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FAQs

  • Inscription
    • When is the application deadline? August 15th 2025
    • When will I be notified? MID-September
    • Who is invited to apply for the summer school? PhD students or active astronomers who have little or no experience in millimeter/submillimeter astronomy.
    • Is there an age limit?  No
    • Who should not apply?  Experts in mm-astronomy, persons not active in astronomy.
    • What can I do in order to increase my chances to be accepted for the school? Explain your research interests and, in particular, your interest in mm-/submm-astronomy.
    • Can I get funding? We have limited funding possibilities to support lodging. Please indicate in the registration form whether you apply for such funding.
  • Travel
    • How do I get to Granada?
      • Granada airport is about 12 km from the city center. There are several flights a day to Barcelona, Madrid and also flights to London, Liverpool, Milan (Bergamo) and Frankfurt (Hahn). There is a regular shuttle from the Granada Airport to downtown (price 3.-€.) with a stop in front of the Hotel Turia: Av. Constitución.
      • Málaga has a busy international airport with direct and cheap flight connection to many European cities. The best way to go from Málaga to Granada is by coach: ALSA
      • For more information, see our dedicated page on Access to Granada.
    • How should I arrange my flights? 
      • Arrival: You should arrive in Granada on Friday, October 31st. Reception and Dinner will take place at the hotel Turia Granada starting at 9:00pm.
      • Departure from hotel Turia on Friday 7th. The school will finish at about 12am.
    • Please indicate in your travel plan, in case you are vegetarian or have other diet requirements.
    • Which clothes do you recommend?  Granada city is not cold, with average min/max temperature of ~5/15º C. However, the telescope is at 2850m altitude. There, weather conditions throughout early November are fresh-cold with risk of rain and snow. We also recommend to bring warm clothes, sun glasses, sun lotion, and mountain or solid shoes.
  • Attendance
    • Do I have to organize my hotel/meals? No, all participants (from outside Granada, see below) must stay at the hotel Turia in Granada. Full board and lodging per person and night is 130 Euro (VAT included) in double room and single occupancy, and XXX Euro (VAT included) in double room and double occupancy. Please indicate your preference at the hotel registration.
    • I live in Granada. Do I have to stay in the Hotel? No, but you do have to pay 38 Euro to cover the cost of lunches and coffee breaks.
    • How is the lodging payment process? You must pay the hotel directly. Contact details will be provided.
    • What about health insurance? IRAM has no health insurance for visitors. Either you should have a travel insurance or, if you are in a European social security system, bring the necessary international documents or cards.
    • Should I bring my laptop? Yes! we are no longer providing workstations for data reduction. Rather, each user should bring his/her own laptop with the IRAM data reduction software GILDAS in advance.
    • During the working sessions, you will reduce and analyse the data observed at the 30m telescope with the Gildas software package. For your comfort and future reuse we advise you install Gildas on your laptop. If Gildas is already installed on your laptop, please upgrade it to one of the versions described below. The installation steps for Max OS, Linux, and MS Windows are described here:
      www.iram.fr/~gildas/dist/gildas.README

– Mac users, please install/upgrade the Gildas version to sep25 (TBC) or newer. The latest version is automatically selected by MacPorts.
– Linux users, please pick up the sep25 version or newer at this url www.iram.fr/~gildas/dist/ e.g. www.iram.fr/~gildas/dist/gildas-src-sep25a.tar.xz
– MS Windows users, we also offer an installer but with minimal support. If possible, you should better install and run Gildas in a Linux virtual machine.

We suggest you install Gildas at your institute before the school, since network traffic will be limited and building time can be large on some systems. In case of trouble, please feel free to contact gildas@iram.fr for support, or ask the Gildas people during the school.