[Adass-announce] ADASS 2008

[Arnold Rots]

June 19th, 2008

We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for the 18th
annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems
(ADASS). The conference will be held in Quebec City at the Loews hotel
during 2-5 November 2008.
  
The ADASS Conference Series provides a forum for scientists and
computer specialists concerned with algorithms, software, and
operational systems that focus on the acquisition, reduction,
analysis, storage and dissemination of astronomical data. The program
includes invited talks, contributed papers, display sessions,
tutorials, and computer demonstrations, as well as special interest
("Birds of a Feather" or BOF) meetings. These activities aim to
encourage communication between software specialists, scientists, and
users, and also to stimulate further development of astronomical
software and systems. This year developers will again have the
opportunity to present Focus Demonstrations: a place in the conference
schedule and a dedicated meeting room for demonstrating their
applications to a small, focused audience.

The featured themes for this year's program are:
    * Astronomical algorithms
    * Future large projects
    * Software engineering in astronomy:
    * Enabling Web technologies

We are in progress in preparing a very nice and useful tutorial for
the afternoon of the Nov 2.
  
We invite you to attend and participate in this exciting conference.

Important dates are:

    *June 15,       2008 *:  Registration opens 
    *August 15,     2008 *:  Deadline for abstract submission
    *September 1,   2008 *:  Deadline for demo submission
    *September 15 , 2008 *:  End of early registration


At this time we solicit proposals for Birds of a Feather sessions. If
you are interested in proposing a BoF, please read the full
solicitation.

The ADASS 2008 web site (see http://adass.org/) will be updated
regularly during the next few weeks to include information about the
conference program, the current list of attendees, and the submitted
abstracts. Please review the calendar of important events and
deadlines.

We look forward to seeing you in Quebec City!

Daniel Durand
Chair, Local Organizing Committee

Arnold Rots
Chair, Program Organizing Committee