ALMA Early Science and NAASC Community Outreach
NAASC Community Outreach
To prepare the North American community to fully participate in the Early Science (ES) call, the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) will organize community outreach events each month leading up to the proposal deadline. The first of these events was at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in January in Seattle (see article in Feb, 2011 edition of NRAO eNews). A full list of community outreach events hosted during the 2011 March through June time period are provided in the Table below.
ALMA Community Day Events
Members of the North American community are hosting ALMA Community Day(s) event. These are one to two day events organized and led by Community Day proposers with a focus on the Early Science capabilities of ALMA, mm/submm interferometry observing techniques, and the tools required to design ALMA observing programs and submit proposals. The NAASC is supporting these events by providing staff to describe ALMA ES capabilities and NAASC community support programs, and lead brief demonstrations and/or tutorials on the ALMA ES user tools, including the ALMA Observing Tool for proposal generation and SIMdata in CASA for simulating observations.
The current versions of the CDE talks given by NAASC staffs are provided in the following table:
| Talk | Download |
|---|---|
| Introduction to ALMA Early Science | |
| ALMA: MM Observing Considerations | |
| ALMA Observing Preparation Tool | |
| Introduction to CASA and Simulation with Simdata |
Several of the community events will have a hands-on tutorial component focused on the ALMA Proposal tools. Space for the hands-on workshops may be limited, and local participants may be given a preference. Registration for hands-on tutorials will close three weeks prior to the date of the event. Registration for the Community Events Days is currently open.
Note that registration for hands-on tutorials may be limited at some community day events due to space limitations.
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2011 Dates |
Location |
Contact |
Event Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 7 | U. Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
Tony Mroczowski / Kim Scott | Website |
| March 11 | Santa Fe, NM after "Building on New Worlds, New Horizons" |
Kartik Sheth | Website |
| March 15-16 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA |
John Carpenter / Eric Murphy / Carrie Bridge | Website |
| April 18 | STScI Baltimore, MD |
Rachel Osten | Website |
| April 18-19 | University of Toronto** Toronto, CA |
Gerald Schieven | Website |
| April 20 | Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Boston, MA |
Sean Andrews | Website |
| April 26-27 | Hands-on Tutorials NRAO Charlottesville, VA |
Kartik Sheth | Website |
| May 2-3 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL |
Jonathan Tan | Website |
| May 4-5 | HIA** Victoria, B.C. |
Brenda Matthews | Website |
| May 8-10 | University of Iowa Iowa City, IA |
Cornelia Lang / Daryl Haggard / Tony Wong | Website |
| May 9-10 | Hands-on Tutorials NRAO Charlottesville, VA |
Kartik Sheth | Website |
| May 10 | Universite Laval** Québec Q.C. |
Gerald Schieven | Website |
| May 12-13 | University of Arizona & NOAO Tucson, AZ |
Joan Najita / Xiaohui Fan | Website |
| May 12-13 | University of Calgary** | Gerald Schieven | Website |
| May 23-24 | 218th AAS Meeting Boston, MA |
Kartik Sheth | Website |
| May 25 | University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA |
Kartik Sheth | Website |
| May 27 | Columbia University NY, NY |
Andrew Baker | Website |
| June 3 | University of Western Ontario** | Gerald Schieven | Website |
