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Cedercreutz (Tieteiden talo)
Cedercreutz
Tieteiden talo
Kirkkokatu 6
00170 Helsinki
Description
This event will bring together the Nordic and Baltic (sub-)mm communities to foster scientific and technical synergies around the future AtLAST facility, and to strengthen connections across the broader Nordic 'astro family'.
In person attendance is encouraged (no registration fee) for a better experience and collaboration opportunities, but since physical space is limited, we are offering a hybrid event.
Key dates
- 1st October. Abstract submission opening.
- 1st November. Deadline for abstract submission
- 15th November. Full program available.
- 1st December. Deadline for registration
- 14th-15th December. Nordic AtLAST Nights
About AtLAST
The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST; http://www.atlast-telescope.org) will be the most advanced 50-m-class single-dish telescope dedicated to exploring the (sub-)mm sky, powered by renewable energy, and enabling transformational science across multiple areas of astronomy.
With its exceptional sensitivity and unprecedented field of view (~2°), AtLAST will probe the dust and gas properties of large populations of high-redshift galaxies, and study the circumgalactic and interstellar media in nearby galaxies — and in our own — thanks to its superb sensitivity to faint extended emission. AtLAST will also provide new insights into the Solar chromosphere, the chemical complexity of our Solar System and the Milky Way, and will revolutionize studies of the transient (sub-)mm sky through the combination of large-format cameras, high sensitivity, and excellent spatial resolution.
The AtLAST study has been funded by two EU projects, with the current (second) project running through 2028. The consortium includes many international partners and it is explicitly aiming to expand towards a larger partnership, including countries that are not yet formally part of the project. The overall coordination of AtLAST is based in University of Oslo, Norway, making Nordic engagement a natural and timely connection for the project. While AtLAST does not yet include a Finnish institute in the collaboration, hosting this meeting in Finland is intended to catalyze new scientific and technical links and to engage Nordic and Baltic researchers and engineers interested in contributing to AtLAST. Through these Nordic–Baltic AtLAST Days, we aim to present the project and its current developments, foster new collaborations, and broaden the community engaged in AtLAST across the Nordic and Baltic regions.
Funding
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101188037 (AtLAST2). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the European Research Executive Agency can be held responsible for them.
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