CfP 2025 Information Meeting
ESO is organizing on 27 May, 2025 an information meeting for institutes interested in the 2025 Call for Proposals for ALMA development studies. The meeting aims at providing in-depth information on the application process, and bringing together teams to have consolidated proposals.
The call for proposals is now open, with submission deadline on Wednesday 27 August 2025 at 11:00 CEST.
The presentations from the information meeting can be found below:
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Scientific priorities in the ALMA2030 roadmap | ESO room: Pavo E.2.01 |
María Díaz Trigo |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Introduction on the expected scientific/technical content of the proposals, evaluation criteria | Carlos De Breuck | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Introduction on the CfP application process | Alessandro Martis (ESO Contracts & Procurements) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Overview of the wide band sensitivity upgrade | Martin Zwaan | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Front-end and back-end development priorities solicited in this CfP | Gie Han Tan | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Development on Advanced Data Products | Eric Villard | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Development on the ALMA archive | Felix Stoehr | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | The ALMA Data Processing System | Sandra Castro | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | General discussion | ||
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Catered lunch and small breakout sessions to interact with EASC and C&P staff | See note below |
Note: there will be a special session for online participants to ask questions to Contracts and Procurements from 12:30 to 14:00. Please contact us if you would like to receive the link to this meeting. Of course, online participants are invited to ask questions during the open sessions too.