The ALMA Regional Center (Taiwan-ARC) of ASIAA and the University Consortium of ALMA-Taiwan (UCAT) are pleased to host jointly a one-day ALMA Users Workshop for potential ALMA users in Taiwan on March 25, 2017.

The call for proposal for ALMA Cycle 5 will be issued on March 21, 2017. The ALMA Cycle 5 Users Workshop is designed for preparing ALMA Cycle 5 proposals. It is intended for graduate students, postdocs, faculty members and people who are interested in using ALMA. The deadline for registration is March 17, 2017.

The programs of the ALMA Users Workshop (March 25) includes:

• ALMA Cycle 5 capability
• Suggestions of ALMA proposal preparation
• ALMA science portal
• Observing Tool (OT)
• CASA image simulation

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 CASA 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)
• Cindy Chiu
• Wendy Huang
• Pei-Ying Hsieh
• Tien-Hao Hsieh
• Sheng-Yuan Liu
• Anthony Moraghan
• Hsi-An Pan
• Alfonso Trejo Cruz
• Yu-Ting Wu