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1995 Software Conference Update (1Jun95) (from CCS, NOAO Newsletter No. 42, June 1995) Plans for the Fifth Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) are well underway. The Conference, hosted by the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, will be held in Tucson on 23-25 October 1995. Additional sponsors for the Conference include the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, the International Gemini 8-Meter Telescopes Project, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the National Research Council of Canada, the National Science Foundation (tentative), the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the University of Arizona Steward Observatory, and the Vatican Observatory. Our corporate sponsors include Research Systems, Inc. The ADASS Conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software, and software systems employed in the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. The Program Organizing Committee for ADASS V has the following members: Rudi Albrecht (ST-ECF/ESO), Roger Brissenden (SAO), Tim Cornwell (NRAO), Dennis Crabtree (DAO/CADC), Bob Hanisch---Chair (STScI), Rick Harnden (SAO), Gareth Hunt (NRAO), George Jacoby (NOAO), Barry Madore (IPAC), Dick Shaw (STScI), Karen Strom (U. Massachusetts), and Doug Tody (NOAO). The Local Organizing Committee is chaired by Jeannette Barnes (softconf@noao.edu). The Conference program will include invited talks on special topics, contributed talks, poster papers, and software demonstrations. The special topics and invited speakers for ADASS '95 are listed below: Archives for Ground-Based Data Dennis Crabtree (DAO/CADC) Fabio Pasian (Trieste) Electronic Information Systems and Services Peter Boyce (AAS) Mark Johnston (STScI) Real Time, Near-Real Time Systems Bob Garwood (NRAO) Kim Gillies (NOAO) John McGraw (UNM) Science Software Applications Dick Crutcher (UIUC) George Jacoby (NOAO/KPNO) Tod Lauer (NOAO/KPNO) Marc Postman (STScI) Software Development Methods James Coggins (UNC) Brian Glendenning (NRAO) Several birds-of-a-feather sessions (BOFs) are also planned. BOFs generally run 1 1/2 to 2 hours, often concurrently with other BOFs, and can be any format defined by the organizer. BOFs for ADASS V include Software System Futures (Jan Noordam), IDL (Wayne Landsman), FITS (Peter Teuben and Don Wells), and an IRAF/STSDAS/PROS/ASC/CEA Users Meeting. If anyone has a suggestion for a BOF or would like to organize one, please let us know as soon as possible so it can be included in the program (contact hanisch@stsci.edu or softconf@noao.edu). Two tag-along workshops (before and after the Conference) are currently being discussed: an Object Oriented Software Workshop is scheduled for Sunday, 22 October, and an IRAF Developer's Workshop is planned for Thursday, 26 October. A preliminary program that includes a call for papers, registration materials, and local hotel information will be mailed to the Conference mailing list in May. The early registration deadline along with the abstract and demo deadline is 15 August. Registrations will be accepted after that date but at a higher registration fee. Further information about ADASS '95 is available by sending e-mail to softconf@noao.edu or by using a Web viewer to browse the Conference home page URL: http://iraf.noao.edu/ADASS/adass.html. Registration materials and other information will be made available by anonymous FTP to iraf.noao.edu in the directory iraf/conf/adass-95. Jeannette Barnes, George Jacoby, Doug Tody
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