First official meeting of the newly instituted INAF Scientific Unit (USC VIII) dedicated to computing with the aim of contributing to the coordination of the work, competences and skills present in the INAF structures in the various ICT areas starting for data towards hardware, software and networks architectures and infrastructures to grow a computing ecosystem around the research and development in astronomy and astrophysics.
The assembly will offer a great opportunity after pandemic to meet all INAF people involved in the different thematic connected to the data and computing technologies affecting the whole data life cycle.
This includes all INAF people working in digital technologies for the research, development and innovation activities in astronomy and astrophysics, including for example data management and archives, computation in the computing continuum with infrastructures, facilities, data centers and software tools, networks and hardware, etc, but also in key and new areas of computing like AI techniques/technologies and quantum computing and the transversal fields (e.g., security, interoperability and standards, open source and open data in the context of open science practices).
Moreover, the meeting will also be the occasion to meet people of the INAF structures involved in the design, deployment, management and support of the digital infrastructures, tools and services for the whole personnel.
Furthermore, the assembly will host the special sessions for the administrative personnel focused on the digitalization of public administrations and the challenges related to the deployment, management, use and support for administrative tools, software and platforms.
The main objectives for the assembly are to enforce the expertise and competences, also through the offerings of specific training sessions, to disseminate experiences, activities and best practises around common needs and problems and to promote discussions in the several thematic for all the personnel involved in INAF. This could help the establishment or consolidation of collaboration and facilitate the information exchange.
The particular location could promote the "team-up" action among those interested or working in specific fields, and also allow for professional development; in this regard, participation in the entire week is strongly encouraged.
We invite the participants to the submission of abstracts in any of the themes.
Thanks to the support of USC VIII, there is no registration fee for INAF personnel.
SOC: Serena Pastore (chair) on behalf of the USC VIII steering committee Ugo Becciani, Giancarlo Brunetti, Andrea Bulgarelli, Deborah Busonero, Alessandro Costa, Anna Di Giorgio, Cristina Knapic, Marco Landoni, Andrea Possenti, Giuliano Taffoni
LOC: Serena Pastore, Cristina Knapcic, Sabrina Carraro, Federica De Guio, Fabrizio Lion, Barbara Neri, Amedeo Petrella, Danilo Selvestrel.
