Plans are underway for the 8th Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) to be held 1-4 November 1998 in Urbana, Illinois, USA, at the Illini Union on the University of Illinois campus. The conference is hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the University of Illinois Astronomy Department. The ADASS Conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the processing of satronomical data.
The ADASS '98 Program Organizing Committee consists of the following members: Rudi Albrecht (ST-ECF/ESO), Dick Crutcher (Illinois), Brian Glendenning (NRAO), F. Rich Harnden - Chair (SAO), Sally Heap (GSFC), George Jacoby (NOAO), Jonathan McDowell (SAO), Glenn Miller (STScI), Jan Noordam (NFRA), Richard Simon (NRAO), Doug Tody (NOAO), and Patrick Wllace (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory). The Local Organizing Committee members include Doug Roberts, Dick Crutcher, Ray Plante, Harold Ravlin, and Melanie Loots.
The Conference program is still in the planning stages, but will include invited talks focused on timely topics chosen for ADASS '98, contributed oral presentations, poster papers, and computer demos. Several Birds-of-a-Feather (BOFs) sessions are also planned these short, one hour or so long, sessions are organized by ADASS participants. If you are interested in organizing a BOF please send e-mail to the Conference POC Chair, Rick Harnden (frh@whitman.harvard.edu). The Proceedings of the Conference will be published as part of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, as were those of previous Conferences.
Details pertaining to registration, hotel reservations, abstracts, travel support, and the ADASS meeting in general are available at the ADASS '98 Web site: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ADASS98/.
Rick Harnden, Chair
Program Organizing Committee