On September 8, ALMA East Asia Development Workshop 2011 was held at the NAOJ Mitaka Campus with about 40 participants including researchers and engineers from Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss future technical and scientific requirements of ALMA to keep its cutting-edge scientific capability in the operation phase. At the workshop, they discussed how they improve or enhance ALMA’s existing functions for the future scientific observations.

The picture shows a presentation at the ALMA East Asia Development Workshop 2011. [Photographed by Tomomi Sato]