Program

9:30 a.m.: Welcome

9:45 a.m.: ALMA Overview and Introduction to Capabilities

10:30 a.m.: Science highlights

11:15 a.m.: Break

11:30 a.m.: Interferometry basics - What you need to know to propose to ALMA

12:15 p.m.: Lunch (proposal ideas and collaborations?)

1:15 p.m.: Proposal Preparation

2:00 p.m.: ALMA Observing Tool intro and hands on session

3:00 p.m.: Break

3:30 p.m.: Simulations and Imaging with CASA intro and hands on session

5:00 p.m.: Closing remarks

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Download CASA 5.1.1 here.

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The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Green Bank Observatory are facilities of the U.S. National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.