Meetings of Potential Interest to IVOA

[M. Ohishi]

AstroInformatics 2010 - Pasadena, CA, June 16 - 19, 2010

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/ai10/

Dear Colleague,

This is to announce an international conference on the emerging field of 
AstroInformatics.  We envision this field as a broader intellectual, 
organizational, and funding environment, within which Virtual Observatories 
serve as particular institutions and provide some fundamental functionalities 
and infrastructure.  Our goal is to both empower and engage the astronomy and 
applied computer science communities in developing and deploying new tools and 
methods, enabled by the computation and information technologies.

The conference will bring together a broad range of experts in these and related 
fields, and address a wide range of topics, including knowledge extraction from 
massive and complex data sets, trends in computing technologies, visualization, 
novel scholarly communication, collaboration, and education tools and 
environments, new and emerging modalities for scientific publishing, community 
development and sociological changes prompted by the evolving scientific 
methodology and technology,inter-disciplinary connections, etc.  The last day of 
the conference will be devoted to the Practical Astrosemantics workshop.

The conference will consist of a small number of invited review talks, and 
panel-led discussions.  Contributed papers are accepted as posters.

The attendance is limited to about 120 participants, on a first-some basis.  
Please register early if you are interested in attending.