Dear all,

ALMA Cycle 2 Call for Proposal has been announced, and many Cycle 0 results has started to publish these days.  On the other hand, ALMA developments are still ongoing actively, and one of the highly requested development items from scientific point-of-view is the "long baseline."  To realize the long baseline observations, understanding the effects of atmosphere to millimeter and submillimeter wave propagation, testing the phase correction methods, and characterizing the instruments are essential.

To enhance the discussion for the "long baseline," we are going to hold the
  "ALMA Workshop on Long Baseline and Phase Correction"
on Dec.25 (Wed) and 26(Thu) at the headquarter of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) in Mitaka, Tokyo.  It is planned to have talks about the long baseline and phase correction tests done so far using ALMA and other observatories, atmospheric researches, and characterizations of various instruments, followed by discussions about coming longer baseline and phase correction tests and further developments of instruments for ALMA.  We attached the current tentative program below (it may subject to change).

This workshop is supported by the ALMA Workshop grant of the NAOJ Chile Observatory.  The budget is extremely limited, so we cannot support any travel fee (if you are living in Japan, please contact about the travel support independently).

Note that this workshop will be held in English.

If you would like to attend the workshop, and/or give a oral presentation, please submit the following format to
  satoki_at_asiaa.sinica.edu.tw
(please change "_at_" to "@").  We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop.

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Name:
Affiliation:
Email address:
Oral Presentation:  YES   NO
  Title:

Workshop dinner (on Dec.25):  YES   NO
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"ALMA Workshop on Long Baseline and Phase Correction"

Date: Dec.25(Wed) & 26(Thu)
Location: NAOJ Mitaka Rinkou-Shitsu （輪講室）

Tentative Program:
12/25 (Wed)
13:00 Opening Remark
      S. Matsushita (ASIAA)
13:10 "ALMA Status and Plan"
      R. Kawabe (NAOJ)
13:40 "Phase Fluctuation at ALMA 3 km Baseline"
      S. Matsushita (ASIAA)
14:10 "ALMA Fast Switching Test Results and Future Plan"
      Y. Asaki (ISAS/JAXA)
14:40 Coffee Break
15:00 "Multi-Frequency (22 + 43 + 86 +129 GHz) Phase Correction
       with KVN"
      T.-H. Jung (KASI)
15:30 "Characteristics and Possible Problems of the ALMA Line
       Length Corrector, and the Possibilities of Other Mechanisms"
      H. Kiuchi (NAOJ)
16:00 - 17:30 Discussion
18:30 - Workshop Dinner

12/26 (Thu)
 9:00 "Effect of Liquid Water to the mm-/submm-wave Propagation"
      S. Matsushita (ASIAA)
 9:30 "Cloud Monitor and MiSTI"
      M. Momose (Ibaragi Univ.)
10:00 "ALMA Science and Requests to Long Baselines"
      K. Kohno (Univ. Tokyo)
10:30 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 Closing Remark
      Y. Asaki (ISAS/JAXA)
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Organizing Committee
  Satoki Matsushita (ASIAA), Yoshiharu Asaki (ISAS/JAXA),
  Ryohei Kawabe (NAOJ), and Daisuke Iono (NAOJ)