ADASS coming to the Netherlands in 2019!

© R. Pizzo

A delegation from ASTRON and other astronomical institutes in the Netherlands is attending ADASS XXVIII this week, at the University of Maryland (USA). ADASS (Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems) is a forum for astronomers, computing scientists, software engineers, faculty members and students working in areas related to algorithms, software and systems for the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of astronomical data. As such, ADASS is a crucial opportunity to present and advance the analysis and reduction techniques that push forward our discovery space in astronomy.

ADASS is held each year at a different hosting astronomical institution. In 2019, ADASS will come to the Netherlands and will be held at MartiniPlaza, in Groningen, between 6-10 October 2019. The conference website is already live: www.adass2019.nl. The organisation of ADASS XXIX is lead by ASTRON, in collaboration with various Dutch astronomical institutions: JIVE, University of Amsterdam, University of Groningen, University of Leiden, University of Nijmegen, and ALMA ARC. Hosting ADASS in the Netherlands in 2019 will be important to give crucial exposure to the data-analysis and software techniques developed in our country and to showcase LOFAR and APERTIF to the global technical astronomy community. Indeed, the conference programme will also include tours to our observing facilities. To both advertise next year conference and show the important technologies and astronomical software we develop in our country we have set up a booth at ADASS this year. The picture shows, together with the poster of the conference, the team who has helped in this effort and who will, with the rest of the LOC, be hard at work to ensure a very successful ADASS conference next year!