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---+ IVOA IAU Liaison Committee

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---++ Purpose

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) promotes research, communication,
education and development in astronomy, through international cooperation.
The IVOA has been engaging with the IAU to support the broad astronomical
goals of the IAU, and to promote the value of IVOA activities to the IAU and the
astronomy community. So far, a functional working group on the Virtual
Observatory has been established within Division B (Facilities, Technology and
Data Science), of the IAU; an MoU has been signed between the IVOA and the
IAU Office of Astronomy for Development to support its activities. IVOA members
gave presentations at sessions of the IAU General Assembly in August 2022 and
supported the organization of the Division B meeting at the General Assembly.
The purpose of this group, the IVOA-IAU Liaison Group (IILG), is to provide future
coordination of these activities.

---++ Membership

Chair: [[BruceBerriman][Bruce Berriman]]

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---++ Charter

The [[%ATTACHURL%/IVOA-IAU_Liaison__Group_V1_20230807.pdf][charter]] of the IVOA-IAU Liaison Committee is available [[%ATTACHURL%/IVOA-IAU_Liaison__Group_V1_20230807.pdf][here]].

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---++ Activities
---++ *IAU General Assembly 2024*
   * Mark Allen (CDS) and Bruce Berriman (USVOA/NAVO) were co-organizers of a Division B: Parallel Session 3B meeting entitled "Community Engagement , Open Science and the Virtual Observatory." There were six presentations in this session:

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   * 10.30 – 10.35 Introduction to the Virtual Observatory and the Goals of the Meeting - Mark Allen

   * 10.35 – 10.50 The VO and Education: Data accessibility in developing nations and access by underprivileged groups within developed nations (Priya Shah, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad)

   * 10.50 – 11.05 Enabling Future Breakthroughs in Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Astronomy (Brad Cenko, NASA/GSFC)

   * 11.05 – 11.20 Big Data and Open Science and Engagement in Radio Astronomy (Russ Taylor, University of Cape Town University of the Western Cape)

   * 11.20 – 11.30 The VO, FAIR Principles and Open Science (Bruce Berriman, Caltech/IPAC)

   * 11.30 - 11.45. Scalable visualization of large distributed data sets enabled by Virtual Observatory standards and tools (Mark Allen, Strasbourg astronomical observatory)

      The talks can be found at https://zenodo.org/records/13550169. ( [[https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13550168][10.5281/zenodo.13550168]])

   * Bruce Berriman gave an invited presentation "The Benefits of the Virtual Observatory to Underserved Communities" as part of Focus Meeting-1, Part Harnessing ground-based optical telescopes. The presentation can be found at https://zenodo.org/records/13381868 ( [[https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13381867][10.5281/zenodo.13381867]]). A paper has been accepted for publication in the "Transactions of the IAU." The paper can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07973.
   * An interactive side session led by CDS entitled "Virtual Observatory Tools for Students and Educators in Africa" was presented by <p>Mark Allen, Matthieu Baumann, Manon Marchand , Pooja Sharma (Strasbourg astronomical Data Centre, CDS), Priya Hasan (Maulana Azad National Urdu University Gachibowli, Hyderabad), and Bruce Berriman (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) with the support of Patricia Whitelock (South African Astronomical Observatory and University of Cape Town). The aim of the workshop was toto enable the participants to discover and use openly available data for their research projects and educational activities.</p>
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&nbsp;IAU General Assembly 2022
   * Bruce Berriman gave two presentations

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