[Adass-announce] ADASS - Update on registration

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                          Message from the LOC

                               ADASS XXXI
    Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference Series

                         24 - 28 October, 2021
               The Westin Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
                  and online, for remote participation

                         https://adass2021.ac.za



This is a message from the Local Organizing Committee.

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Dear ADASS participants and potential participants --

We've had an excellent uptake for in-person participation, well in excess
of pre-registration numbers. We are reaching venue capacity, and we have
therefore closed in-person registration.

If you would still like to attend in person but have not registered, please
e-mail loc at adass2021.ac.za, and we will put you on the standby list.
(Priority
will be given to those who have pre-registered for in-person attendance
after
the original pre-announcement.) Conversely, if you have registered for
in-person but are no longer able to attend, please let the LOC know asap.

For those who have already registered, if you're still waiting for your
invoice, please excuse the delay. Please note that your registration is
considered accepted from the moment you register on the website, even if
you get the invoice later.

We look forward to welcoming everyone to Cape Town.

LOC & POC


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The list of invited speakers for this year's key themes.

- Rachel Street     (Solutions for workflow management and reproducibility)
- Michelle Lochner  (Understanding and improving machine learning)
- Eric Murphy       (Modernizing and maintaining telescopes)
- Kumiko Usada-Sato (Building accessible and friendly user interfaces)
- Simon O'Toole     (FAIR standards for astronomical data)
- Chenzhou Cui      (Teaching resources for astroinformatics and virtual
                     observatories)
- Urvashi Rao       (Image processing for the public and scientists)
- Emily Lakdawalla  (Image processing for the public and scientists)
- Andy Connolly     (Big data: How to deal with the 5 Vs (volume, velocity,
                     variety, veracity and value)
- Meg Schwamb       (Citizen science in astronomy)


To accommodate both the in-person attendees and as many of the virtual
attendees, the talks will be scheduled during the following time slots:

   6:00 -  8:30 UTC
   8:30 - 11:00 UTC
  18:00 - 21:00 UTC

The tutorials are scheduled on Sunday, Oct 24th, planning to use the
following time slots:

Tutorials, Sunday (Oct 24)
   13:00 - 14:30 UTC
   15:00 - 16:30 UTC
   18:00 - 19:30 UTC

Further details regarding the format and connectivity will follow in the
coming weeks, along with the complete program.

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)
   Sunil Chandra (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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