Science in Galaxies with ALMA 

UK ALMA Regional Centre, JBCA, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building

29 - 30 March 2010

The first call for ALMA proposals is expected towards the end of 2010, for observations in 2011 (see http://www.alma.ac.uk/about-alma for links). ALMA's unprecedented capabilities mean that observations will initially be challenging but with very great rewards.  The UK community needs to prepare to take advantage of this, and the UK ARC's role is to support prospective users and make sure that the science potential is fully understood.  We are holding a workshop for communities working on the more detailed astrophysics within galaxies  (following the workshop on the high redshift universe in Oxford on 30 March 2009), with a mixture of keynote and contributed talks.

This two-day meeting will look at ALMA's potential for research into star formation, stellar evolution, astrochemistry, the Galactic centre and other phemomena of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies.  We invite talks on recent progress leading to questions which can be addressed using ALMA observations, including Early Science with a subset of array capabilities.

The meeting is followed by a CASA workshop.

A meeting on High-Redshift Science with ALMA was held previously in Oxford,  March 2009.

Science In Galaxies with ALMA: Invited speakers

The full talk titles will be supplied; some speakers are still to be confirmed.

• Leonardo Testi (ESO) Status of ALMA and early science
• Jacco van Loon (Keele)  Stellar winds and interactions
• Graham Harper (Dublin) Evolved stars
• John Richer (Cambridge) Star formation
• (tbc) Models and theory of star formation
• Paola Caselli (Leeds) Chemistry in star forming regions
• Jane Greaves (St Andrews) Disks and planets
• Susanne Aalto (Onsala)  Star formation in galaxies
• Andreas Eckart (Bonn) Sgr A*

We invite contributed talks on these and related topics including observations and their interpretation using models and theory, and the role of ALMA  from early operations onwards.  The meeting will contain ample time for discussion.

Organising Committee: Rob Beswick, Gary Fuller, Tom Muxlow, Anita Richards, John Richer (UK ARC)

Registration

Please Register here (the meeting will be followed by a 2-day CASA workshop and one registration form is used for both events so please only fill it in once).

CASA 2010 UK ARC

CASA workshop 31 March - 01 April 2010

UK ALMA Regional Centre, JBCA, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building

A two-day workshop providing a hands-on introduction to the CASA data reduction package, which will be used for ALMA and other radio interferometry data. This follows the meeting on Science in Galaxies with ALMA.

Tutors will include: Rob Beswick, Ian Heywood, Dirk Petry, Anita Richards

Further details will be provided.  Please see CASA pages for more information.

Registration

Please Register here (there is a single form for this workshop and the preceeding meeting on Science in Galaxies with ALMA, please only fill in the form once).

Numbers for the CASA workshop will be limited to 30; anyone registering after this number has been reached will be put on a waiting list.