AstroInformatics 2010

California Institute of Technology
Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pasadena, CA, USA – June 16-19, 2010

CACR is co-sponsoring an international conference on the emerging field of AstroInformatics. AstroInformatics is envisioned as a broader intellectual, organizational, and funding environment, within which Virtual Observatories serve as particular institutions and provide fundamental functionalities and infrastructure.  Our goal is to both empower and engage the astronomy and applied computer science communities in developing and deploying new tools and methods, enabled by the computation and information technologies.

The conference will bring together a broad range of experts in these and related fields, and address a wide range of topics, including knowledge extraction from massive and complex data sets, trends in computing technologies, visualization, novel scholarly communication, collaboration, education tools and environments, new and emerging modalities for scientific publishing, community development and sociological changes prompted by the evolving scientific methodology and technology, inter-disciplinary connections, etc.  The last day of the conference will be devoted to the Practical AstroSemantics workshop.

The conference will consist of a small number of invited review talks, and panel-led discussions.  Talks will be given by several CACR staff members, including Matthew Graham, Santiago Lombeyda, and Mark Stalzer

For more information or to register, visit http://www.astro.caltech.edu/ai10