[Adass-announce] Abstract deadline for SPIE 2014

[Rob Seaman]

Hello ADASS!

SPIE 2014 abstracts are due December 9th.  See more details below.

(Pardon if you see multiple versions of this message, although that is likely a sign that you should consider submitting an abstract :-)

What's true for the IVOA and VOEvent is true for the many and sundry ADASS projects as well:  creative ideas are great.  Actually deploying and using systems layered on great ideas is even better.  The biennial SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation meeting is where the movers and shakers from major observatories come together and make things happen.  The ADASS community has to engage with with these real-world institutions and projects if our shared ambition of reinventing the practice of astronomy is to be realized.

Anything you have to say about ADASS-style operations issues is likely to be fresh and new again to this audience.  And other projects will have useful things to say that ADASS should be listening to.  In addition to the Observatory Operations conference (thread) described below, the "Software and Cyberinfrastructure" and systems engineering conferences will also be of great interest to our community.  And the more traditional engineering sessions often include details about major new astronomical projects that are hard to come across any other way - projects that will steer ADASS activities in future years, as should be clear from the several ADASS personages also organizing the SPIE Observatory Operations conference.

Rob Seaman
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
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From: Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu>
Subject: Abstract deadline for SPIE 2014
Date: December 2, 2013 at 9:01:57 PM MST
To: "<interop at ivoa.net>" <interop at ivoa.net>
Cc: IVOA List VOEvent <voevent at ivoa.net>

Howdy,

The deadline for SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2014 is one week away (9 December). Please consider submitting an abstract to "Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems V", the hottest ticket next Summer in Montreal:

	http://spie.org/AS/conferencedetails/observatory-operations

The Observatory Ops conferences at the 2010 SPIE in San Diego and 2012 SPIE in Amsterdam featured a strong focus on time domain astronomy.  This has if anything been strengthened for the 2014 meeting along with other focus areas of interest to the IVOA (and VOEvent) communities, including operations topics for the Virtual Observatory and for systems of networked telescopes.  Several names should be familiar from the Program Committee.

The future of astronomy over the next several decades will pivot on big data and time domain issues.  Accomplishing the challenging science goals will require new infrastructure, new procedures, new systems, new networks.  To be successful, all of these will require a new commitment to coherent operational strategies.  Autonomous technologies such as robotics and semantic technologies such as astroinformatics - and in particular VOEvent and related VO and exo-VO standards such as RTML and SimpleTimeSeries - need to move from the ivory towers to the telescope domes and downtown computer labs.  SPIE in general and the Observatory Operations conference in particular are where creative ideas are brought into the real world.

Please forward far and wide.

Rob Seaman
NOAO Science Data Management
Tucson, AZ

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