Plans for the Seventh Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS), to be held 14-17 September 1997 in Sonthofen, Bavaria, Germany, are well underway. The ADASS Conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the processing of astronomical data. ADASS is hosted jointly this year by the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility and the European Southern Observatory. Conference sponsors include the European Southern Observatory, the European Space Agency, Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, Sun Microsystems Deutschland, CREASO (IDL Germany), Sybase, DRACO Software, and Pink Aviation Services.
The ADASS '97 Program Organizing Committee consists of the following members: Rudi Albrecht (ST-ECF/ESO), Roger Brissenden (SAO), Tim Cornwell (NRAO), Dick Crutcher (Illinois), F. Rick Harnden - Chair (SAO), George Jacoby (NOAO), Jonathan McDowell (SAO), Jan Noordam (NFRA), Dick Shaw (STScI), Richard Simon (NRAO), Britt Sjöeberg (ST-ECF), Doug Tody (NOAO), and Dave Van Buren (IPAC). The Local Organizing Committee is chaired by Rudi Albrecht.
The Conference program includes invited talks, contributed oral presentations, poster papers, and computer demos. The special topics for this year's Conference include Astrostatistics, Computing Infrastructure, Computational Astrophysics, Educational and Public Information Activities, Future Trends in Astronomical Computing, and Software Systems and Applications. Invited speakers for this year's Conference include:
Carol Christian (STScI)--"NASA Education/Public Outreach & the Internet"
Rick Fisher (Green Bank)--"Real-time Telescope Operation"
Fionn Murtagh (Univ. Ulster)--"Wavelets (on Grey-scale Photograph-like Images)"
Michael Norman (Illinois/NCSA)--"Early Universe Simulation"
John Nousek (Penn State)--"NASA Space Data Environment"
Peter Quinn (ESO)--"ESO S/W Development"
Joe Schwarz (ESO)--"Running Networks with Minimum Manpower"
Lister Staveley-Smith (Parkes)--"AIPS++ for Pipe-line Data Reduction"
Although the final program was still in preparation as this Newsletter article was written, over 125 abstracts have been submitted for either oral presentations or poster papers. In addition 10 computer demonstrations are planned. Five Birds-of-a-Feather (BOFs) sessions are planned: AstroBrowse, AIPS/AIPS++, IRAF/TWG, Scheduling and Pipelines, and IDL; others are still being considered. BOFs are organized by ADASS participants and are usually about one hour in duration.
The ADASS Conference will be held in Sonthofen, Bavaria, about 100 km southwest of Munich near the Bavarian Alps, at the Allgäu Stern Hotel. Late registrations for the meeting are being accepted up until 4 September 1997.
The Converging Computing Methodologies in Astronomy (CCMA) Conference will be held in Sonthofen 17-18 September following ADASS '97. Information on this Conference can be found at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/CCMAFinalConf.html.
Details pertaining to registration, hotel reservations, abstracts, and the ADASS meeting in general are available at the Web page address below.
Contact: Britt Sjöeberg
ST-ECF/ESO
Karl-Schwarzschlid-Str. 2
D-85748 Garching bei M\"unchen
Germany
e-mail: adass@eso.org
Phone: +49-89-32006-291
Fax: +49-89-32006-480
WWW: http://ecf.hq.eso.org/adass/
Rick Harnden, Chair
Program Organizing Committee