Entries by Allegro

EAS Meeting

In July the European ARC network set up a booth at the annual European Astronomical Society (EAS) meeting, where conference participants could pick up a variety of ALMA related stickers, watch an informative video about ALMA and the ARC network, or enjoy a casual chat with one of the ARC representatives. This was a great […]

Updates from the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade Workshop

In June ESO hosted a workshop focused on ALMA’s upcoming Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU). The workshop, titled “The promises and challenges of the ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade”, presented the upgrade and showcased the science that will be enabled in the upcoming years. It was also an opportunity to solicit input from the ALMA community that […]

European ALMA School

In June the European ALMA regional center organised the first European ALMA school, hosted by the UK regional node in Manchester. The school was a full week of lectures and hands-on activities related to interferometry, and ALMA specifically. Topics ranged from calibration techniques, to the specifics of the products that ALMA delivers, to an overview […]

CASA Training Event

Allegro will host a training event on 23 October introducing the software packages that are commonly used to work with ALMA data: CASA and CARTA. We will briefly introduce ALMA and Allegro, and start looking at ALMA data using these software packages. The aim of the workshop is to get researchers started using ALMA data, […]

Recap on joint ALMA+JWST Science day in Groningen, January 2024

On January 30, 2024, Allegro – in collaboration with JWST colleagues – organized its first Netherlands JWST-Allegro Science Day at Kapteyn Institute, in Groningen. The Joint Science Day was inspired by the recent introduction of “Joint Proposals” at ALMA and other major observatories and was aimed to inspire collaborations while highlighting already existing scientific synergies. […]

New Staff & Farewell

Allegro’s newest member is Dr. Megan Lewis who joined in February as a postdoc. Megan received her Bachelor’s degree from Vassar College and her Master’s and PhD degrees from the University of New Mexico in the US. While in New Mexico she was also a Reber predoctoral fellow with the NRAO. She then joined the […]