IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM131)
Date: Monday, February 2, 2026
Time: 20:00 UTC
Zoom Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62257207376?pwd=h6391EcXq0bPD60OlxjbcouTQ374K1.1
Contents
Agenda
- Roll Call and Agenda
- Review and approval of TM130 Minutes
- Review of Actions for TM131
- IGs' role among TCG and CSP activities (follow-on to TM127.1 action)
- AI Mode for Exec Meetings
- Future Interop meetings
- Northern Spring 2026 (Strasbourg; 8-11 June)
- Northern Fall 2026 (Perth; 1-5 November)
- New IVOA Recommendations: Approval
- Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
- TCG Report
- CSP Report
- IAU General Assembly/Working Group Report
- IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
- Date of next Exec meeting
- AOB
- Review of new actions
Reports from the Projects
NOVA (Argentina)
ArVO (Armenia)
ASVO (Australia)
BRAVO (Brazil)
China-VO
CVO (Canada)
ESA (Europe)
Euro-VO (Europe)
GAVO (Germany)
JVO (Japan)
Kazakhstan VO
NLVO (Netherlands)
OV-France
- The annual French national meeting of VO will be held in Paris from March 9 to 11. We expect a large number of participants. https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/38441/
- The OV-France yearly call for proposals is now closed. We have seen a significant increase in the number of applications, partly associated to the next interop meeting happening in France.
RVO (Russia)
SA^3 (South Africa)
SKAO (Square Kilometre Array Observatory; Australia & South Africa)
SVO (Spain)
USVOA (United States)
The USVOA organized a splinter session at the AAS January meeting in Phoenix AZ. Talks included general information on the IVOA (Pepi Fabbiano, SAO), scientific impact of VO standards (Bruce Berriman,
CalTech), Rubin & VO standards (Gregory Dubois-Felsmann,
CalTech), and ADS/SciX new developments (Alberto Accomazzi, SAO). Robert Nicutta (NOIRlab) chaired a discussion with the audience. A popular request was to link implementation examples to the IVOA standards in the web page.
Pepi, Bruce, Vandana (
CalTech), Robert & Alberto also took part in the AAS data roundtable organized by the IOP (Astrophysical Journals).
Alyssa Goodman (Harvard) led a memorial celebration of Jonathan Fay (WWT developer).
VO-India
VObs.it (Italy)
Report from the TCG
IAU Working Group Report
Report from the CSP