SMA-Taiwan Call for Proposals

The SMA-Taiwan (SMA-T) invites students' thesis projects. This opportunity is open to students in Taiwanese institutions.

  • The SMA-T student thesis projects are aimed at providing opportunity of writing proposals, running observations, calibrating and imaging the data, and publishing his/her own data. Since the duty cycle of the SMA is much shorter than that of ALMA, students can complete their projects within their limited time scales, such as 2 years in their master course.
  • The thesis projects have a chance to get up to 4 tracks per semester and over semesters.
  • The available SMA-T time for the regular projects will be reduced. It is expected that only up to 4 tracks per semester will be available for regular projects, depending on the time request for the key and students thesis projects.

There will be a call for the regular and student thesis project every semester. This is for the 2025A proposal deadline.

The proposals of student thesis projects will be reviewed locally by Taiwanese TAC alone.

The proposing and reviewing procedures of the SMA-T student thesis projects are as follows.

  1. E-mail a notice of intent to Hsi-Wei Yen, 1 week before the deadline.
  2. Full submission of the proposals before the regular call for proposal.
  3. Evaluation by SMA-T TAC.
  4. Sorting out the conflict of interest with the regular proposals by the joint SMA TAC (if necessary).
Submission of Notice of Intent (NoI)
The main purpose of the NoI is to allow us to distinguish the student thesis projects from the regular projects. A short general description of science goals would be sufficient.
Submission of the proposals
The full proposals must be submitted by the deadline of the regular science proposals and on the SMA Observer Center (SMAOC). Proposals are submitted through the My Projects page under each individual PI's SMA Project Account. The student thesis proposals and regular proposals should not exceed 4 pages, comprising up to 2 pages of scientific and technical justification, up to 2 pages of figures, tables and references.
Ongoing key projects
2023A-A012: STREAMS - STar-forming Region Energetics Across Multiple scales (PI: Seamus Clarke)
2024A-A008 : A SMA Investigation of the Evolution of ISM Density in AGN Host Galaxies (PI: Bovornpratch Vijarnwannaluk)

Hsi-Wei Yen
posted on 2025 Feb 12