The ALMA Regional Center (Taiwan-ARC) of ASIAA and the University Consortium of ALMA-Taiwan (UCAT) are pleased to host jointly an ALMA Users Workshop for potential ALMA users in Taiwan on March 30 (Wednesday), 2022. Below is the announcement:

ALMA Cycle 9 Users Workshop
Time: March 30, 2022
Place: Room 1203, AS/NTU Astronomy-Mathematics Building, ASIAA
Registration Deadline: March 27, 2022.

The call for proposal for ALMA Cycle 9 is anticipated to be issued on March 24, 2022. The ALMA Cycle 9 Users Workshop is designed for preparing ALMA Cycle 9 proposals. It is intended for graduate students, postdocs, faculty members and people who are interested in using ALMA.

Participants are welcome to join the workshop remotely with the following link
meet.google.com/ueo-inbv-xcc

The program of the ALMA Cycle 9 Users Workshop includes:

• ALMA Cycle 9 information
• Tools for proposal preparation
• CARTA
• Proposal Evaluation and Writing
• 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 (6.2 or later) in your laptop
3. Download Materials of CASA Image Simulation Tutorial
4. Feel free to ask ARC members for help if there is any difficulty during the installation

Furthermore, EA ARC jointly invites the Proposal Handling Team to the 30-min session on the proposal review process for the East Asia user community.
The Proposal Handling Team has agreed with the date and time:
Date: March 30 (Wed) in EA, March 29 (Tue) in Chile
Time: 9:30-10:00 Japan/Korea, 8:30-9:00 Taiwan, 21:30-22:00 in Chile

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83887202251?pwd=UkFnYjBCQWtKNXprRXhSbHFGcTV1UT09