VO Special Session for IAU Prague

August 2006

Working Documents in planning phase

Update Reports

Report to IVOA Exec October 2005

Report to SOC and IVOA Exec January 2006

Report to SOC and IVOA Exec May 2006

S.O.C. Membership

Andy Lawrence (chair SOC)	UK	al@roe.ac.uk
Masatoshi Ohishi	Japan	masatoshi.ohishi.nao.ac.jp
Francoise Genova	France	genova@cluster.u-strasbg.fr
Ray Norris	Australia	Ray.Norris@csiro.au
Attila Meszaros	Czech Republic	meszaros.cesnet.cz
Robert Hanisch	USA	hanisch@stsci.edu
Peter Quinn	Germany	pjq@eso.org
Alexander Szalay	USA	szalay@pha.jhu.edu
Nicholas Walton	UK	naw@ast.cam.ac.uk
Oleg Malkov	Russia	malkov@inasan.ru
Ajit Khembhavi	India	akk@iucaa.ernet.in
Roy Williams	USA	roy@cacr.caltech.edu
Giuseppina Fabbiano	USA	pepi@head-cfa.harvard.edu
Yongheng Zhao	China	yzhao@lamost.bao.ac.cn
Isabelle Scholl	France	scholl@isu.isunet.edu
Enrique Solano	Spain	Enrique.Solano@esa.int

Planning Timeline

To be done

DATE	ITEM	STATUS
2005 May	sharpen pencils	EASY
2005 Jun	set up planning page	DONE
2005 Jul	draft revised programme
2005 Jul	start approaching speakers
2006 Aug	run conference, drink beer

etc etc.

Tasks in no particular order :

set up conference web site
advertise conference
set up and liaise with LOC
issue call for papers
select papers
promote science results
schedule SOC telecons

Revised programme

We have 3.0 days as opposed to the requested 4.5 days, so need to cut down the planned programme. A draft revised programme is attached below. This includes a superset of keynote speakers proposed so far. We need to select a final list and some reserves.