Chilean-ALMA-Users-School

First Chilean ALMA User's School

Instituto de Física y Astronomía, Universidad de Valparaíso

November 20-26, 2025

(last update on November 17, 2025)

HOTEL IBIS VALPARAÍSO

The hotel is located at Av Errazuriz 811 , Valparaíso, Chile. GPS :-33.039295, -71.626641. It has been arranged for you to arrive on November 19th, or 20th, depending on what you declared in the registration process (see below). Note that check in starts at 15:00 and check out is latest at midday. After the first two days of the School, everyone should check out on November 22nd and leave the hotel early in the morning to start with the trip to the ALMA Observatory. After the trip to ALMA, you all will arrive to the hotel late on November 23rd, and start the School activities the next day a few hours later (see Program). Again, after two days of School, you should leave the hotel and check out on November 26th.

Those ones staying at the Hotel IBIS Valparaíso with check in November 19th are:

Adarsh Kumar - Universidad de Atacama

Aparna Nair - Universidad de Atacama

Aurélie Torti - Universidad Diego Portales

Bárbara Martínez - Universidad de Concepción

Catalina Ávalos-Vega - Universidad de Antofagasta

Constanza Castillo - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Cristóbal Braga - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Fernando Castillo - Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Hamideh Hosseini - Universidad Diego Portales

Jocabed Martinez-Lopez - Universidad de Concepción

Josefina Vera-Casanova - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Luz Maritza Caballero - Universidad de Chile

Macarena Lopez - Universidad Católica del Norte

Mauricio Baeza-Garay - Universidad de Concepción

Nicol Gutiérrez-Vera - Universidad de Concepción

Paola Villalobos - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Sidharth Aroli-Veettil - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Sophie Venselaar - Universidad Diego Portales

Valentina Araya - Universidad Andrés Bello (special check in on November 20th)

Valentina Miranda - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (special check in on November 20th)

Vicente Coronado - Universidad de Concepción

Vicente Villanueva - Universidad Diego Portales (special check in on November 20th - speaker)

Your stay at IBIS includes breakfast buffet each morning. Please note that if you incur in any additional expenses, you will be responsible for paying them.

REGISTRATION PROCESS

The registration will be held outside the Sala Juan Mouat. You will be requested to sign some documentation needed by the ALMA-ANID fund, including also the requested waiver mentioned in the application process. This registration process in mandatory for all participants. In case you need any guidance with the paperwork, please get in contact with the project secretary Lorena Ruiz <lorena.ruizir@uv.cl>.

ALMA OBSERVATORY TRIP

There is a rented bus to take us from Plaza Sotomayor (next to Hotel IBIS Valparaíso) to the Santiago de Chile Airport (SCL). Everyone should be at the Plaza 20min before departure. The bus will departure with no delay at 9:00 on November 22nd. We will fly to Calama on SKY Airlines flight H2 0262 (13:03 - 15:16). At our arrival to Calama, everyone will have transportation coordinated to San Pedro de Atacama.

The distribution and the hotels/hostels we are using are:

Hostel Lomas Sanchez (Bárbara Martínez, Jocabed Martinez Lopez, Karla Rodriguez-Ambler, Mauricio Baeza-Garay, Monserrat Martinez, Nicol Gutiérrez-Vera, Vicente Coronado)

Parina Atacama Apart Hotel (Paola Villalobos, Sidharth Aroli Veettil, Valentina Miranda, Mariangella Camus, Valentina Araya)

Hotel Manada del Desierto (Luz Maritza Caballero, Fernando Castillo, Josefina Vera-Casanova, Constanza Castillo, Cristóbal Braga, Juan Molina, Malte Brinch, Edo Ibar, Lorena Ruiz, Vicente Villanueva)

Hotel Dunas de San Pedro (Catalina Ávalos-Vega, Macarena Lopez)

Hostal Jama (Adarsh Kumar, Aparna Nair, Aurelie Torti, Hamideh Hosseini, Sophie Venselaar, Camila López, Carla Cornil-Baïotto, Diego Correa, Diego Gomez-Espinoza, José Blanco-Valdés, Pablo Fernandez)

Please note that if you incur in any additional expenses at these hotels, you will be responsible for paying them.

Next day on November 23rd, you should check out early in the morning. You should be at 7:30 (TBC) at the intersection between Pasaje los Olivos and calle Geiser at San Pedro de Atacama (the specific location is here). From there, the ALMA Observatory will facilitate a bus to take us to the OSF at 3000m.

You should read carefully the instructions provided by the ALMA Observatory before your visit. Important recommendations are highlighted in yellow in these following documents (in Spanish / in English).

At the OSF, we will visit the ALMA base camp and the laboratories, see the antennas under maintenance and their transports (if available). To go up to the ALMA site at 5000m, the AOS, you will be requested to take a medical examination (focused on blood pressure and oxygen level). You will be unable to go up in case you do not pass the examination. The ALMA Observatory will provide lunch for all of us at their OSF's canteen. Approximately at 17:30, we will be returned by bus to the same place in San Pedro de Atacama.

After the ALMA visit finishes, we will immediately take vans to go to Calama Airport (CJC). We will fly to Santiago on SKY Airlines flight H2 0255 (21:09 - 23:22). At our arrival, we have coordinated three vans which will return us directly to our hotels/homes. Please look at the list below to know in which van you should be. The next day, the activities will start a few hours later (see Program).

Van 1: (your names will appear soon in this list)
Van 2: (your names will appear soon in this list)
Van 3: (your names will appear soon in this list)

DINNER

On the afternoon of November 25th, at 19:00, we will have a dinner at Restaurant Kapura. The menu will consist of a starter, main course and dessert (you should have filled the following form https://forms.gle/dyQwUkE42oXGhby26). To arrive there, instead of walking the long stairs, it is recommended you take the "Ascensor Concepción". Otherwise, it is recommended you take an Uber or Taxi to reach the Restaurant.

OTHER SUGGESTED HOTELS

In case you are staying in Valparaíso, but not at IBIS Hotel, we recommend you the following options at the hills of Valparaíso, in Cerro Concepción, Cerro Alegre and Cerro Florida.

Hotel boutique 17

Papudo 557 Cerro Concepción

www.hotel17.cl

Hotel Boutique Acontraluz

San Enrique 473 Cerro Alegre

https://hotelboutiqueacontraluz.com-book.direct/

Ayca La Flora Hotel Boutique

Subida Concepción 35 Cerro Concepción

https://laflora-valpo.com/es/

Fauna Hotel

Pasaje Dimalow 166 Cerro Alegre

www.faunahotel.com