017) ALMA Community Day & Proposal Planning Events

Dates	Location	Contact	Event Website
March 16, 2017	University of Florida	Sarah Wood	website
March 28-29, 2017	West Virginia University	Nichol Cunningham	website
March 29, 2017	University of Michigan	Ke Zhang	website
March 30, 2017	University of Toronto	Chelsea Sharon	website
March 30, 2017	Rice University	Yann Boehler & Luca Ricci	website
April 4, 2017	University of Hawaii	Nienke van der Marel	website
April 5, 2017	University of Texas, Austin	Chao-Ling Hung	website
April 5, 2017	Yale University	Allison Kirkpatrick & Grant Tremblay	website
April 25-26, 2017	UNAM-Morelia	Emmanuel Momjian	website
July 10-11, 2017	Cornell University	Emmanuel Momjian	website