The European ARC Network is offering a series of online topical training sessions focused on the analysis of ALMA and interferometric data in general. The sessions will cover a wide range of topics of interest to the ALMA user community with the aim to help users gain expertise in working with interferometric data. Each training session will be one hour long and will include a live demo and an interactive Q&A section.
The following is a list of training sessions currently being offered. We will update this page as more sessions are offered. Click on each topic for more information about how to participate.
UVMultiFit: a versatile library for fitting models directly to visibility data (January 15, 2021 – 11:00 CET)
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We are excited to announce that Violette Impellizzeri has joined Allegro as our program manager!
Violette received her PhD in 2008 at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomie in Bonn, on the topic of “molecular tori in the core of AGN”. After her PhD, she moved as a postdoc to NRAO, in Charlottesville, to work on the Megamaser Cosmology Project. It was during this time that the ALMA telescope began construction, and as NRAO was one of the ALMA partners, she soon became excited at the idea of being part of such an important project and furthering her interferometry interests. For this reason, in 2011 she moved to the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) in Chile as a commissioning postdoc and science fellow; during commissioning she also worked on early VLBI testing, science verification, and high frequency observing techniques. In 2014, once operations began, she was hired as an operations astronomer taking on new tasks such as the Phase II Group (P2G) Lead, ‘friend of VLBI’ and Proposal Handling Team (PHT) lead. On October 1st, she joined the Allegro ARC Node in Leiden, taking on the role of Program Manager, and is very excited to be returning to Europe and connecting with the Allegro team and the ALMA scientific community in The Netherlands.
We look forward to working with Violette and wish her all the best.
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A series of pre-recorded presentations on the Cycle 8 capabilities, writing anonymous proposals, the use of the OT, and simulating ALMA observations found in this Allegro post or on our Youtube channel
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The ALMA Director, along with the regional partners, have decided to delay the proposal deadline for the ALMA Cycle 8 Call for Proposals to NO EARLIER than 15 UT on 19 May, 2020. Therefore, Allegro has decided to postpone the Proposal Preparation Workshop of March 26 to a later date, approximately 3 weeks before the actual deadline (when this is decided).
Everyone is encouraged to e-mail Allegro with any questions that they may have after watching these presentations. We will answer all questions, either by e-mail or via an online session, and also collect Frequently Asked Questions in a constantly updated document. For your convenience, we have also created a toolbox with useful links to help you prepare your proposal.
We would like to highlight the possibility to submit Large Programs on both the main array (>50 hours) and ACA stand-alone (>150 hours). PIs who are considering a Large Program are encouraged to contact Allegro early to optimize your program and explore the many ways we can support your project.
Please don’t hesitate to e-mail us if you have questions, concerns, or need support. We would be happy to set up a remote meeting with you via a video link or other remote means.
You can register for the Proposal Preparation Day at the following link.
PARTICIPANTS
Name
Institution
Michiel Hogerheijde
Leiden Observatory
Alvaro Hacar
Leiden Observatory
Andres Perez-Sanchez
Leiden Observatory
Aida Ahmadi
Leiden Observatory
Alex Hygate
Leiden Observatory
Lizette Guzman
Leiden Observatory
Christian Ginski
University of Amsterdam
Umit Kavak
SRON/Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
Sarah K Leslie
Leiden Observatory
Kimberly Emig
Leiden Observatory
Pooneh Nazari
Leiden Observatory
Marta Frias Castillo
Leiden Observatory
Leon Trapman
Leiden Observatory
Benoit Tabone
Leiden Observatory
Alice Booth
Leiden Observatory
Robin Mentel
Leiden Observatory
Jozsef Varga
Leiden Observatory
Katharina Immer
JIVE
Margot Leemker
Leiden Observatory
Anna Bartkiewicz
Nicolaus Copernicus University
Abigail Frost
KU Leuven
Daniel Harsono
ASIAA
Sofia Rojas
MPIA
Helga Denes
ASTRON
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Allegro is complying with Leiden Observatory guidelines and all staff is now working remotely. The Allegro team is available for user support, which can be requested by e-mail and will be conducted via a video link or other remote means.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions or need support!
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Allegro is hosting a QA2 training workshop for phased-ALMA data acquired during VLBI observations, which will be held in Leiden (the Netherlands), on February 24-28 2020. VLBI is an observing mode offered since Cycle 4, and the first observations were conducted in Apr 2017. The QA2 process for VLBI projects is significantly more complex than the procedure for standard projects, requiring a close loop between ARCs, JAO and VLBI correlators. The main goal of the workshop is to train ALMA astronomers so that the QA2 work load can be distributed across different regions. The training workshop will involve hands-on work on past cycles datasets. This workshop is restricted to the trained QA2 analysts in ALMA Regional Centers (ARCs).
Program
The workshop will be held in the 2nd floor of the Snellius Building, room TBD. We will meet on Monday at 09:00 for welcome and introductions and will start the program at 10:00 am. On the first day we will have introductory talks. On the second day we will have four sessions “QA2 script overview”. On the third and fourth days we will have hands-on sessions with test datasets. On the last day, we will work on documentation and discuss next steps. We count to start everyday at 9:00 and finish at 17:30. We look forward to seeing you! Follow this link to see the Programme.
HOTELSYou could consider staying either close to the Lorentz Center (about 2.5 km from the center), or near the railway (Leiden Centraal) station (where the center begins). There are regular buses from the Leiden Centraal station to the Lorentz Center (see the links below for more specific details if you will be coming by bus). In alternative, you can look into renting a bike for your stay. You can pick this up at the railway station, at the rear (exit towards the hospital). Bikes costs 7.50 euro per day or 37.50 for a week.Near the workshop venue:
-Directions to Leiden ObservatoryNote that this is not the old Observatory in the center of Leiden.There are regular buses from the Leiden Centraal station, buses 43 (direction Den Haag) or bus 57 (direction Nieuw Vennep). These take around 7 minutes. Please see the link below for more specific details if you will be coming by bus.
The venue of the workshop is the Snellius building of the Lorentz Center. The Leiden Observatory and Allegro offices are located on the 4-5th and 11th floor, respectively, of The Huygens building (in front and to the right with respect to the Snellius building).
-Directions inside the building:
Room TBD on the 2nd floor of the Snellius building: At the entrance of the building there is a reception were they can provide you with directions.
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Allegro is organizing an ALMA Science Day on Friday November 22, 2019, at Leiden Observatory.
Allegro organizes this meeting for the Netherlands ALMA community to share their exciting new science, hear the latest news from the telescope, and discuss user experiences and ALMA-related topics.
The third edition of the Netherlands ALMA Science day will be held in the 2nd floor of the Huygens Building (HL), room HL-226. We will start the program at 11:30 am with lunch. All the registered participants are invited to join us. We will offer sandwiches and fruits for the registered participants. Then, the science talks will start at 12:30. The first afternoon block of talks will finish with the presentation by this year’s invited speaker Dr. M. Zwaan (ESO). Our program is full of exciting topics including results from high-redshift studies, as well as studies of dust and molecular gas in proto-planetary disks. During the second block of talks, we will have a presentation by Dr. C. Goddi (Allegro) on the results of the Event Horizon Telescope!
We will finish the day with a Borrel at the 11th floor, next to the Allegro offices. We look forward to seeing you!
University of Science and Technology of China & Leiden Observatory
Andrew Barr
Leiden Observatory
Matthew Kenworthy
Leiden Observatory
Alexandru-Daniel Taun
University of Groningen
Vincent Icke
Leiden University
Violeta Gámez Rosas
Leiden University
Pengyu Liu
Leiden University
MARIANNA PATATOUKOU
Leiden University
Martijn van Gelder
Leiden Observatory
Micha Heilman
Leiden University
Pooneh Nazari
Leiden University
DIRECTIONS-Directions to Leiden Observatory
Note that this is not the old Observatory in the center of Leiden.
There are regular buses from the Leiden Centraal station, buses 43 (direction Den Haag) or bus 57 (direction Nieuw Vennep). These take around 7 minutes. Please see the link below for more specific details if you will be coming by bus.
Note these specify the route to the Lorentz Center, which is in the forward leaning building in the photo. The event will be held in the joining taller building – The Huygens building. Leiden Observatory and Allegro offices are located on the 4-5th and 11th floor of that same building, respectively.
-Directions inside the building:
HL-226 on the 2nd floor of the Huygens building:
At the entrance of the building there is a reception were they can provide you with directions.
The afternoon session will be held on the 2nd floor of the Huygens Building (HL), room HL-226.
The borrel will be held on the 11th floor of the Huygens Building (HL), next to the Allegro offices (HL-11.22).
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From now on, with all ALMA data delivery that you receive, you have the possibility to request its calibrated measurement set (MS).
This has to be done within a week of the data delivery date via the ALMA HelpDesk.
For data that has already been delivered, Allegro can generate the MS for you, for this email us at alma@strw.leidenuniv.nl
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For those interested, ALMA data reduction training with CASA will be offered on Friday November 2 by Allegro, the European ALMA Regional Center node in the Netherlands, at Leiden Observatory.
Program for the Netherlands ALMA Community Day can be found here.
DIRECTIONS-Directions to Leiden Observatory
Note that this is not the old Observatory in the center of Leiden.
There are regular buses from the Leiden Centraal station, buses 43 (direction Den Haag) or bus 57 (direction Nieuw Vennep). These take around 7 minutes. Please see the link below for more specific details if you will be coming by bus.
Note these specify the route to the Lorentz Center, which is in the forward leaning building in the photo.The event will be held in the joining taller building – The Huygens building. Leiden Observatory and Allegro offices are located on the 4-5th and 11th floor of that same building, respectively.
-Directions inside the building:
At the entrance of the building there is a reception were they can provide you with directions.
The event will be held on the 1st floor of the Huygens Building (HL), room HL 111.
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Allegro is organizing an ALMA Science Day on Thursday November 1st, 2018, at Leiden Observatory.
The day will start with a special ALMA Colloquium by Dr. Karin Öberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), who will tell us about the “Chemistry of Planet Formation”. We have reserved the afternoon for presentations by astronomers from the Allegro user community: We have exciting talks scheduled with ALMA results on galaxies, planet forming disks and star formation. In between and before the tea break, we will also have the latest news from ALMA followed by an open discussion on expectations and wishes for user support, and any other ALMA-related topics.
A flux-ratio anomaly in resolved CO (11-10) spectral line emission from gravitationally-lensed quasar MGJ0414+0534
Hannah Stacey
13:15-13:30
Mapping the [CII]-FIR deficit at redshift 3 on sub-kpc scales
Matus Rybak
13:30-13:45
Extremely high-velocity jets in Serpens: Chemistry and kinematics
Lukasz Tychoniec
13:45-14:00
The best of two worlds: ALMA + IRAM30m observations of the Orion Integral Filament
Álvaro Hacar
14:00-14:15
The ALMA Roadmap
Martin Zwaan (ESO)
14:15-14:35
Open Discussion
14:35-15:00
TEA BREAK
15:00-15:15
Imaging protoplanetary disks from the visible to mm wavelengths to constrain disk geometry and characterize its dust grains
Jos De Boer
15:15-15:30
Complex organic molecules in the young disk V883 Ori
Merel L.R. van ‘t Hoff
15:30-15:45
Bridging protoplanetary disk mass evolution in low- and high-mass star-forming regions with ALMA
Sierk van Terwisga
15:45-16:00
The discovery of molecular gas in the nearest cool core cluster of galaxies with ALMA
Aurora Simionescu
16:00~17:00
BORREL AT ALLEGRO PREMISES
DIRECTIONS-Directions to Leiden Observatory
Note that this is not the old Observatory in the center of Leiden.
There are regular buses from the Leiden Centraal station, buses 43 (direction Den Haag) or bus 57 (direction Nieuw Vennep). These take around 7 minutes. Please see the link below for more specific details if you will be coming by bus.
Note these specify the route to the Lorentz Center, which is in the forward leaning building in the photo. The event will be held in the joining taller building – The Huygens building. Leiden Observatory and Allegro offices are located on the 4-5th and 11th floor of that same building, respectively.
-Directions inside the building:
At the entrance of the building there is a reception were they can provide you with directions.
The ALMA Colloquium in the morning will be held at the Sitter Zaal on the ground floor of the Oort building.
The afternoon session will be held on the 2nd floor of the Huygens Building (HL), room HL-226.
The borrel will be held on the 11th floor of the Huygens Building (HL), next to the Allegro offices (HL-11.22).
HL-226 on the 2nd floor of the Huygens building:
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