Splinter Meeting ALMA2040

ALMA2040: From today’s science to new frontiers in the 2040s

Time: Wednesday September 17, 14:00-15:45 CEST (UTC+2)

Room: Benigna - Theater

Convenor(s): Eva Schinnerer, Stefanie Mühle
MPIA, AIfA

This 1-day splinter meeting will explore the science opportunities that a radical upgrade of ALMA in the 2040s could enable. In response to the ESO Expanding Horizons Call for Ideas [1], the initiative ALMA2040 [2] has been started with the aim to identify the big science jumps that a next generation ALMA could or should facilitate in the (sub-)millimeter regime. In the past decade, ALMA has revolutionized our knowledge in many research areas, from forming protostellar disks to molecular clouds in external galaxies to detailed studies of the ISM in the early universe, and enabled high-fidelity imaging at the highest angular resolutions, all with substantial contributions from the German community. Therefore, we invite presentations on exciting results across the full breadth of ALMA science from the solar system to the highest redshift objects observed. Further we ask presenters to provide a short vision on which kind of ALMA upgrade could push the frontiers in their field of research. In addition to these contributed presentations, the splinter will provide an overview on the status of the ALMA2040 initiative and options for the German community to get involved.

[1] https://next.eso.org/
[2] https://www.euroalma2040.com

Program

Wednesday September 17, 14:00-15:45 ALMA2040: From today’s science to new frontiers in the 2040s (Benigna - Theater)

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