Science with the
Atacama Large Millimeter Array

The meeting Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array will take place on 6-8 October 1999 at the Carnegie Institution of Washington building at 16th and P Streets, NW, Washington, D. C. under sponsorship of Associated Universities, Inc. and NRAO. This historic neo-classical auditorium is across the street from the AUI offices, just a few blocks from the White House and DuPont Circle.

Nearly 100 persons have registered for the meeting at this time. We are planning for a meeting with 150-200 people in attendance. The auditorium will hold 400 people; the banquet is planned to seat 200. Note that for security reasons, entry to the building is not via the columned portico on 16th Street, but via a side entrance on the right side of the building as one faces it. If you have not yet registered, please do so, as fees will increase after 20 August, 1999. You may do this over the Web at the site whose URL is given above.

Conference posters will be distributed next week.

In this announcement we include information on registration, the format of the meeting, information on abstracts and the Proceedings, the hotel and banquet arrangements, some travel information, and a summary of important deadlines. This announcement will be available at the WWW site, with updated information as available.

This is addressed to all of those who have registered, who are on one of the organizing committees, who have been invited to present a paper at the conference, or who have requested to be kept informed of the conference progress.

Registration
The registration fee is $75 before 20 August, rising to $95 after that date. You may register at the URL http://www.mma.nrao.edu/science/register.html Please do so if you have not done so already. The list of participants is updated weekly; please check this at: http://www.mma.nrao.edu/science/registration/participant_list.html if you cannot recall if you have registered or not.

On Thursday evening, 7 October, there will be a banquet at the Omni Shoreham hotel. While AUI is underwriting much of the cost of this banquet, there will be a $40 charge for those attending to make up the difference. You may pay this with your registration fee. Accompanying persons wishing to attend the banquet should be indicated and the fee incremented accordingly.

Information on payment of fees may be found at: http://www.mma.nrao.edu/science/payment.html You may pay by bankcard, check, or wire transfer according to information presented there.

Meeting Format
The meeting will consist of invited talks on the main topics, which comprise a hefty portion of the science which ALMA will address:

• Investigation of galaxies near the time of their formation at very high redshift;
• Detection and study of planets around nearby stars;
• Study of star formation by, for example, high-resolution submillimeter observations of protostars, protoplanetary disks, and outflows; and
• Study of the origin, distribution and evolution of the elements and their isotopes;

Posters will be erected on boards in the reception hall outside the auditorium and remain up for the duration of the meeting, 8:00 am 7 October through 7:00 pm 8 October. Coffee and snacks will be provided in this area in the mornings and the afternoons, allowing time for poster viewing. A list of poster paper titles is available at: http://www.mma.nrao.edu/science/poster_sessions.html which is also updated at timely intervals.

Confirmed invited talks (30 minutes including questions) include:

• Science with Millimeter Arrays -- A. Sargent, Caltech
• Protogalactic Dawn -- David Spergel, Princeton
• Galactic Morning -- Andrew Blain, Cambridge
• Molecular Emission from Young Galaxies -- Stephane Guilloteau, IRAM
• The Central Regions of Active Galaxies-- N. Scoville, Caltech
• The Central Region of the Milky Way -- R. Genzel MPIfEP
• Nearby Galaxies -- M. Thornley, NRAO
• Molecular Disks -- A. Dutrey, Grenoble
• The Formation of Planets -- A. Boss, DTM Carnegie
• Near-Stellar Gas and Dust-- Lee Mundy, U. Maryland
• Planetary Signatures -- Nuria Calvet, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
• Primitive Solar System Objects -- D. Jewitt, U. Hawaii
• Astrochemical evolution of star-forming regions -- E. van Dishoeck, Leiden University
• High Mass Star Formation -- Karl Menten, Max Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie
• Star Formation at High Resolution-- Neal Evans, U. Tx.
• New Molecular Views of Southern Star Forming Regions -- Y. Fukui, Nagoya
• Interferometric Views of Star Formation-- R. Plambeck, Berkeley
• Clusters Forming Low Mass Stars -- Philippe Andre, Saclay
• Jets and Flows from Young Stars -- Shu, F. California at Berkeley
• Interferometric Imaging of Molecular Envelopes with and without YSOs -- N. Ohashi, ASIAA
• Dispersal, winds, shocks, dust destruction -- David Neufeld, Johns Hopkins
• Magnetic Fields -- R. Crutcher, U. of Illinois
• Formation and Structure of Molecular Clouds as Revealed by Sub-mm Line Observations -- S. Yamamoto, University of Tokyo
• Stellar Mass Loss -- H. Olofsson, Stockholm Observatory
• Formation of Dust -- Xander Tielens, Groningen
• Molecules -- T. Millar, UMIST

Abstracts and Proceedings
Please provide an abstract for your poster. These will be available on-line and referenced at the ADS astronomy electronic literature service. LaTeX style forms are available at the WWW site; a booklet of posters will be made available at the meeting.

We remind that abstracts of your talks or posters are DUE NO LATER THAN :

for publication in the booklet. The booklet which will be made available to participants at the Conference and electronically on the web site of the Conference about one week in advance. A copy of the Conference Abstracts will be provided to the Astrophysics Data System (ADS). These will have to be prepared in LaTeX following instructions that are on the WWW.

We have proposed to PASP that they publish the Proceedings. This will include ten pages for invited articles and four pages for poster contributions. The deadline for submitting manuscripts is 21 December 1999. To help the editors with the preparation of the Object index, it is asked that the authors provide separately the list of individual astronomical sources discussed in their paper.

It is desirable that these proceedings appear as soon as possible in order to reflect the current status of the field. Therefore, the deadline for reception of all electronic files will be :

In order to keep the registration fee low, we have not included a copy of the book in the registration fee. We will however take orders for the Proceedings when we have acceptance of our proposal from the PASP. The costs per volume is $46.80 for each participant plus $6.00 shipping/handling for US or foreign SURFACE MAIL; or $9.00 Canada/Mexico AIR MAIL; or $15.00 Foreign AIR MAIL. Please note that volumes mailed SURFACE MAIL take 2 to 8 weeks to arrive, depending on destination. Typically, volumes are mailed out approximately 70 days after we receive the camera-ready hard copy. Further, the cost of the book to each participant is the same regardless of the number of pages contained therein. If a person is a nonparticipant and is not a member of the ASP, the cost of the book is $52.00 each.

Accommodations
The hotel for the conference is the Omni Shoreham Hotel, located off Connecticut Avenue in Rock Creek Park. This is situated about 1.3 miles from the meeting site, the Carnegie Institution. One can either walk this, or take the Metro subway one stop from Woodley Park to Dupont Circle followed by a short walk, or take a bus. Parking near the conference center is extremely limited. Parking at the hotel is available for guests at $14 per day.

A special rate, 2/3 the normal rate, has been negotiated by AUI with the hotel. When reserving a room, please be sure to mention that you want a room within the AUI block of rooms. You may contact the hotel at

• Telephone: (202) 234-0700, or
• Facsimile: (202) 756-5145

The number of rooms at this special rate is limited in number and in time availability. BE SURE TO RESERVE A ROOM BEFORE 10 September 1999!

RESERVE YOUR ROOM in the ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES INC BLOCK BY 10 September 1999

A map is available at the WWW site. The hotel is denoted by the flagged address; the conference site by the orange number '1'.

Washington D. C. is served by three major airports.

1. Dulles International Airport to the west handles many international flights, with convenient ground connections to the city.
2. National Airport lies just across the Potomac from the Mall, with convenient Metro access to the city.
3. Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) Airport lies to the north, and has convenient rail access to the city. BWI is served by Icelandic Airways and by Southwest Airlines, along with most major airlines, and frequently boasts the most reasonably priced fares.

More detailed instructions will be sent in a final announcement.

Social Events

Members of Congress, their staffers, and constituents will be invited to a reception in the House Science Committee Room at the U. S. Capitol from 5:30 to 7:30 pm on 6 October. Owing to the size of the room, this will be by invitation only. If you would like to introduce your representative in Congress to the ALMA project, please invite your representative and accompany him/her to the reception. Please let us know that you have done this. A list of Representatives on appropriate committees may be found at: http://www.mma.nrao.edu/science/congress.html The Representatives and/or their staff are of course most welcome at the meeting also.

A press conference will be held at the Carnegie Institution on the morning of 7 October to introduce the ALMA project to the media. The subjects to be covered are under development.

A reception and banquet for meeting participants will be held at the Omni-Shoreham Hotel beginning on the evening of 7 October.

In case of further questions, please, contact the Organizing Committee.