Abstract deadline for SPIE 2014

[Rob Seaman]

Howdy,

The deadline for SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2014 is one week away (9 December). Please consider submitting an abstract to "Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems V", the hottest ticket next Summer in Montreal:

	http://spie.org/AS/conferencedetails/observatory-operations

The Observatory Ops conferences at the 2010 SPIE in San Diego and 2012 SPIE in Amsterdam featured a strong focus on time domain astronomy.  This has if anything been strengthened for the 2014 meeting along with other focus areas of interest to the IVOA (and VOEvent) communities, including operations topics for the Virtual Observatory and for systems of networked telescopes.  Several names should be familiar from the Program Committee.

The future of astronomy over the next several decades will pivot on big data and time domain issues.  Accomplishing the challenging science goals 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
NOAO Science Data Management
Tucson, AZ
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