AstroInformatics 2012
Redmond, WA, Sep 10-13 (Mon-Thu), 2012
Logistics:
The bus from the Marriott Redmond Town Center will leave for MSR at 7:45 am
sharp. It will stop at the Courtyard hotel en route. Breakfast will be
served at the meeting venue.
Conference motivation and goals:
Astroinformatics is an emerging discipline at the intersection of
astronomy/astrophysics and applied computer science and engineering. It is
one of a growing number of science informatics disciplines that represent
scientific and methodological responses to the challenges and opportunities of
an exponential growth of data volumes, rates, and complexity. These fields -
often unified under the term of e-Science, or the Fourth Paradigm - are
facilitating the transition to a data-driven, computationally enabled science
in the 21st century.
Astroinformatics is a broad, open, scholarly and organizational environment
for the data- and computation-intensive astronomy in this rapidly evolving
scientific and technological landscape. It is intended to be more inclusive
and less structured than the earlier concept of a Virtual Observatory,
engaging a much broader community of researchers and educators, both as
contributors and as users of the new tools, techniques, and massive data
resources.
This is the third in an annual series of international conferences
( AstroInformatics 2010,
AstroInformatics 2011)
that serve as discussion forums for development of relevant ideas and foster
new collaborations in this arena.
Please use the Facebook forum to discuss the relevant issues, make
suggestions, etc., before, during, and after the conference:
AstroInformatics
Reception: evening of Sep 9
Sep 10-12: Main conference
Conference dinner: evening of Sep 10
Sep 13: Connecting Research with Computational Education
Sep 14: WorldWide Telescope Workshop at Univ. of Washington Planetarium
A joint event with Gaia-GREAT-ITN/ GREAT-ESF / LSST / Microsoft Research:
Astro-Visualisation School
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