UPenn ALMA Community Day 2011

When:

March 7th, 2011, from 9:00 AM -- 5:00 PM.

Where:

David Rittenhouse Lab, Room A4.
209 S. 33rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Transportion Information

Why:

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will release its call for Early Science (ES) "Cycle 0" proposals no later than March 31st of this year (see this announcement for details). To ensure that the North American community is prepared to participate fully during ALMA's ES phase, the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia is supporting a number of "Community Days" across the country, which will introduce ES capabilities and the software tools required to develop and submit ALMA ES proposals. We have agreed to host one such Community Day for astronomers in the Philadelphia and surrounding area.

What:

A provisional schedule:

09:00 Welcome
09:15 Coffee!
09:30 ALMA Overview (Tony Remijan)
10:15 Interferometry general talk (David Moore)
10:45 Coffee!
11:00 ALMA ES and High-z Galaxies (Kim Scott)
11:30 ALMA and SZ Galaxy Cluster Imaging (Tony Mroczkowski)
11:50 ALMA Follow up of CMB Polarization Foregrounds / Calibration of CMB Polarization Experiments with ALMA (Laura Newburgh)
12:10 Lunch
13:30 Observing Tool (OT) talk (Tony Remijan)
14:00 OT hands-on experience.
14:30 Coffee! (continue to work on OT!)
15:00 Simdata Overview (Adam Leroy)
15:30 Simdata hands-on experience
17:00 Adieu.

Adam Leroy, Robin Pulliam, & Tony Remijan comprise the NRAO team visiting to lend their support to this event. The "hands-on" tutorial sessions will require the use of your laptop, although note that the ALMA software packages may not work with all operating systems (the registration page linked below has details).

Registration:

Please register for this event at the main NRAO website, making sure to provide information about your laptop's operating system if you plan to stay for one or both of the afternoon "hands-on" tutorial sessions. Important: registration for the "hands-on" sessions will close on February 14th.

For those who cannot make the March 7th event at U Penn, you may be interested in the Tri-State ALMA Community Day on May 27th, to be hosted at Columbia University.

Requirements for Participation:

Install and verify that the Observing Tool (OT) works on own laptop. Click here for instructions on installing the OT. Note that this is the test version of the OT, and new version will be released after the call for proposals.

Install and verify that CASA works on your own laptop. Click on http://casa.nrao.edu/casa_obtaining.shtml and follow instructions under the "Obtaining CASA" section.

Talks can be found here

Last update was on 9th March 2011. The similarity to the Tri-State ALMA Community Day site is not an accident. I borrowed Andrew Baker's html here.