BIWEEKY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO 28 July 2009 - 10 Aug 2009 ******************************** THIS FORTNIGHT************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------- The upcoming "Assembly, Gas Content and Star Formation History of Galaxies" conference has over 200 pre-registrants, Note that preregistration is merely an expression of interest. To attend you must actually register at http://www.nrao.edu/meetings/galaxies09/registration.shtml Registration for scientific presentations (oral or posters) will continue until August 7, after which (space permitting) general registration will be open. Late registration (space permitting) will start on August 21, with a significantly higher registration fee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Past issues of this Calendar may be viewed at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html *************************************************************************** General Happenings Photos of activity may be found at NRAO eNews: http://www.nrao.edu/news/newsletters/ Sky: Venus is rising with Orion while Mars and Aldebaran precede it in the morning sky. Jupiter is near opposition, in Capricorn and in fact occulting the 6th magnitude star 45 Cap on Aug 3 as seen from Europe or North America. From South America or Europe a faint penumbral eclipse of the moon may be perceived around a midtime 0f 0:39 August 6th UT. A calendar of NAASC events may be found at: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/naasc/alma_calendar.shtml *************************************************************************** DAILY CALENDAR (Times EDT/EST ) see https://wikio.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/AlmaCalendar ****************************** UPCOMING EVENTS ************************* Jul 30 ALMA Board Telecon Sep 2-3 CSV Review, Santiago Sep 21-25 Assembly, Gas Content & Star Formation History of Galaxies Sep 28-30 IRAM 30th Oct 4 Spectral Line workshop, Koln Nov 11-12 ALMA Board face-to-face meeting, Santiago Nov 16- Annual ALMA External Review, Santiago ******************************* TECHNICAL NEWS ************************* *****************************ALSO OF INTEREST*************************** The deadline for submission of observing proposals on IRAM telescopes, both the interferometer and the 30m, is 17 September 2009, 17:00 CEST (UT + 2 hours). The scheduling period extends from 1 Dec 2009 - 31 May 2010. Proposals should be submitted through our web-based submission facility by following the links from our new website http://www.iram-institute.org to Science users and then Proposals. This page also gives links to the proposal templates and to detailed information on time estimates, special observing modes, technical information and references for both the IRAM interferometer and the IRAM 30m telescope. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Nobeyama 45-m telescope call for proposals * Deadlines: General program (1st): 2009-09-01 (Tue) 6:00UT scheduled during Jan to Mar 2010 General program (2nd): 2009-12-10 (Thu) 6:00UT scheduled during Mar to May 2010 Short program : 2009-12-22 (Tue) 6:00UT scheduled during Mar to Apr 2010 Details will soon be posted at: http://www.nro.nao.ac.jp/~nro45mrt/prop/index-e.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** Please send information for upcoming calendars by Friday evening of the preceding biweekly period to Jennifer Neighbours or Al Wootten via e-mail (jneighbo at nrao.edu or awootten at nrao.edu). The calendar will be issued between late Friday and sometime on Monday by e-mail to all NRAO scientific staff members and anyone else interested. A specific mailing list, alma-info, has been created for anyone wishing to receive it. Past issues are available at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ALMACalendars.html