ARA Fútbol: promoviendo la actividad física saludable y fortalecemos nuestras relaciones interpersonales
We invite you to join ARA’s Soccer, an opportunity to play with ALMA staff, promote respect, foster camaraderie, and enhance teamwork and collaboration. All ALMA staff, as well as ESO and AUI personnel, are welcome to participate. Laura Gómez, Activity Coordinator and Astronomer with the Data Management Group, explains:...
Sumando ojos en el espacio
We are happy to announce that ALMA signed a joint proposal agreement with telescopes from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). "This is a new service to drive more ambitious science projects that...
Retorno a la lectura: las distintas bibliotecas que se impulsan en ALMA
Several colleagues have started to create libraries of specific interests that benefit our entire community. "It all started with a simple request to acquire 1 or 2 technical books of my interest," tells us José Luis Ortiz, Digital Systems Technical Lead, who took the initiative together...
¡Revive las celebraciones de fin de año en ALMA!
A new year at ALMA came to an end, and along with it we made a recount of the most outstanding events of this 2022. With two activities held at OSF and one at SCO, we gathered again to commemorate with all our colleagues the best...
Yo recomiendo: La “teatral” Claudia Johnson
Our head of the Logistics Department Claudia Johnson (Claudia Tapia recently changed her legal name) has been working at ALMA for 13 years. But her passion for theater is lifelong. It was one of her first college choices, but she ended up studying engineering. However, the...
Todos somos “embajadores” de ALMA
Students are always very curious to know what the life of an ALMA worker is like. Not only to learn about the discoveries we make. Under this premise, Henry Tapia, Mechanical and HVAC Technics, visited five third grade classes of a school in Quilpué where his...
¿Cómo aplicamos soluciones de vanguardia al desafío en el sistema de control?
After 10 years of operation there are systems that need to be rethought and adjusted to new technologies due to obsolescence problems. One of the most critical areas is the real-time controller (known as ABMs): there are about 80 such controllers distributed throughout the observatory. To...