ALMA/NAASC Community Events
NRAO Community Outreach Events
To prepare the North American community to fully participate in the ALMA Call for Proposals, the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) organizes proposal preparation workshops in the months leading up to the proposal deadline. 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
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 |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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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.
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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October 05 and 07, 2022 |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Cycle 4 (2016) ALMA Community Day & Outreach Events
Dates |
Location |
Contact |
Event Website |
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Mar 31-Apr 1, 2016 | Carnegie Observatories | Alison Peck | website |
Mar 22, 2016 | Socorro, NM | Alison Peck | website |
Mar 18, 2016 | University of Colorado | Alison Peck | website |
Mar 15-16, 2016 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Alison Peck | website |
Mar 10-11, 2016 | University of Texas, Austin | Alison Peck | website |
Mar 7-8, 2016 | Boston University | Alison Peck | website |
Mar 3-4, 2016 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst | Alison Peck | website |
Feb 18-19, 2016 | University of McGill | Alison Peck | website |
Jan 27-29, 2016 | ALMA Data Reduction Party | Alison Peck | website |
May 6-8, 2015 | NRAO Community Event: Data Reduction Party | Alison Peck | website |
Apr 13-Apr 14, 2015 | NRAO Community Event at the Space Telescope Science Institute | Alison Peck | website |
Mar 31-Apr 1, 2015 | NRAO Community Event at the University of California at San Diego | Alison Peck | website |
Mar 27, 2015 | NRAO Community Event at the SPF1 | Laura Perez | website |
Mar 9-10, 2015 | NRAO Community Event at the Florida Institute of Technology | Alison Peck | website |
Feb 26-27, 2015 | NRAO Community Event at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Morelia | Alison Peck | website |
Nov 13, 2014 | NRAO Community Event at the 46th DPS Meeting | Arielle Moullet | website |
Jun 16-20, 2014 | UIUC - Molecular Spectroscopy | Anthony Remijan | website |
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)
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) |
ALMA Basics & Cycle 8 2021 Capabilities
ALMA_basics_capabilities-C8_2021.pdf
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ALMA Archive & Data Products - Cycle 8 2021
Archive_Data_Products-C8_2021.pdf
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5.07 MB (5317846 bytes)
Interferometry Basics - Cycle 8 2021
Interferometry_Basics-C8_2021.pdf
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19.33 MB (20269421 bytes)
Introduction to CASA Imaging - Cycle 8 2021
Intro_CASA_Imaging-C8_2021.pdf
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25.35 MB (26580972 bytes)
SIMALMA - Cycle 8 2021
SIMALMA-C8_2021.pdf
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Proposal Preparation & Review - Cycle 8 2021
Proposal_Preparation_Review-C8_2021.pdf
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Science Ready Data Products - Cycle 8 2021
ScienceReadyDataProducts.pdf
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ALMA Basics 30 March 2022
20220330-ALMAbasics.pdf
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Proposal Review 31 March 2022
20220331-ProposalReview.pdf
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ALMA Basics 05 April 2022
20220405-ALMAbasics.pdf
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Proposal Preparation 05 April 2022
20220405-ProposalPreparation.pdf
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Cycle 9 capabilities 30 March 2022
20220330-Cycle9Capabilities.pdf
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20220331-ProposalPreparation.pdf
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Proposal Review 05 April 2022
20220405-ProposalReview.pdf
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ALMA Basics (Spanish) 06 April 2022
Overview_Cycle9_2022_spanish.pdf
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Proposal Planning 07 April 2022
Proposal Preparation_AA_Cycle9_FINAL.pdf
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Proposal Review 07 April 2022
ProposalRevew-20220407.pdf
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