2016 NAASC Workshop on Molecular Gas in Galactic Environments
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) - North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) is delighted to announce a Call for Abstracts for the 2016 NAASC Workshop on Molecular Gas in Galactic Environments to be held 4 - 7 April 2016 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
The spectral line sensitivity and spectral grasp of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have resulted in the identification and imaging of more than 40 molecules outside the Milky Way. This international Workshop will focus on the character of the molecular gas in the varied environments in which these molecules are found beyond our Galaxy and will bring together ALMA, Very Large Array (VLA) and Green Bank Telescope users and potential users of future facilities (a next generation VLA, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope, etc.) to consider what capabilities or upgrades to these instruments might best facilitate the study of extragalactic molecules.
Major topics of discussion at this NAASC Workshop will include:
• Exploring the relationship between molecular distributions and physical processes in those galaxies
• Investigating the roles of molecular variation in extreme metallicity environments
• Examining the existence and cause of isotopic gradients within galaxies
• Scrutinizing variations in molecular excitation, both rotational and vibrational
• Seeking evidence for and causes of molecular abundance gradients
• Identifying molecules useful as probes of nuclear infall and outflow
• Determining the prospects of molecules as probes of black hole masses.
Confirmed invited speakers for this Workshop include:
• Francesco Costagliola (Chalmers, Onsala Space Observatory)
• Nanase Harada (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
• Christian Henkel (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)
• Leslie Hunt (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
• Takuma Izumi (University of Tokyo)
• Adam Leroy (Ohio State University)
• Sergio Martin (Joint ALMA Observatory)
• Gergö Popping (European Southern Observatory)
• Dominik Riechers (Cornell University)
• Nick Scoville (California Institute of Technology)
• Jean Turner (University of California, Los Angeles)
This four-day NAASC workshop will include several invited talks designed to guide the discussions of relevant questions to be addressed. Contributed abstracts will be solicited, and the Science Organizing Committee will select a subset for oral presentations, with the rest accepted as posters. Registration will include workshop materials, daily breakfast, breaks, and a welcome reception. An optional conference dinner will also be available.
Submissions by students and early-career researchers are especially encouraged. To promote their attendance, students will be offered a discounted registration rate and a free double-occupancy room in the Workshop hotel for the duration of the Workshop.
Abstract submission is now available via the 2016 NAASC Workshop website at: http://go.nrao.edu/xgal2016
The abstract submission deadline is 15 February 2016.
The spectral line sensitivity and spectral grasp of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have resulted in the identification and imaging of more than 40 molecules outside the Milky Way. This international Workshop will focus on the character of the molecular gas in the varied environments in which these molecules are found beyond our Galaxy and will bring together ALMA, Very Large Array (VLA) and Green Bank Telescope users and potential users of future facilities (a next generation VLA, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope, etc.) to consider what capabilities or upgrades to these instruments might best facilitate the study of extragalactic molecules.
Major topics of discussion at this NAASC Workshop will include:
• Exploring the relationship between molecular distributions and physical processes in those galaxies
• Investigating the roles of molecular variation in extreme metallicity environments
• Examining the existence and cause of isotopic gradients within galaxies
• Scrutinizing variations in molecular excitation, both rotational and vibrational
• Seeking evidence for and causes of molecular abundance gradients
• Identifying molecules useful as probes of nuclear infall and outflow
• Determining the prospects of molecules as probes of black hole masses.
Confirmed invited speakers for this Workshop include:
• Francesco Costagliola (Chalmers, Onsala Space Observatory)
• Nanase Harada (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
• Christian Henkel (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)
• Leslie Hunt (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
• Takuma Izumi (University of Tokyo)
• Adam Leroy (Ohio State University)
• Sergio Martin (Joint ALMA Observatory)
• Gergö Popping (European Southern Observatory)
• Dominik Riechers (Cornell University)
• Nick Scoville (California Institute of Technology)
• Jean Turner (University of California, Los Angeles)
This four-day NAASC workshop will include several invited talks designed to guide the discussions of relevant questions to be addressed. Contributed abstracts will be solicited, and the Science Organizing Committee will select a subset for oral presentations, with the rest accepted as posters. Registration will include workshop materials, daily breakfast, breaks, and a welcome reception. An optional conference dinner will also be available.
Submissions by students and early-career researchers are especially encouraged. To promote their attendance, students will be offered a discounted registration rate and a free double-occupancy room in the Workshop hotel for the duration of the Workshop.
Abstract submission is now available via the 2016 NAASC Workshop website at: http://go.nrao.edu/xgal2016
The abstract submission deadline is 15 February 2016.
When
4
–
7 April 2016
Where
Charlottesville, Virginia