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IVOA History

IVOA History

Interop and Other Key Meetings

Month/Year	Location (Host)
6/2000	Pasadena, CA (Caltech), Virtual Observatories of the Future
8/2000	Garching, Germany (ESO), Mining the Sky
6/2001	Aspen, CO (ACP)
1/2002	Strasbourg, France (CDS)
6/2002	Garching, Germany (ESO), Toward an International VO
	(IVOA formed at this meeting)
10/2002	Baltimore, MD (JHU)
5/2003	Cambridge, UK (IoA)
10/2003	Strasbourg, France (CDS)
11/2003	Beijing, China, small projects meeting (ChinaVO)
5/2004	Cambridge, MA (CfA)
9/2004	Pune, India (IUCAA)
5/2005	Kyoto, Japan (NAOJ)
10/2005	Madrid, Spain (ESAC)
5/2006	Victoria, BC (CVO)
9/2006	Moscow, Russia (RVO)
5/2007	Beijing, China (ChinaVO)
9/2007	Cambridge, UK (IoA)
5/2008	Trieste, Italy (INAF-OATs, VObs.it)
10/2008	Baltimore, MD (STScI, JHU)
5/2009	Strasbourg, France (CDS)
11/2009	Garching, Germany (ESO)
5/2010	Victoria, BC (CVO)
12/2010	Nara, Japan (NAOJ)
5/2011	Napoli, Italy (University Federico II of Napoli, VObs.it)
10/2011	Pune, India (IUCAA)
5/2012	Urbana, USA (NCSA)
10/2012	São Paulo (BRAVO)
05/2013	Heidelberg, Germany (GAVO, University of Heidelberg)
09/2013	Waikoloa, Hawaii (VAO)
05/2014	Madrid, Spain (ESA-VO, SVO)
10/2014	Banff, Canada (CVO)
5/2015	Sesto, Italy (VObs.it)
10/2015	Sydney, Australia (Aus-VO)
5/2016	Cape Town, S Africa (SA^3)
10/2016	Trieste, Italy (INAF-OATs, VObs.it)
05/2017	Shanghai, China (China-VO)
10/2017	Santiago, Chile (ChiVO)
05/2018	Victoria, BC (CADC)
11/2018	College Park, MD
5/2019	Paris, France
10/2019	Groningen, Netherlands
05/2020	Sydney, Australia (changed to VM due to COVID-19 outbreak)
11/2020	Granada, Spain (VM)
05/2021	Online Virtual Meeting
11/2021	Online Virtual Meeting
04/2022	Online Virtual Meeting
10/2022	Online Virtual Meeting
05/2023	Bologna, Italy (INAF)
11/2023	Tucson, AZ (USA)
05/2024	Sydney, NSW (AUS)
11/2024	La Valletta, Malta

Executive Committee Meetings

Month/Year	Meeting	Location
6/2002	FM1	Garching
9/2002	TM2	telecon
11/2002	TM3	telecon
1/2003	FM4	Seattle (AAS)
3/2003	TM5	telecon
6/2003	TM6	telecon
8/2003	FM7	Sydney (IAU GA)
9/2003	TM8	telecon
1/2004	FM9	Garching (AVO SWG)
4/2004	TM10	telecon
6/2004	FM11	Glasgow (SPIE)
11/2004	TM12	telecon
1/2005	FM13	San Diego (AAS, SDSC)
4/2005	TM14	cancelled
5/2005	FM15	Kyoto
7/2005	TM16	telecon
10/2005	FM17	Madrid
1/2006	TM18	telecon
5/2006	FM19	Victoria
8/2006	FM20	Prague (IAU GA)
12/2006	TM21	telecon
3/2007	TM22	telecon
5/2007	FM23	Beijing
5/2007	FM23S	Beijing
7/2007	TM24	telecon
9/2007	FM25	Cambridge
1/2008	TM26	telecon
4/2008	TM27	telecon
5/2008	FM28	Trieste
8/2008	TM29	telecon
10/2008	FM30	Baltimore
10/2008	FM30S	Baltimore
2/2009	TM31	telecon
5/2009	FM32	Strasbourg
5/2009	FM32S	Strasbourg
9/2009	TM33	telecon
11/2009	FM34	Garching
11/2009	FM34S	Garching
03/2010	TM35	telecon
05/2010	FM36	Victoria
05/2010	FM36S	Victoria
09/2010	TM37	telecon
12/2010	FM38	Nara
12/2010	FM38S	Nara
03/2011	TM39	telecon
05/2011	FM40	Napoli
08/2011	TM41	telecon
10/2011	FM42	Pune
10/2011	FM42S	Pune
02/2012	TM43	telecon
05/2012	FM44	Urbana
05/2012	FM44S	Urbana
07/2012	TM45	telecon
10/2012	FM46	São Paulo
12/2012	TM47	telecon
02/2013	TM48	telecon
05/2013	FM49	Heidelberg
05/2013	FM49S	Heidelberg
09/2013	FM50	Waikoloa
11/2013	TM51	telecon
02/2014	TM52	telecon
05/2014	FM53	Madrid
05/2014	FM53S	Madrid
09/2014	TM54	telecon
10/2014	FM55	Banff
12/2014	TM56	telecon
03/2015	TM57	telecon
06/2015	FM58	Sesto
06/2015	FM58S	Sesto
09/2015	TM59	telecon
10/2015	FM60	Sydney
12/2016	TM61	telecon
02/2016	TM62	telecon
05/2016	FM63	Cape Town
05/2016	FM63S	Cape Town
07/2016	TM64	telecon
09/2016	TM65	telecon
10/2016	FM66	Trieste
12/2016	TM67	telecon
03/2017	TM68	telecon
05/2017	FM69	Shanghai
05/2017	FM69S	Shanghai
06/2017	TM70	telecon
7/2017	TM71	telecon
9/2017	TM72	telecon
10/2017	FM73	Santiago
12/2017	TM74	telecon
03/2018	TM75	telecon
05/2018	TM76	telecon
05/2018	FM77	Victoria BC
05/2018	FM77S	Victoria BC
07/2018	TM78	telecon
09/2018	TM79	telecon
11/2018	FM80	College Park, MD
12/2018	TM81	telecon
3/2019	TM82	telecon
4/2019	TM83	telecon
5/2019	FM84,84s	Paris, France
7/2019	TM85	telecon
9/2019	TM86	telecon
10/2019	FM87	Groningen, Netherlands
11/2019	TM88	telecon
02/2020	TM89	telecon
03/2020	TM90	telecon
04/2020	TM91	telecon
06/2020	TM92	telecon
09/2020	TM93	telecon
10/2020	TM94	telecon
12/2020	TM95	telecon
03/2021	TM96	telecon
05/2021	TM97	telecon
05/2021	TM98	telecon
07/2021	TM99	telecon
09/2021	TM100	telecon
10/2021	TM101	telecon
12/2021	TM102	telecon
01/2022	TM103	telecon
03/2022	TM104	telecon
04/2022	TM105	telecon
06/2022	TM106	telecon
08/2022	TM107	telecon
10/2022	TM108	telecon
12/2022	TM109	telecon
01/2023	TM110	telecon
03/2023	TM111	telecon
05/2023	TM112	Bologna, Italy
05/2023	TM113	Bologna, Italy
07/2023	TM114	telecon
09/2023	TM115	telecon
11/2023	TM116	Tucson, AZ
12/2023	TM117	telecon
2/2024	TM118	telecon
4/2024	TM119	telecon
5/2024	FM120, FM121	Sydney, NSW

Executive Committee Leadership

Dates	Chair	Deputy Chair	Secretary
6/2002-7/2003	Bob Hanisch	Peter Quinn	Nic Walton
7/2003-6/2004	Peter Quinn	Andy Lawrence	“
6/2004-5/2005	Andy Lawrence	Masatoshi Ohishi	“
5/2005-8/2006	Masatoshi Ohishi	Francoise Genova	“
8/2006-8/2007	Francoise Genova	Dave De Young	“
8/2007-10/2008	Dave De Young	Fabio Pasian	“
10/2008-5/2010	Fabio Pasian	Paolo Padovani	"
11/2009-9/2013			Mark Allen
5/2010-10/2011	Paolo Padovani	Ajit Kembhavi	"
10/2011-5/2013	Ajit Kembhavi	David Schade	"
5/2013 -10/2014	David Schade	Christophe Arviset	"
9/2013-12/2018			Janet Evans
10/2014-5/2016	Christophe Arviset	Enrique Solano	"
5/2016-10/2016	Christophe Arviset	Pepi Fabbiano	"
10/2016-5/2018	Pepi Fabbiano	Mark Allen	"
5/2018-10/2019	Mark Allen	Chenzhou Cui	"
1/2019-8/2022			Francesca Civano
10/2019-05/2021	Chenzhou Cui	Bruce Berriman	"
05/2021-12/2022	Bruce Berriman	JJ Kavelaars	"
05/2022-			Marcy Harbut
12/2022-11/2023	Christophe Arviset	Simon O'Toole	"
11/2023-	Simon O'Toole	JJ Kavelaars	"

[term of chair increased to 18 months beginning with D. De Young]

[N.Walton’s term extended to 5/2009, retroactively, effective 11/2008]

Technical Working Group

Dates	Chair	Deputy Chair
6/2002-7/2006	Roy Williams
1/2004-	TWG System Architecture Group formalized
7/2005	TWG becomes TCG

Technical Coordination Group

Dates	Chair	Deputy Chair
7/2006-5/2008	Roy Williams	(continued from TWG)
5/2007-5/2008		Christophe Arviset
5/2018-5/2021	Patrick Dowler	Janet Evans
5/2021-5/2024	Janet Evans	Marco Molinaro
5/2012-5/2015	Severin Gaudet	Matthew Graham
5/2015-5/2018	Matthew Graham	Patrick Dowler
5/2008-5/2011	Christophe Arviset	Severin Gaudet
5/2011-5/2012	Christophe Arviset (1 year extension)	Severin Gaudet (1 year extension)
5/2024-	Marco Molinaro	Tom Donaldson

Interop Program Organizing Committee

3/2003-5/2007	Nic Walton, Francoise Genova, Bob Hanisch
5/2007-5/2012	Severin Gaudet, Marie-Lise Dubernet, Nic Walton
8/2008	Marie-Lise Dubernet resigned
9/2010	TCG vice-Chair is automatically a member of the POC
5/2012-	Matthew Graham, Nic Walton
	TCG Chair/Vice Chair

Standards and Process Subcommittee

9/2007-9/2010	Francoise Genova (chair), Bob Hanisch, Christophe Arviset
9/2010-7/2017	Françoise Genova
7/2017-7/2021	Christophe Arviset
7/2021-	Patrick Dowler

Committee on Scientific Priorities

Dates	Chair	Deputy Chair
5/2010-9/2013	Dave de Young
9/2013-5/2017	Mark Allen
5/2017-5/2021	Bruno Merín
5/2021-12/2021	Ada Nebot
12/2021-5/2024	Ada Nebot	Francesca Civano
5/2024-	Francesca Civano	Vandana Desai

Document Coordinator

8/2003-12/2005	Marco Leoni
1/2006 -7/2010	Bruno Rino
7/2010 - 9/2014	Sarah Emery Bunn
9/2014 -	Giulia lafrate (giulia.iafrate@inaf.it)

Working Groups

Working Group	Dates	Chair	Deputy

Applications	1/2007-7/2008	Mark Allen
	3/2007-		Mark Taylor
	7/2008-7/2011	Tom McGlynn	Mark Taylor
	7/2011-5/2014	Mark Taylor
	7/2011-7/2012		Enrique Solano
	7/2012-5/2014		Pierre Fernique
	5/2014-5/2017	Pierre Fernique	Tom Donaldson
	5/2017-5/2018	Pierre Fernique (1 yr. ext.)	Tom Donaldson (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2018-5/2021	Tom Donaldson	Raffaele D'Abrusco
	5/2021-5/2022	Tom Donaldson (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2021-5/2024		Adrian Damian
	5/2022-5/2025	Pierre Le Sidaner	Adrian Damian (1yr. ext.)

Data Access Layer	6/2003-5/2007	Doug Tody
	3/2007-		Markus Dolensky
	5/2007-5/2010	Keith Noddle	Markus Dolensky
	5/2008- 5/2010	Keith Noodle	Jesus Salgado
	5/2010- 5/2013	Pat Dowler	Mike Fitzpatrick
	5/2013- 5/2014	Pat Dowler (1 year extension)
	5/2013-5/2014		Francois Bonnarel
	5/2014-5/2017	Francois Bonnarel	Marco Molinaro
	5/2017-5/2018	Francois Bonnarel (1 yr. ext.)	Marco Molinaro (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2018-5/2021	Marco Molinaro	James Dempsey
	5/2021-5/2024	James Dempsey	Grégory Mantelet
	5/2024-5/2027	Grégory Mantelet	Joshua Fraustro

Data Models	6/2003-	Jonathan McDowell
	3/2007-		Mireille Louys, Anita Richards
	5/2007-5/2010	Mireille Louys	Anita Richards
	5/2010-5/2011	Mireille Louys (1 yr. ext.)	Jesus Salgado
	5/2011-5/2014	Jesus Salgado	Omar Laurino
	5/2014-5/2015	Jesus Salgado(1 yr. ext.)	Omar Laurino (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2015-5/2018	Mark Cresitello-Dittmar	Laurent Michel
	5/2018-5/2019	Mark Cresitello-Dittmar (1 yr. ext.)	Laurent Michel (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2019-5/2022	Laurent Michel	Jesus Salgado
	5/2022-5/2023	Laurent Michel (1 yr. ext.)	Jesus Selgado (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2023-5/2026	Mark Cresitello-Dittmar	Mathieu Servillat

Distributed Services & Protocols (from 11/2024, before GWS)
Grid & Web Services	8/2003-5/2007	Guy Rixon
	12/2006 - 5/2007		Matthew Graham
	5/2007-5/2011	Matthew Graham
	7/2007- 5/2011		Paul Harrison
	5/2011-5/2013	Andreas Wicenec	Andre Schaaff
	5/2013-5/2014	Andre Schaaff	Andreas Wicenec
	5/2014-5/2015	Andre Schaaff (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2014-5/2015		Brian Major
	5/2015-5/2018	Brian Major	Guiliano Taffoni
	5/2018-5/2019	Brian Major (1 yr. ext.)	Guiliano Taffoni (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2019-5/2022	Guiliano Taffoni	Christine Banek
	5/2022-5/2023	Guiliano Taffoni (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2022-5/2025		Dave Morris
Distributed Services & Protocols	5/2023-5/2026	Jesus Salgado	Sara Bertocco

Registry	6/2003-9/2006	Tony Linde
	9/2006-9/2009	Ray Plante
	12/2006 -11/2009		Aurelien Stebe
	11/2009-11/2010	Ray Plante	Gretchen Greene
	01/2011-5/2014	Gretchen Greene	Pierre Le Sidaner
	05/2014-5/2015		Pierre Le Sidaner (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2014-5/2017	Markus Demleitner
	5/2015-5/2018		Theresa Dower
	5/2017-5/2018	Markus Demleitner (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2018-5/2021	Theresa Dower	Pierre Lesidaner
	5/2021-5/2022	Theresa Dower (1 yr. ext.)	Pierre Lesidaner (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2022-5/2025	Renaud Savalle	Tess Jaffe

Semantics	10/2005-1/2008	Andrea Preite-Martinez
	12/2006- 06/2008		Sebastien Derriere
	06/2008-06/2011	Sebastien Derriere	Norman Gray
	06/2011-06/2012	Sebastien Derriere (1 yr. ext.)	Norman Gray (1 yr. ext.)
	06/2012-06/2015	Norman Gray	Mireille Louys
	6/2015-5/2018	Mireille Louys	Alberto Accomazzi
	5/2018-5/2019	Mireille Louys (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2018-5/2019		Markus Demleitner
	5/2019-5/2022	Markus Demleitner	Carlo Maria Zwölf
	5/2022-5/2023	Markus Demleitner (1 yr. ext.)	Carlo Maria Zwölf (1 yr. ext.)
	5/2023-5/2026	Baptiste Cecconi	Sebastien Derriere


_Standards & Processes_	6/2003-5/2005	Bob Hanisch
S&P WG to "idle state"	1/2004
[S&P WG deactivated]	5/2005

_Uniform Content Descriptors_	6/2003-1/2005	Roy Williams	Francois Ochsenbein
	1/2005-10/2005	Andrea Preite-Martinez
[UCD WG renamed Semantics]	10/2005

VO Event	1/2005-1/2008	Roy Williams
	12-2006-5/2008		Rob Seaman
	5/2008-5/2011	Rob Seaman	Alasdair Allan (resigned 9/2010)
	10/2010-10/2011		Roy Williams
	10/2011-	Matthew Graham	John Swinbank
VO Event WG converted to Time Domain Interest Group	10/2012

_VO Query Language_	1/2003-7/2005	Masatoshi Ohishi
	7/2005-8/2006	Maria Nieto-Santisteban (co-chair)	Yuji Shirasaki (co-chair)
	8/2006-8/2009	Pedro Osuna	Yuji Shirasaki
*VO Query Language WG merged into Data Access Layer WG	5/2010

_VO Table_	3/2003-5/2009	Francois Ochsenbein
WG in maintenance mode	12/2009

Interest Groups

Interest Group	Dates	Chair	Deputy

Applications	1/2004-7/2005	Tom McGlynn
	7/2005-1/2007	Mark Allen
[Apps IG to WG]	1/2007

Astro-RG	8/2003-??	Reagan Moore	Nic Walton
	??-7/2007	Nic Walton
	7/2007-7/2010	Masatoshi Ohishi
	11/2009	IG dissolved

Data Curation & Preservation	6/2004-5/2007	Reagan Moore	Francoise Genova
	5/2007-5/2010	Bob Hanisch
	5/2010-	Alberto Accomazzi
	2/2013-5/2014		Francoise Genova
	5/2014-5/2017	Francoise Genova	N/A
	5/2017-5/2018	Francoise Genova (1 yr ext.)
	5/2018-5/2021	Andre Schaff	Tim Jenness
	5/2021-5/2022	Andre Schaff (1 yr ext.)	Tim Jenness (1 yr ext.)
	5/2022-5/2025	Gilles Landais	Gus Muench

Knowledge Discovery in Databases
	9/2010-10/2012	Giuseppe Longo
	10/2012-12/2015	George Djorgovski
	12/2015-12/2018	Kai Polsterer
	12/2018-12/2019	Kai Polsterer (1 yr ext)
	5/2018-5/2021		Matthew Graham
	5/2021-5/2024	Raffaele D’Abrusco
	5/2022-5/2024		Yihan Tao
	5/2024-5/2027	Yihan Tao
	11/2024-11/2027		André Schaaff

Theory	1/2004-	Gerard Lemson
	12/2006-5/2008		Herve Wozniak
	5/2008-5/2011	Herve Wozniak	Claudio Gheller
	5/2011-5/2012	Herve Wozniak (1 yr ext.)
	5/2011-5/2012		Frank Le Petit
	5/2012-5/2015	Franck Le Petit	Rick Wagner
	5/2015-5/2016	Franck Le Petit (1 yr ext.)	Carlos Rodrigo
	5/2016-5/2020	Carlos Rodrigo (1 yr ext.)
	5/2016-5/2020		Gerard Lemson
	5/2020-9/2022	Gerard Lemson
	12/2020-9/2022		Simon O'Toole
	9/2022 - 5/2024	Simon O'Toole
	5/2023-5/2024		Giuliano Taffoni
	5/2024-	Set to "RESTING"

Education	12/2012-12/2015	Massimo Ramella	Sudhanshu Barway
	12/2015-12/2016	Massimo Ramella (1 yr ext.)	Sudhanshu Barway (1 yr ext.)
	5/2017-5/2020	Chenzhou Cui	Hendrik Heinl
	5/2020-5/2021	Chenzhou Cui (1 yr ext.)	Hendrik Heinl (1 yr ext.)
	5/2021-5/2024	Hendrik Heinl	Giulia Lafrate
	5/2022-5/2024		Shanshan Li
	5/2024-5/2027	Shanshan Li
	11/2024-11/2027		Jeremy McCormick

High Energy	11/2024-11/2027	Bruno Khelifi	Janet Evans

Time Domain	10/2012-5/2013	Matthew Graham	John Swinbank
	5/2013-5/2016	John Swinbank	Mike Fitzpatrick
	5/2016-5/2017	John Swinbank (1 yr ext.)
	5/2016-5/2020		Dave Morris (1 yr ext.)
	5/2017-5/2020	Ada Nebot
	5/2020-5/2021	Ada Nebot (1 yr ext. )
	12/2020-12/2023		Mark Cresitello-Dittmar
	5/2021-5/2024	Brent Miszalski
	5/2023-11/2024	Rafael Martinez Galarza	Pierre Fernique
	11/2024-5/2026		Pierre Fernique

Operations	5/2015 - 5/2018	Tom McGlynn	Mark Taylor
	5/2018-5/2019	Tom McGlynn (1 yr ext.)	Mark Taylor (1 yr ext.)
	5/2019-5/2022	Mark Taylor	Steve Groom
	5/2022-5/2023	Mark Taylor (1 yr ext.)	Steve Groom (1 yr ext.)
	5/2023-5/2026	Steve Groom	Tamara Civera

Solar System	5/2017-5/2020	Baptiste Cecconi
	5/2018-5/2021		Steve Joy
	5/2020-5/2021	Baptiste Cecconi (1 yr ext.)
	5/2021-5/2024	Anne Raugh	Baptiste Cecconi
	5/2023-5/2026		Markus Demleitner
	5/2024-5/2025	Anne Raugh (1 yr. et.)

Radio Astronomy	5/2020-5/2023	Mark Lacy (1 yr ext.)	François Bonnarel (1 yr ext.)
	5/2023-5/2024	François Bonnarel	Mark Kettenis
	5/2023-5/2024	Mark Kettenis	Ricardo Rizzo

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