Meet Elizabeth Cortés, the first woman engineer at IMG
“I didn't know I was going to be a Civil Mechanical Engineer”, says Elizabeth Cortés, our Mechanical Engineer, while checking machines and antennas at OSF and AOS. Once graduated, she worked in engineering consulting firms, in industries such as metallurgy and mining, until she arrived at our observatory last...
HILSE Project: an ALMA escape into the metaverse
Our scientific observations involve a large number of steps to ensure the data quality for which we are world-renowned, but what if we could further improve productivity by simulating our operations? That's just what the recent HILSE (Hardware in the Loop Simulation Environment) project achieves: providing...
Less physics and more “physical”
Cosmos keeps us very active, but we must also take our eyes off the sky and focus on our bodies to stay healthy. And that's just what some of our colleagues from both OSF and SCO have done, and there are those who have gone far...
Do you Recommend?: the “protector” Octavio Hernández
Another year has passed and with it a new winner of the "Care" award of our Fundamental Statements. This time the award went to Octavio Hernández., who has been with us for more than 15 years as Operations and Maintenance Planner/Coordinator. An award that caught Octavio...
Making our mark at the AAS
This week, the 241st American Astronomical Society (AAS) conference was held in Seattle, USA. ALMA was part of almost a hundred research results and several presentations. In addition to three press conferences and two talks on the past and future of the observatory, ALMA data appeared...
Adding eyes in space
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...
Back to reading: the different libraries promoted at 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...