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<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;" align="justify"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;" lang="en-US"><strong><em>First Announcement:</em></strong></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;" align="justify"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;" lang="en-US"><strong>Astroinformatics 2017</strong></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;" align="justify"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;" lang="en-US"><strong>Cape Town, South Africa, November 7-10, 2017</strong></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Astroinformatics 2017 building on the successful series of meetings devoted to the growing challenge of scientific exploitation of massive and complex data sets from major observational
projects at radio, optical and infrared wavelength, and from associated large-scale simulations. The meeting will continue the tradition to bring together astronomers, data scientists, statisticians, computers scientists, companies and policy makers to stimulate
a cross-disciplinary exchange in this rapidly advancing field of research.</span></div>
<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">More details of the program and logistics will be provided in a second announcement. At this point we ask you to save the dates 7-10 November to join us in Cape Town.</span> </div>
<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Information on the venue and contact information for queries can be found on the web site at</span></div>
<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;" align="justify"><a href="http://www.astroinformatics2017.ska.ac.za" target="_blank"><span lang="en-US">http://www.astroinformatics2017.ska.ac.za</span></a></div>
<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Russ Taylor and George Djorgovski, co-chairs SOC, Astroinformatics 2017</span></div>
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