Gran Telescopio Milimétrico / Large Millimeter Telescope Community Meetings

The Gran Telescopio Milimétrico / Large Millimeter Telescope is presenting a series of Community Meetings to provide information to the user community about the status of the telescope and planning for future science observing opportunities.

GTM / LMT invite participation in three such meetings, each described below.

October 16, 2020:
US Community Access to the Large Millimeter Telescope – A “Kick off” Meeting

The US National Science Foundation Mid-Scale Innovation Program is now supporting access to the LMT for any astronomer located at a US institution. This meeting has been designed to provide members of this new user community with a general introduction to the LMT and its instruments and with an overview of the LMT’s plans for science user support in the coming years.

October 30, 2020:
Proposal Opportunity for March 2021–September 2021

This fall there will be a proposal opportunity for scientific observations in the March 2021–September 2021 time frame. This meeting will describe the proposal opportunity and provide information to prospective users about proposal submission and review procedures. It will also describe the set of instruments to be made available in the proposal call and the status of software that will be available for reduction of data from these instruments.

November 13, 2020:
New Instruments for the LMT

This meeting will describe several new LMT instruments due to be commissioned during the 2020-2021 observing season at the LMT, including the TolTEC instrument. The status and expected schedule for installation of instruments will be described along with plans for data reduction pipelines.

To attend and participate in these webinar meetings, please register using the following link. Your registration is good for all three meetings, and you will receive a confirmation and reminder emails before each of the meetings with a unique Zoom link information.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Oct 16, 2020 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: LMT/GTM Community Meeting
Register in advance for this webinar: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xyakg6VEQ-evhxzZC8TyqA