IVOA Interoperability meeting

Dec 7-11, 2010: Nara, Japan

IVOA Interoperability meeting

Local Organization

Please find detailed information at the meeting webpage.

Updates

Programme

Meeting Schedule: FINAL 20101202 UPDATED 20101206

Note: Interop will finish by noon on Sat 11 December
Note: New start time of 09.30 on Fri 10 December

Session	Time	Room	Session	Notes
Monday December 6 2010
	09.30-16.30	Asu-nara Room Nikko Nara Hotel	IVOA TCG Meeting	TCG
	17.00–19.00	Asu-nara Room Nikko Nara Hotel	IVOA Exec Meeting	Exec + TCG
Tuesday December 7 2010
	10.00–10.30	1+2	Registration

1	10.30–10.45	1+2	Welcome and Logistics	TBD
	10.45–11.10		State of the IVOA	Paolo Padovani
	11.10–12.00		State of the TCG (PDF, PPT)	Christophe Arviset
	12.00–12.30		Committee on Science Priorities: Report	Mark Allen

	*12.30–13.30*	*Lunch*

2	13.30-14.30	1+2	Charge to Working Groups	Plenary Session Agenda
	14.30–16.00	1+2	DAL-1
		3	Registry-1
		4	CSP	CSP members only

	*16.00–16.30*	*Break*

3	16.30–18.00	1+2	Applications-1
Wednesday December 8 2010
4	09.00–10.30	1+2	Science-Cases: SED

	*10.30–11.00*	*Group Photo & Break*

5	11.00–12.30	1+2	Science-Cases: ObsTAP, Target Search

	*12.30–14.00*	*Lunch*

6	14.00–15.30	1+2	Reg/DAL Joint Session
		3	Theory-1
		4	DCP

	*15.30–16.00*	*Break*

7	16.00–17.30	1+2	Applications-2
Thursday December 9 2010
8	09.00–10.30	3	DM-1

	*10.30–11.00*	*Break*

9	11.00–12.30	3	DM-2
9	11.00–12.30	4	GWS-1

	*12.30–14.00*	*Lunch*
	12.30–14:00	Meeting Room 3 (2F)	IVOA Exec Meeting	Exec only

	18.30–	*Banquet Dinner: Kajika*
Friday December 10 2010
10	09.30–09.45	1+2	VOFrontrow: The Virtual Astronomical Observatory	Bob Hanisch
	09.45–10.00		VOFrontrow: Report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientiﬁc Data	Francoise Genova
	10.00–10.15		VOFrontrow: VAMDC Update and Status	Asif Akram
	10.15–10.30		VOFrontrow: VO-science in the framework of the Consolider-GTC project	Enrique Solano

	*10.30–11.00*	*Break*

11	11.00–12.30	1+2	Registry-2
		4	GWS-2
		3	Theory-2

	*12.30–14.00*	*Lunch*

12	14.00–15.30	3	DAL-2
12	14.00–15.30	4	Semantics

	*15.30–16.00*	*Break*

13	16.00–17.30	3	VOevent
13	16.00–17.30	4	Theory/DAL/Registry Joint Session
Saturday December 11 2010
14	09.00–11.00	1+2	WG/IG session summaries	Plenary Session Agenda
	11.00-11.20		Science Inputs: Assessment	Paolo Padovani
	11.20–11.40		Closing Remarks	Paolo Padovani

Meeting room and logistic information

The meeting will use rooms 1 through 4. Rooms 1 and 2 are located on the ground floor, and rooms 3 and 4 are on the first floor. The capacities are 108, 60, 108 and 60, respectively. Rooms 1 and 2 can be jointly used to accommodate 168 people. Rooms 3 and 4 can be jointly used, too. See the details from here: http://www.shinkokaido.jp/english/index.html
Plenary sessions will be held in the combined Room1+2
Lunches: the venue has a restaurant, there are also alternative options for lunch with in walking distance of the venue.
Note: the Exec and TCG meeting will be held at ASUNARA room in the Hotel Nikko Nara as the main venue is closed 6 Dec 2010.

ASUNARA Convention Room (Hotel Nikko Nara, 2nd Floor, West Exit of JR Nara Station), 8-1 Sanjo-Hommachi, Nara City, Nara 630-8122, Japan, Phone: +81 (0) 742 1525 or +81 (0) 742 35 8831

Hotel Booking Information

Visit at this page https://apollon.nta.co.jp/ivoa2010/

Banquet Information

The banquet will be held on December 9th at a Japanese restauraunt, Kajika ( http://www9.plala.or.jp/nara-kazika/, Japanese only !), with the fee of JPY 3000 (reduced from the former fee of JPY 6000).

Buses to and from the banquet venue are provided; the meeting point is the Lobby floor at the Nikko Nara Hotel, at 1800 hours. The buses are scheduled to leave the Nikko Nara hotel at 1815 hours.

Location Notes

The meeting will take place at the Nara Prefectural New Public Hall (http://www.shinkokaido.jp/english/index.html) which was constructed in 1987 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Nara Prefecture. It is located in the center of Nara National Park, which is famous for its beauty and 1,200 tame deer.

Registration and Participants List

Registration can be made through https://apollon.nta.co.jp/ivoa2010/

and the list of participants can be found at http://jvo.nao.ac.jp/InterOpNara/list_latest.htm

Travel

Travel information can be found at http://jvo.nao.ac.jp/InterOpNara/venue-travel.html#travel

Electricity

100 V / 60 Hz, two pins (same as the US type)

Visas

If you need the entry visa to Japan, please contact Masatoshi Ohishi (masatoshi.ohishi@nao.ac.jp) IMMEDIATELY. The details of the Japanese visa, please visit at http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/index.html .