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The Italian ALMA Regional Centre and the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania organize a Training School “Astrochemistry with ALMA”.
The School is funded by the EU through ITN LASSIE Network and COST Action CM0805.

Date: 13 – 17 June 2011

Venue: Research Campus, CNR Bologna

The School will consist of general introductory lectures which will present the ALMA project and its potential impact on astrochemistry.
The focus will be on chemistry in star-forming regions, in envelopes of evolved stars, and in comets.

The School is open to students of all backgrounds (experimental, observational, theoretical) and is meant to provide researchers not actively involved in interferometry with basic knowledge for successful use of ALMA.

Group assignments: Hands-on problems (Ceccarelli)

Announcement

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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is one of the largest ground-based astronomical projects of the next decade. The ALMA project is an international collaboration between Europe, East Asia and North America, in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. Construction of the array started in 2003 and will be completed in 2013. In 2011 it will be possible to perform the first scientific observations with the array, albeit with a limited number of antennas, configurations, and receivers. The Call for Proposals for this “Early Science” is expected to be issued at the end of the first quarter of 2011. ALMA will operate at wavelengths between 0.3 and 9.6 millimeter and will provide astronomers with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. This will allow us to unravel the chemical composition of the molecular gas surrounding young stars, establish the role of the freeze-out of gas-phase species onto grains, and the re-release of these species back into the gas phase in the warm inner regions of circumstellar disks, and to study the formation of complex organic molecules. ALMA will have the large total bandwidth, high spectral resolution, and sensitivity needed to detect the myriad of lines associated with heavy, pre-biotic molecules such as those which may have been present in the young Solar System. ALMA will also allow us to study the formation of molecules and dust grains in the envelopes of evolved stars and to refine chemical models of planetary atmospheres and of comets in our own Solar System.

The Training School will consist of general introductory lectures which will present the ALMA project and its potential impact on astrochemistry. The focus will be on chemistry in star-forming regions, in envelopes of evolved stars, and in comets.

The School is open to students with different backgrounds (experimental, observational, theoretical) and is meant to provide researchers not actively involved in interferometry with basic knowledge for successful use of ALMA.

Registration

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To register, please use this form. The deadline for registration is 25 March 2011. There is no registration fee. An e-mail will be sent to confirm the reception of your registration.

The School can accept a maximum of 50 participants. Immediately after the deadline, the organizers will inform those who have been selected to attend; the others will be put on a waiting list.

Selected participants will have to make their own hotel reservations. We have made agreements with various hotels in Bologna (see here for the full list) for the School participants. To make use of these special arrangements, the selected participants must contact the hotel before 15 April 2011.

If needed, participants may ask for financial support. In that case, they should contact Dr. M.E. Palumbo, INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania ( mepalumbo@oact.inaf.it; tel: +39 095 7332242; fax: +39 095 330592).

Invited lecturers and topics

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• R. Neri (IRAM, F): Introduction on interferometry;
• L. Testi (ESO): ALMA project, state of the art;
• P. Andreani (ESO): ALMA Regional Centers, technical characteristics;
• P. Caselli (University of Leeds, UK): From ISM to prestellar cores;
• M. Beltran (INAF, I): Molecular complexity: hot cores and hot corinos;
• D. Semenov (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, D): Disks with ALMA;
• J. Boissier (ALMA Regional Center, I): Comets with ALMA;
• J. Cernicharo (Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, E): Chemistry in envelopes of evolved stars and spectral surveys;
• R. Hudson (NASA/Goddard, USA): Chemistry triggered by cosmic energetic particles;
• V. Casasola (ALMA Regional Center, I): ALMA proposal preparation;
• A. Mignano (ALMA Regional Center, I): ALMA data reduction software

Lecturers

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	Speaker	Title
Lect_01	Neri	Introduction to radioastronomy
Lect_02	Testi	Introduction to ALMA
Lect_03	Caselli	Interstellar medium & chemistry
Lect_04	Caselli	Molecular astrophysics
Lect_05	Beltran	Star formation
Lect_06	Neri	Interferometry I
Lect_07	Caselli	Pre-stellar cores
Lect_08	Ceccarelli	Proposal, grant and CV writing
Lect_09	Andreani	ALMA Regional Centres
Lect_10	Beltran	Hot cores/corinos
Lect_11	Neri	Interferometry II
Lect_12	Semenov	Dust in disks
Lect_13	Cernicharo	Cernicharo: Evolved stars
Lect_14	Mason	Cosmic rays chemistry I
Lect_15	Semenov	Gas in disks
Lect_16	Mason	Cosmic rays chemistry II
Lect_17	Boissier	Comets I
Lect_18	Semenov	Planet formation
Lect_19	Boissier	Comets II
Lect_20	Cernicharo	Spectral surveys with ALMA
Lect_21	Casasola	ALMA proposal preparation
Lect_22	Mignano	ALMA data reduction

Literature

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references for assignments:

• Agundez-etal-2008
• Awad-etal-2010
• Bergin-Tafalla-2008
• Bockelee-Morvan-etal-2000
• Caselli-etal-2002
• Ceccarelli-etal-2007
• Ceccarelli-etal-2010
• Cernicharo-etal-2000
• Crovisier-2004
• Falgarone-etal-2009
• Garrod-Herbst-2006
• Guelin-etal-2008
• Scalo-Elmegreen-2004
• Semenov-etal-2004
• Semenov-etal-2008
• Thi-etal-2010