Abstract deadline for SPIE 2012

[Rob Seaman]

Hello IVOA!

What's true for VOEvent is true for the many and sundry IVOA projects as well:  creative virtual ideas are great.  Actually deploying and using systems layered on all these great IVOA ideas is even better.  The biennial SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation meeting is where the movers and shakers from major observatories come together and make things happen.  The VO has to engage with with these real-world institutions and projects if our shared ambition of reinventing the practice of astronomy is to be realized.

Anything you have to say about operations issues in the VO is likely to be fresh and new again to this audience.  And I guarantee that other projects will have useful things to say that IVOA should be listening to.  In addition to the Observatory Operations conference (thread) described below, the "Software and Cyberinfrastruce" and Systems Engineering conferences will also be of great interest to our community.  And the more traditional engineering sessions often include details about major new astronomical projects that are hard to come across any other way - projects that will steer IVOA activities in future years.

Rob Seaman
NOAO
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> From: Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu>
> Subject: Abstract deadline for SPIE 2012
> Date: December 13, 2011 10:54:59 PM MST
> To: IVOA List VOEvent <voevent at ivoa.net>
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> The deadline for SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2012 is less than one week away (19 December). Please consider submitting an abstract to "Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems IV", the hottest ticket next Summer in Amsterdam:
> 
> 	http://spie.org/as107
> 
> The Observatory Ops conference at the 2010 SPIE in San Diego featured a strong focus on time domain astronomy.  This has if anything been strengthened for the 2012 meeting and other focus areas of interest to the VOEvent community have been added, including operations topics for the Virtual Observatory and for systems of networked telescopes.  Several names from the Hotwired community should be familiar from the Program Committee.
> 
> The future of astronomy over the next several decades will pivot on time domain issues.  It is unnecessary to dwell on the connection of transient response observing modes to this year's Nobel prize in Physics.  Accomplishing the challenging science goals in the time domain will require new infrastructure, new procedures, new systems, new networks.  To be successful, all of these will require a new commitment to coherent operational strategies.  Autonomous technologies such as robotics and semantic technologies such as astroinformatics - and in particular VOEvent and related VO and exo-VO standards such as RTML and SimpleTimeSeries - need to move from the ivory towers to the telescope domes and downtown computer labs.  SPIE in general and the Observatory Operations conference in particular are where creative ideas are brought into the real world.
> 
> Please forward far and wide.
> 
> Rob Seaman
> National Optical Astronomy Observatory
> Tucson, AZ

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