The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) will start Cycle 9 observations in October 2022. A Call for Proposals (CfP) with detailed information on Cycle 9 is anticipated to be issued in March 2022 and the deadline for proposal submission will be in April 2022.  The purpose of this pre-announcement is to highlight aspects of the CfP to assist with early planning.

The European ALMA Regional Centre Network is happy to announce a new series of events targeted toward early career astronomers interested in ALMA: the Meeting for ALMA Young Astronomers (MAYA). The first MAYA will take place on 2022 March 2nd to 4th and it will be fully on-line. Deadline for abstract submission is 2022 January 31st.

The ALMA Science Archive has a new functionality that will list the 20 most similar ALMA projects or publications to any projects you may be interested in. This is achieved with a sophisticated and state-of-the-art text-similarity algorithm.

For its ALMA Regional Centre at the Headquarters in Garching near Munich, Germany, ESO is opening the position of:

ALMA Regional Centre Astronomer

The closing date for receipt of applications to be considered for the position is 6 February, 2022. For more information, please see the full vacancy announcement on the ESO Recruitment Portal website.

The Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Czech ARC node are seeking a candidate for a Research associate – ARC node researcher/developer.

The successful applicant shall work on further development of the Solar ALMA Observing Mode. The research will be performed within the ESO ALMA Development Study “Towards High resolution Solar ALMA Images: Overcoming current ObsMode limitations”. More information about the vacancy, application, shortlisting and interviews can be found here. The closing date is 14 January 2022.

The European ALMA Regional Centre invites all European ALMA users to a virtual community assembly on December 17 at 11:00 CET, in connection with the imminent Cycle 9 pre-announcement. At this meeting, we will update you on the current and upcoming observing cycles and on the support from the European ARC network. In the dedicated Q&A session you will have the opportunity to ask your questions. The meeting can be accessed at this link.

The first talk of the series "ALMA recounts of cosmic conundrums" will take place December 1st at 14:00 CET and will be presented by Leen Decin (KU Leuven), who will address the question: How does dust enrichment around evolved stars work? The talk will be broadcasted live on the youtube channel of the European ARC network.

The European ARC Network invites users to an online training on how to determine the continuum level in astronomical sources on December 10, 11:00 CET [Zoom link].