The ALMA Regional Center (Taiwan-ARC) of ASIAA and the UCAT Center for ALMA Science Advancement (tuCASA) of the University Consortium of ALMA-Taiwan (UCAT) are pleased to host jointly a two-day ALMA User Workshop for potential ALMA users in Taiwan on March 19 and 26, 2016. New users are strongly encouraged to attend the lectures on the first day.

The call for proposal for ALMA Cycle 4 will be issued on March 22, 2016. The ALMA User Workshop 2016 is designed for introducing ALMA science and preparing ALMA Cycle 4 proposals. It is intended for graduate students, postdocs, faculty members and people who are interested in observing with ALMA. The deadline for registration is March 11, 2016 (Friday).

The program of the ALMA User Workshop 2016 includes:

• March 19, 2016
• ALMA science
• Basics of (sub)mm interferometry
• CASA image simulation
• March 26, 2016
• ALMA Cycle 4 capability
• ALMA ACA stand alone/polarization/VLBI-ALMA observation
• Suggestions of ALMA proposal preparation
• Observing Tool

Actions

Action items BEFORE coming to the workshop:

1. read through call for proposal, ALMA primer, proposers guide and technical handbook
2. install the latest version of OT and CASA4.5.2 installed in your laptop
3. Feel free to ask ARC members for help if there is any difficulty during the installation

LOC

• Yu-Nung Su (Chair)
• Sheng-Yuan Liu
• Alfonso Trejo Cruz
• Anthony Moraghan
• Pei-Ying Hsieh
• Yu-Ting Wu
• Kuo-Song Wang
• Wendy Huang