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                                        Pre-Registration

                                           ADASS XXXI
    Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference Series

                                       24 - 28 October, 2021
                  The Westin Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

                                      http://adass2021.ac.za

Action required by June 20.

Mark your calendars for the 31st annual conference on Astronomical Data
Analysis
Software and Systems (http://adass.org).  The conference will be held on
24-28
October 2021, and hosted by IDIA, RATT, and SARAO.

We are preparing for the possibility of a hybrid meeting, with a limited
number
of participants meeting physically (while observing social distancing
precautions), and the rest of the world connecting online. We feel this
would be
particularly beneficial to the South African astronomy community, as well
as to
participants from other countries who are prepared to travel to Cape Town
in
these uncertain times.

If there are not enough participants to make a hybrid meeting practical,
ADASS XXXI will revert to a full-on virtual meeting, as in 2020. It is
vital
for us to gauge the interest in attending a physical meeting. We must
therefore
ask everybody who is potentially interested in attending *physically* to
pre-register before 20 June via the following link:

http://www.adass2021.ac.za/pre-registration/

Participants who haven't pre-registered for an in-person attendance will,
most
likely, not be offered the opportunity to attend physically.  If you plan
to
attend remotely, you are also invited to pre-register.

Key themes for ADASS XXXI are:
- Solutions for workflow management and reproducibility
- Understanding and improving machine learning
- Modernizing and maintaining telescopes
- Building accessible and friendly user interfaces
- FAIR standards for astronomical data
- Teaching resources for astroinformatics and virtual observatory
- Image processing for the public and scientists
- Big data: How to deal with the 5 Vs (volume, velocity, variety, veracity,
value)
- Citizen science in astronomy

Please help us gauge the in-person attendance by pre-registering.

Best regards,

Kathleen Labrie on behalf of the ADASS POC,
Oleg Smirnov and Russ Taylor on behalf of the ADASS XXXI LOC.

Program Organising Committee (POC)
   Christophe Arviset (ESA-ESAC)
   Pascal Ballester (ESO)
   Sébastien Derrière (CDS)
   Kimberly DuPrie (STScI)
   Mike Fitzpatrick, POC Exec (CSDC, NSF's NOIRLab)
   Stephen Gwyn, Deputy Chair (CADC)
   Kathleen Labrie, POC Chair (Gemini, NSF's NOIRLab)
   Brian Kent (NRAO)
   Nuria Lorente (AAO-MQ)
   Jessica Mink (SAO)
   Fabio Pasian (INAF)
   Francesco Pierfederici (IRAM)
   Roberto Pizzo (ASTRON)
   Jose Enrique Ruiz (IAA-CSIC)
   Yuji Shirasaki (NAOJ)
   Keith Shortridge (K&V)
   Oleg Smirnov (Rhodes University + SARAO)
   Mark Taylor (Bristol)
   Russ Taylor (IDIA)
   Peter Teuben (UMD)
   Xiuqin Wu (IPAC)

Local Organizing Committee (LOC)
   Lucian Botha (SAAO)
   Roger Deane (IDIA + UP + WU)
   Benjamin Hugo (Rhodes + SARAO)
   Carolina Odman-Govender (IDIA + UWC)
   Athanaseus Ramaila (Rhodes + SARAO)
   Mario Santos (UWC)
   Oleg Smirnov, Co-Chair (Rhodes + SARAO)
   Russ Taylor, Co-Chair (IDIA + UCT + UWC)
   Mattia Vaccari (IDIA + UWC)

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Links:

Venue:
   The Westin Cape Town,
https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/cptwi-the-westin-cape-town
Organizing institutions:
   IDIA, https://www.idia.ac.za/
   RATT, https://www.ru.ac.za/physicsandelectronics/radioastronomycentre/
   SARAO, http://sarao.ac.za
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