No other event draws the number of elite researchers, innovators, and companies whose collective efforts push the frontiers of space and enable the building and maintaining of the important telescopes of the world. The 2012 conference, held in Amsterdam this year, will cover most of the relevant technological areas in astronomy.Telescopes and Systems + Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave + Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray + Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V + Optical and Infrared Interferometry IV + Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation V + Adaptive Optics Systems  IV + Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems V + Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management IV + Software and Cyberinfrastructure + Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation