ADASS XXIV

Registration for ADASS 2014 in Calgary, Alberta is now open at www.adass2014.org. The deadline for early registration is 15 August 2014.

The conference will be held from 5-9 October at the Westin Hotel in Calgary. Please plan to arrive on Saturday (4 October) for the welcome reception. The meeting starts on 5 October with registration and presentations and ends on Thursday October 9 with a workshop on cloud technologies and OpenStack – the open-source computing platform.

The deadline for abstracts for oral presentations for the ADASS sessions from 4-8 October is 10 July 2014.

We have a block booking for the conference at the Westin. Please help us reach our booking by staying at the Westin and book as early as possible. If you plan to stay for the October 9 workshop it is particularly important to book early, as the number of rooms available at the conference rate for Wednesday night is limited.

Themes for ADASS XXIV are:

• Big Data Challenges
• Large surveys
• Web services and APIs
• How we code today / Data Analysis / Pipelines
• meta-data management
• (2D & 3D) visualisation for astronomy
• File formats for astronomical data

The roster of confirmed invited speakers includes:

• Jacek Becla (SLAC)
• Chris Beaumont (CfA/Harvard)
• Roman Chyla (CfA/SAO)
• Darron Croton (Swinburne)
• Frossie Economu (NOAO)
• Uwe Lammers (ESAC)
• Patrick Ogle (IPAC)
• Joe Miller (CfA/SAO)
• Rob Simmonds (Calgary)
• Jason Surace (IPAC)

We look forward to seeing you there.

Russ Taylor, Jeroen Stil (co-chairs, Local Organizing Committee)