The ALMA Director, on behalf of the Joint ALMA Observatory and the partner organizations in East Asia, Europe, and North America, is pleased to announce that the ALMA Cycle 7 Call for Proposals for scientific observations is now OPEN!

ALMA Cycle 7 is currently scheduled from October 2019 to September 2020. Users of any nationality or affiliation are invited to to submit proposals before the deadline of 15:00 UT on Wednesday 17 April 2019.

For its Data Management and Operations (DMO) Division within the Directorate of Operations at its Headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany, ESO is advertising the position of:

Data Scientist (Deep Learning)

The closing date for receipt of applications to be considered for the position is 31 March, 2019

For the JAO Department of Science Operations (DSO) in Santiago and the OSF in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, the ALMA Observatory is opening the position of

Observatory System Engineer

The closing date for receipt of applications to be considered for the position is 8 April, 2019

For the JAO Department of Science Operations (DSO) in Santiago and the OSF in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, the ALMA Observatory is opening the position of

Astronomer  

The closing date for receipt of applications to be considered for the position is 8 April, 2019.  

ERIS 2019: European Radio Interferometry School to be held 7-11 October 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden

This school is the eighth of a series of summer schools supported by RadioNet. ERIS will provide a week of lectures and tutorials on how to achieve scientific results from radio interferometry.

Long baselines only in Cycle 7 and 9: 

Starting from Cycle 7 there will be a longer term array configuration schedule indicating the anticipated configurations for the following three cycles, in this case Cycle 7, 8 and 9.

For its ALMA Regional Centre at the Headquarters in Garching near Munich, Germany, ESO is opening the position of

ALMA Regional Centre Astronomer

The closing date for receipt of applications to be considered for the position is 4 February, 2019.  

The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) will start the next cycle of observing (Cycle 7) in October 2019.

A Call for Proposals with detailed information on Cycle 7 will be issued in March 2019, with a deadline for proposal submission in April 2019. This pre-announcement highlights aspects of the Cycle 7 proposal call that are needed to plan proposals. More information can be found on the ALMA Science Portal.

ALMA Cycle 7 will introduce the new capabilites, Long baselines at Band 7 and Solar observations at Band 7

Key Dates:

• 19 March 2019 (15:00 UTC) - Call for proposals and OT release
• 17 April 2019 (15:00 UTC)  - Cycle 7 deadline
• End of July 2019 - Result of proposal reviews
• 5 September 2019 - Phase 2 submission deadline
• October 2019- Start of Cycle 7 observations
• September 2020 - End of Cycle 7 observations