IVOA Interoperability meeting

26-31 October, 2008: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Meeting Web site

Detailed information is available at the meeting webpage.

Webcast

The plenary and "spotlight" sessions of the meeting will be webcast: Monday morning, Tuesday afternoon, and Friday afternoon. The live feed will be available at

http://www.stsci.edu/institute/itsd/information/streaming

and the archive site for the webcasts will be

http://www.stsci.edu/institute/itsd/information/streaming/archive/IVOAInteroperabilityMeeting

Programme

Update 20081009: FINAL Programme

Date	Time	Place	Activity (inc. pdf)	Comments
Sun 26 Oct 2008
	16.00-18.00	ST-CafCon	IVOA Exec Meeting	Exec + WG/IG Chairs
Mon 27 Oct 2008
	08.30-09.00	STScI Lobby	Registration
	09.00-09.05	ST-Aud	Welcome and Logistics	Bob Hanisch
	09.05-09.30	ST-Aud	State of the IVOA	Dave De Young
	09.30-09.50	ST-Aud	State of the TCG	Christophe Arviset
	09.50-10.30	ST-Aud	VO Frontrow 1	Updates from the VO projects
	09.50-10.10		Spotlight NVO	Bob Hanisch
	10.10-10.30		Spotlight Euro-VO	Francoise Genova
	10.30-11.00		Coffee
	11.00-12.30	ST-Aud	Charge to the working groups	Plenary agenda
	12.30-13.30		Lunch
	13.30-15.00		WG parallel sessions 1
	13.30-15.00	ST-Aud	Apps 1: SAMP	Apps agenda
		B462	Theory 1: SimDB	Theory agenda
		B475	Sem 1: Vocab	Semantics agenda
	15.00-15.30		Coffee
	15.30-17.00		WG parallel sessions 2
		ST-Aud	GWS 1: UWS, VOSpace, VOSI	GWS agenda
		B462	DM 1:	DM agenda
Tue 28 Oct 2008
	08.30-10.00		WG parallel sessions 3
		ST-Aud	GWS 2: REST, VOSpace v2.0	GWS agenda
		B462	Reg 1:	Registry agenda
		B475	StdProc	SCSP meeting summary
	10.00-10.30		Coffee
	10.30-12.00		WG parallel sessions 4
		ST-Aud	DAL 1: SIA/SSA/Footprints	DAL agenda
		B462	VOEvent 1: VOEvent v2.0	VOEvent agenda
	12.00-12.15		Group photo
	12.15-13.30		Lunch
	13.30-15.00	ST-Aud	VO Frontrow 2	Updates from the VO projects
	13.30-13.45		Spotlight CVO	Severin Gaudet
	13.45-14.00		Spotlight VOTC:UK	Andy Lawrence
	14.00-14.15		Spotlight JVO	Masatoshi Ohishi
	14.15-14.30		Spotlight ESA-VO	Christophe Arviset
	14.30-14.45		Spotlight F-VO	Francoise Genova
	14.45-15.00	ST-Aud	Special Item: ITU/Leap Second	Masatoshi Ohishi
	15.00-15.30		Coffee
	15.30-17.00		WG parallel sessions 5
		ST-Aud	DAL 2: TAP	DAL agenda
		B462	Reg 2:	Registry agenda
	19.00-23.00		Conference Dinner	Maryland Science Centre
Wed 29 Oct 2008
	08.30-10.00		WG parallel sessions 6
		ST-Aud	Apps 2: Demos	Apps agenda
		B462	GWS 3: Web Services	GWS agenda
	10.00-10.30		Coffee
	10.30-12.00		WG parallel sessions 7
		ST-Aud	DM 2:	DM agenda
		B462	GWS 4: Authorisation	GWS agenda
	12.00-13.30		Lunch
		B475	IVOA Exec Lunch Meeting	Exec Only
	13.30-17.00		Free Afternoon
Thu 30 Oct 2008
	08.30-10.00		WG parallel sessions 8
		ST-Aud	Apps/DM/Reg	Joint Session - see Apps agenda
		B462	Sem 2: UCDs	Semantics agenda
	10.00-10.30		Coffee
	10.30-12.00		WG parallel sessions 9
		ST-Aud	Sem/VOEvent	Joint Session - see Sem agenda
		B462	VOTable	VOTable agenda
	12.00-13.30		Lunch
	13.30-15.00		WG parallel sessions 10
		ST-Aud	GWS/Reg/DAL	Joint Session - see GWS agenda
	15.00-15.30		Coffee
	15.30-17.00		WG parallel sessions 11
		ST-Aud	VOEvent 2: Architecture	VOEvent agenda
		B462	Theory 2: SimDAP	Theory agenda
	17.15-18:15		Evening drinks and music	details to follow
Fri 31 Oct 2008
	08.30-10.00		WG parallel sessions 12
		ST-Aud	Apps 3: Demos	Apps agenda
		B462	DCP	DCP agenda
	10.00-10.30		Coffee
	10.30-12.00		WG parallel sessions 13
		ST-Aud	VOQL	VOQL agenda
		B462	Theory 3: micro sims	Theory agenda
	12.00-13.30		Lunch
	13.30-15.35	ST-Aud	WG/IG session summaries	Plenary agenda
	15.35-15.45	ST-Aud	Closing Remarks	Dave De Young
	15.45		CLOSE

Meeting Rooms

• ST-Aud: STScI Bahcall Auditorium, seats ~140 people. Plenary sessions and joint WG sessions.
• B462: Bloomberg (Physics Dept.) Rm. 462, 40 people.
• B475: Bloomberg Rm. 475, 30 people.
• B447: Bloomberg Rm. 447, 20 people.
• B337: Bloomberg Rm. 337, 20 people - an "extra", for ad hoc meetings
• ST-CafCon: STScI Cafeteria Conference room

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Programme Organising Committee

Comments on the meeting agenda to the programme organising committee: Nicholas Walton (Chair), Severin Gaudet, Bob Hanisch

Location Notes

The meeting will be held at the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Physics Department of The Johns Hopkins University. These buildings are located on either side of San Martin Drive on the west side of the JHU campus. The conference hotel is The Inn at the Colonnade, which is a five minute walk from STScI and the Physics Department. Reservations must be made through this web site.

The JHU Campus Map shows the location of STScI (#57) and the Physics Department (Bloomberg Building, #56). The Inn at the Colonnade is located on University Parkway across from the North Gate. (Note that north is to the right on the campus map!)

There is also a Google maps satellite view image attached below showing a couple of options for walking from the hotel to STScI and the Physics Department.

Information on Baltimore is available on the Baltimore Wikipedia page

Organization

Participants and Photos

The list of registered participants is available here.

• IVOA-group.jpg:
  

You can also get a high-resolution version of the picture.

Some informal pictures from the banquet, reception, and venue have kindly been made available by Zolt Levay, Jonathan McDowell, and Olga Pevunova:

http://opostaff.stsci.edu/~levay/photo/ivoa-banquet/

http://www.planet4589.org/jcm/trips/08/11/ivoa.html

http://olga.smugmug.com/gallery/6467215_4pyt4#410255675_wKpnF

Travel

Three airports serve the Baltimore-Washington area. Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) is the closest, but it has rather limited direct flights to destinations in Europe. Washington National (DCA) has no international flights but might be convenient if you are planning to visit Washington, DC before the meeting. Washington Dulles (IAD) is where most direct international flights arrive. It is in Virginia, about 30 km west of Washington, DC. See [[http://www.stsci.edu/institute/conference/ivoa2008/directions][this link] for driving directions.

From BWI the best option for getting to STScI, JHU, and the Colonnade hotel is to take a taxi. The cost is approximately $40. There is also a light rail service from the airport to downtown Baltimore, but it does not come within walking distance of the campus. One could take the light rail to a major downtown stop and then take a taxi in order to save a little money. This site has further information about the light rail service.

From DCA it would be a very expensive taxi ride to Baltimore. A better option would be to take the Washington Metro from DCA to Washington Union Station, and the train from Washington to Baltimore Penn Station, and from there get a taxi to the hotel. Here are the relevant web sites: Washington Metro, Amtrak train.

From IAD it is again an expensive taxi ride, well over $100. And, at rush hour it can take some time, the distance being about 100 km and the route including the Washington, DC Beltway. The public transportation option is to take a shuttle bus to the West Falls Church station on the Washington Metro, take the Metro to Union Station, and the train to Baltimore. There are also various limo services. If there is interest we might be able to arrange for some sort of shared transportation at a more modest rate.

The Maryland Shuttle operates shuttle vans between all airports and Baltimore. If there are enough people to occupy a full van, the price is very reasonable. See http://www.marylandshuttle.com/ for contact information and on-line reservations. Here is a twiki page where you can list your arrival times and see if you can share transportation: AirportArrivals.

Many people are likely to go to Quebec from Baltimore for the ADASS conference the following week. There are no direct flights from BWI, DCA, or IAD to Quebec (YQB). The nearest airport with non-stop service to Quebec is Newark, NJ (EWR). International travelers might find it convenient to use Newark as a hub. The Amtrak train has a stop at the Newark airport, and you could take the train from there to Baltimore. The train takes about 2h15m and runs about once every hour or 90 minutes depending on the time of day, with one-way fares about $100. Station codes are EWR (Newark airport) and BAL (Baltimore Penn Station). Continental Airlines has four daily non-stops from Newark to Quebec.

Information about visas for entering the USA is available at http://www.unitedstatesvisas.gov/visiting.html. Residents of most European countries, plus Australia and Japan, may enter the US under the Visa Waiver Program if they have an electronically readable passport. However, please read the rules on the visa website for the official word on this. Please contact Roz Baxter (rbaxter at stsci.edu) if you require an official invitation letter to support your visa application.