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BoF: The Future Of ADASS

Nuria Lorente (AAO, ADASS POC)

(@NoTruerAlien)

The Present and Future of ADASS• Motivation• The ADASS Survey (2014)• The POC• How the programme is put together

• Key Topics and Invited speakers• Contributed talks

• Conference content• The Future

Motivation• ADASS is the major conference for our community• Conference series is in its 24th year

• that’s no reason for complacency

• With shrinking (travel) budgets we find ourselves choosing our conferences very carefully

• ADASS must keep up with the needs of • the ADASS community• the astronomical community• our changing demographics

• The POC are always open to suggestion and criticism BUT1. We tend to predominantly hear the loudest (unhappiest!) voices

2. We cannot read minds!

The Survey• Early 2014• 140 people responded• 65% in the first 2 days

• 14% (19 ppl) – 0 attendance• 12% (17 ppl) – 1 attendance

Who are we?• 69% astronomers• 38% software engineers• 30% programmers• 29% software architects• 28% managers• 22% computer scientists• Database specialists,

Instrument scientists, Archive specialists, Data (librarian, analyst, system scientist, scientist)

• Post-doc, Student

Who are we? Survey data

ADASS Programme Organising Committee

Executive:

Carlos Gabriel (ESA-ESAC)

Daniel Durand (CADC)

Tony Krueger (STScI)

Brian Glendenning

(NRAO)

Betty Stobie (NOAO)

Pascal Ballester (ESO)

Sébastien Derrière (CSA)

Jim Lewis(IoA)

Nuria Lorente (AAO)

Ray Plante (NCSA)

Arnold Rots (SAO)

Keith Shortridge (AAO)

Jeroen Still(U. Calgary)

Tadafumi Takata(NAOJ)

Russ Taylor(U. Cape Town)

Harry Teplitz (IPAC/Caltech)

POC Chair Deputy chair Secretary Treasurer

ADASS Programme Organising Committee• Traditionally from sponsoring & major participating institutes +

those with an interest in ADASS• Informal terms:

• Executive:• Chair (5 years)• Vice-chair (2 years)• Secretary (2 years)• Treasurer (2 years)

• Ordinary members (9 years)

• Survey:• 67% - Governance should remain as it is now• 18% - POC should be elected from and by community• 17% - POC terms should change• 10% - Executive positions should be elected by the community• 2% - Other

Key Topics & Invited Speakers

Key Topics – Survey Submissions• 88 people submitted Key Topic suggestions

Key Topics & Invited Speakers• We want to hear your suggestions

• Speak to someone on the POC• Email the POC ([email protected])• Future tools – Apgree, etc

How Are Contributed Talks Selected?

How Are Contributed Talks Selected?

How Are Contributed Talks Selected?

How Are Contributed Talks Selected?

How are Contributed Talks Selected?• There are only ~30 talk slots• To maximise your chances of getting a talk:

• Submit only 1 abstract for consideration• Spend a little time working on your abstract (patronising - sorry!)• Contribute to the proceedings

• Suggestion from this week:• Choose n - (3-5) talks in the normal way• Choose the remaining 3-5 randomly

Conference Content• Reasons for not coming to ADASS:

1. Budgetary constraints

2. Conference content

• Lack of substantive content:• astronomy / computer science content• something more than an update report on pet project• need greater focus on algorithms, statistics, analysis methods, data

science etc

• Lacks broad appeal / relevance• We’re a broad audience!

Conference Content: Suggestions• Introspection: should we rethink how we present our work

in the allotted 12 min?• identify the ADASS relevant portion• 2 min describing instrument & project• 14 min on the intricacies of algorithm, etc.• assume that people have read the abstract and know the

superficial stuff already? HARD!

• Keynote speaker – 1/conference, 1hr, in-depth• Wider discussion

• At the end of each session?• At the end of the conference?

• Tutorials• Ongoing series – 2h basic; 1h advanced

Comments, Questions & Discussion

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