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The Chile Observatory of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the Osaka Prefecture University are pleased to announce two ALMA workshops to be held in December, 2018 — the “East Asian ALMA Development Workshop 2018” to be held on December 14 - 15 (at Osaka Prefecture University), and the “East Asian ALMA Science Workshop 2018” to be held on December 17 - 19 (at the I-site Namba in Osaka). This is the annual joint ALMA science/development workshop that involves all three East Asian ALMA partners (Japan, Taiwan and Korea).

Registration will begin in early September, 2018.

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** East Asian ALMA Development Workshop 2018 **
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Date: December 14 - 15, 2018
Venue: Osaka Prefecture University

The main goal of the workshop is to discuss and identify development items that are critical in the long term development and operation of the ALMA telescope.  The topic of this year's workshop is “wide IF”.  Since the hardware/software development is intimately connected to future science requirements, active participation by scientists is highly encouraged.

We note that the annual “East Asia Sub-millimeter-wave Receiver Technology Workshop” will be held on December 11-13 in the Kanasai area.

Program Organising Committee:
Ming-Tang Chen (ASIAA)
Alvaro Gonzalez (NAOJ, Chair)
Daisuke Iono (NAOJ)
Jongsoo Kim (KASI)
Hiroyuki Maezawa (Nagoya University)
Toshikazu Onishi (Osaka Prefecture University) Nami Sakai (Riken) Yoshinori Uzawa (NAOJ)

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** East Asian ALMA Science Workshop 2018 **
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Date: December 17 - 19, 2018
Venue: I-site Namba (Osaka Prefecture University)

The main aim of this workshop is to continue to promote and stimulate international collaboration among the researchers in the EA partners, by reviewing and sharing the most recent ALMA science results in all relevant fields of astronomy.  We plan to hold discussion sessions to promote closer communication among the researchers in related fields.

Program Organising Committee:
Misato Fukagawa (Nagoya University/NAOJ) Daisuke Iono (NAOJ) Aran Lyo (KASI) Yuichi Matsuda (NAOJ, Chair) Hideko Nomura (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Hiroko Shinnaga (Kagoshima University) Toshikazu Onishi (Osaka Prefecture University) Wei-Hao Wang (ASIAA)