IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM111)

Tuesday, 21 March 2023 @ 20:00 UT

Contents

Logistics

Agenda

1. Roll call and agenda

• Regrets:

2. Review and Approval of TM110 Minutes (PDF)
3. Review of Exec actions for TM111 (PDF)
4. Status of Hungarian VO within IVOA
5. Update of the IVOA logo
6. IVOA-IAU Liaison Group - Review of draft charter
7. Project reports [Significant Events Only]
8. Overall TCG status
9. Approval of new IVOA Recommendation(s) [Standing Item]
10. CSP status
11. Future Interop meetings: Northern Spring 2023: Italy
12. Renewal of WG/IG Chairs and Vice-Chairs

• • DM WG - Laurent Michel, Jesus Salgado - no extension
  • GWS WG - Giulllano Taffoni - no extension / Note on D Morris V Ch till 2025
  • Semantics WG - Markus Demleitner, Carlo Maria Zwölf - - no extension
  • Theory IG - V Chair OPEN (since 9/2022)
  • Operations IG - Mark Taylor, S Groom - no extension
  • Radio IG - M Lacy, F Bonnarel - have extension available

13. IVOA website

• draft new website available → here
• comments on new site available → here

14. Future Interop meetings: Northern Fall 2023: Tucson
15. Date of the next Exec meeting
16. AOB
17. Review of new actions

Reports from the Projects

ArVO

AstroGrid

Australia-VO

BRAVO

China-VO

CVO

Euro-VO

ESA

France VO

GAVO

HVO

Japan-VO

NLVO

RVO

SA^3

SVO

+ First Latin American VO school. (14-16 March, 2023) ( https://svo.cab.inta-csic.es/svoMeetings/index.php?mid=58&action=page&pagename=I_Escuela_Latinoamericana_VO/Presentation)

- With >160 registered participants (and an average attendance of 80-90) it was the largest VO school ever organized.

- Participants from 17 countries, most of them early-career people.

- High percentage (60%) of VO newcomers.

- Very positive feedback. Many people interested in a second edition covering new topics.

- The school was conducted in Spanish so part of the material is in Spanish.

- The school was recorded and the recorded sessions are available from the school web page so the reached audience can even be larger.

+ EAS2023 SS4 "Science with the Virtual Observatory" ( https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2023/session.jsp?id=SS4)

- The deadline for abstract submission was March 8th.

- We received 16 requests for talks and 7 for posters.

- In the coming days the reviewing process will begin.

VO-India

VObs.it

Report from the TCG

• Last TCG meeting - Mar 08 - Main theme Interop planning; next mtg - Apr 05
• For Interop:
  • Schedule has been filled in - https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2023?redirectedfrom=IVOA.InterOpMay2023DRAFT
  • Highlights - 2 Science Plenaries, 1 DOI Plenary, New comers session, lunchtime newcomers question corner
  • Dave Morris will lead the Sci Platform plenary. It has GWS, Apps, Ops, CSP combined group sponsorship
  • WG/IG asked to put out calls to their groups for participation; provide abstracts for talks
• LOC put out the 2nd call on Monday - 73 participants as of today

Report from the CSP

Grid and Web Services Working Group

• ACTIONS_for_TM111.pdf: ACTIONS_for_TM111.pdf