Cagliari, Italy 14–18 October 2019
Registration has now opened for the next ALMA-wide science conference and the list of invited speakers has been published at the meeting website.
ALMA is the world’s most sensitive facility for millimetre/submillimetre astronomical observations, and will soon be fully operational in all of the originally planned bands. Since its first observations, ALMA has routinely delivered groundbreaking scientific results that span nearly all areas of astrophysics. Science topics at this conference will include all fields of astronomy, from cosmology and galaxies in the distant Universe, nearby galaxies and the Galactic Center, interstellar medium and star formation in our Galaxy, astrochemistry, circumstellar disks, exoplanets, solar system, stellar evolution, and the Sun. As in previous editions of the conference series, we expect to discuss the scientific priorities for the implementation of the ALMA Development Roadmap.
ALMA2019: Second Announcement
Following conferences in Puerto Varas (Chile, 2012), Tokyo (Japan, 2014), and Indian Wells (USA, 2016), the ALMA partnership is organising the next ALMA Science Conference in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) on October 14-18, 2019. At the conference we expect to discuss the full breadth of ALMA science, with special emphasis on results from the first rounds of ALMA Large Programmes, the long baselines and high frequency capabilities, the new Solar and VLBI modes, as well as the synergy between ALMA and other observatories.
The meeting is sponsored by ESO, INAF, iALMA, and Radionet. In particular, this event has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730562 (RadioNet).
List of important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2019
Deadline to request financial support: 15 May 2019
Notification of talk selection: 1 July 2019
Regular registration deadline: 31 July 2019
Late registration deadline: 13 September 2019
Child care:
Child care service is available for children from 10 months to 10 years old.
Financial support:
Limited funding through RadioNet is available to provide financial support in the form of a registration fee reduction or financial support towards child care. In order to apply for this funding, send an email to with the subject line "Request for financial support - ALMA 2019 conference". In your email you should specify your needs and a justify your request. Note that we can only provide financial support to contributions or participants linked to RadioNet, and recipients will at least need to satisfy one of the following criteria:
- oral presentation by a user of RadioNet infrastructures (EVN, e-MERLIN, IRAM, LOFAR, Effelsberg, APEX) presenting the scientific/technical results from the use of the infrastructure;
- oral presentation on results from the RadioNet development activities (AETHRA, BRAND EVN and RINGS);
- exceptional speaker experts from non-RadioNet institutes bringing added value (specified) for the RadioNet community through their talk.