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IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM33)

Weds 23 Sept 2009 @ 15.00-16.30 GMT (click the link to find your time)

Contents

Logistics

Telecon:

Agenda (DRAFT as of 20090910)

Roll Call and Agenda - NW
Minutes of FM 32 and FM 32S
Project Reports - Significant Events Only
Review of Action Items NW
Approval of New IVOA Recommendations Standing Item
Report by committees - FP
TCG status - CA
Autumn 2009 Interop Status Report – PP
Spring 2010 Interop Status Report – DS
Venue/ Date of Autumn 2010 Interop - MO
Date of Next Exec Meeting
AOB
Review of New Action Items

Reports from the Projects

ArVO

ArVO group members at present are: A.M. Mickaelian (Principal Investigator), H.V. Astsatryan (Technical Manager), T.Yu. Magakian and L.K. Erastova (Project Scientists), L.A. Sargsyan, P.K. Sinamyan, and S.A. Ghazaryan (Scientific/Technical Assistants), and G.A. Mikayelyan (Web Master). Two more students from the Yerevan State University (YSU) are involved in the project, too.

Work on setting up the Armenian VO server on ArmCluster at the Institute of Informatics and Automation Problems (IIAP) has been continued, as well as the establishment and utilization of the Virtual Observatories standards in Armenia.

The second version (BPD v2) of the Byurakan Observatory electronic plate database has been created and will be soon open (some 14,000 plates). It will give full access by various parameters: sky area, observing project, telescope, observing mode, date of observation, observer, etc. The digitization works of the Byurakan archive plates are being continued. The digitized Byurakan plates will make up the main part of the Armenian astronomical data centre.

The ISTC project (A-1606) on "Development of Armenian-Georgian Grid Infrastructure and applications in the Fields of High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Quantum Physics" has been continued in collaboration with 6 other Armenian and Georgian institutions, which includes the development of Armenian-Georgian VO based on the plate databases of Byurakan and Abastumani observatories. This will be the first attempt to create a regional VO, as in the future we will need to expand the VO projects regionally to cover larger areas in the world.