Organisation and management of the ALMA project

Hans Rykaczewski

doi:10.1117/12.791489

7 July 2008 Organisation and management of the ALMA project

Hans Rykaczewski

Proceedings Volume 7017, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy III; 70170G (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.791489
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is the largest astronomical ground based global collaboration. The project is a partnership of organisations and institutes located in four continents, each bringing its own organisational structures, scientific objectives, and management. This brings a richness of different experiences and expertise to the project, but is also a challenge to build and provide the public and the science users a unified project. In this talk we will review the ALMA organisation and management structure, its successes, difficulties and experience gained for future projects of similar complexity and challenge.

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Hans Rykaczewski "Organisation and management of the ALMA project", Proc. SPIE 7017, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy III, 70170G (7 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.791489

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