Final Call for Registration: .Astronomy 2009

[Rob Seaman]

FYI:

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> From: Alasdair Allan <aa at astro.ex.ac.uk>
> Date: September 21, 2009 9:28:42 AM GMT-07:00
> To: interop at ivoa.net
> Subject: Final Call for Registration: .Astronomy 2009
>
> .Astronomy 2009
> From 30 Nov 2009 through 4 Dec 2009
>
> This is the final call for registration for the .Astronomy 2009  
> meeting to be held in the Lorentz Center in Leiden later in the  
> year. The .Astronomy conference series explores the connection  
> between astronomy and the Internet.
>
> More information about the meeting is available on the conference  
> website http://dotastronomy.com/.
>
> Workshop Description
>
> Astronomy is facing a paradigm shift. The huge quantities of data  
> that will be generated by a new generation of surveys and  
> instruments require new ways of thinking. At the same time, an ever  
> more connected world is bringing astronomy to the masses by the vast  
> possibilities of the web, via  blogs,podcasts, social networks and  
> more.
>
> Google Sky and Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope have taken astronomy  
> into the home with stunning elegance. Exciting citizen science  
> projects enlist the general public into world-class astronomy  
> research. Data mining, robotic telescopes and virtual observatories  
> will soon takepetabytes of data to a global audience of  
> professionals and amateurs. Communication and networking  
> technologies are changing science, for both researchers and the  
> public alike.
>
> In 2008 the first .Astronomy conference took place in Cardiff, to  
> discuss the ideas and methods emerging in this new era and the way  
> in which they present interesting and novel opportunities for both  
> conducting and communicating astronomy.
>
> Themes and topics
>
> * Citizen Science
> 	* Galaxy Zoo
> 	* Web-based platforms for citizen science projects
> 	* Future citizen science projects
> 	* New media for outreach and communication
> 	* IYA 2009 and the web
> * Podcasting and blogging astronomy
> * Microblogging
> 	* Networked technologies for research
> * Virtual observatory
> * Literature tools
> * Data mining
> 	* Visualisation concepts
> * Google Sky, Microsoft Worldwide Telescope
> * Visualisation as a research aid
>
> An entire day of the workshop will be devoted to an “Astronomy Hack  
> Day”, where developers can
> work together on novel astronomy-related applications. We will be  
> working with both web based
> software, software for mobile platforms such as the Apple’s iPhone  
> and Google’s Android phones, as
> well open hardware projects based on the Arduino microprocessor  
> board. We aim to lay the basis for
> several new citizen science projects during the .Astronomy week.
>
> Workshop format
>
> We plan to have talks in the morning of every day, with the  
> afternoon reserved for working break-out groups or discussion  
> sessions.  This means the number of "formal talks" will be quite  
> limited, but everyone will have a chance to speak their mind. Each  
> day will deal with one of the above themes, with the 5th day devoted  
> to the Hack Day.
>
> Scientific organizing committee
>
> Dr. Alasdair Allan, University of Exeter (@aallan)
> Dr. Sarah Kendrew, University of Leiden (@sarahkendrew)
> Dr. Chris Lintott, University of Oxford (@chrislintott)
> Dr. Stuart Lowe, University of Manchester (@astronomyblog)
> Dr. Carolina Ödman, University of Leiden/Universe Awareness  
> (@carolune)
> Mr. Robert Simpson, University of Cardiff (@orbitingfrog)
>
> .Astronomy and the International Year of Astronomy
>
> The United Nations proclaimed 2009 the International Year of  
> Astronomy (IYA2009) in celebration of the anniversary of Galileo  
> Galilei’s first astronomical observations through a telescope. The  
> vision of the IYA is to “help the citizens of the world rediscover  
> their place in the Universe through the day- and night-time sky, and  
> thereby engage a personal sense of wonder and discovery”. The  
> internet has been instrumental in bringing the activities of the IYA  
> to a huge public with blogs, podcasts andwebcasts. During  
> the .Astronomy workshop we will review the success of these  
> initiatives and discuss how to keep the momentum of the IYA into the  
> coming years.
>
> This workshop is an official IYA2009 conference.

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