VoscienceIAUPrague < IVOA

<H1>The Virtual Observatory in action: new science, new technology, and next generation facilities.</H1>
<H2>IAU XXVI General Assembly, Special Session</H2>
<H3>Prague, August 2006</H3>

We are very pleased to announce that our symposium proposal was accepted as a "Special Session" within the IAU General Assembly. 

This is a temporary web page used primarily for planning purposes for the Scientific Organising Committee. In due course we will launch a proper public web page.Watch this space !

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---++ Purpose
This conference will highlight scientific achievement enabled by the Virtual Observatory initiatives, and review technical progress towards the VO vision.

---++ Location and Date
The location for the conference is Prague, The Czech Republic. Our conference is a "Special Session" during the IAU General Assembly which runs through the period August 14-15 2006. Together with a related session on Astronomical Data Management, the VO special session covers 3.5 days in the period Aug 17-22 :

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Thursday Aug 17 : pm
Friday Aug 18   : all day
Monday Aug 21   : all day
Tuesday Aug 22  : am
Tuesday Aug 22  : pm       - Astronomical Data Management
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---++ Proposal
A copy of the proposal as submitted in Jan 2005 is attached here:
   * [[%ATTACHURL%/prague-proposal-final.doc][Word doc version]]
   * [[%ATTACHURL%/prague-proposal-final.htm][HTML version]]

Until we develop a revised programme plan and publicity material, this remains the best description so far of what the conference will be like.

---++ Scientific Organising Committee

| Andy Lawrence   (chair SOC) | UK | al@roe.ac.uk | 
| Masatoshi Ohishi | Japan | masatoshi.ohishi.nao.ac.jp |
| Francoise Genova | France | genova@cluster.u-strasbg.fr |
| Ray Norris | Australia | Ray.Norris@csiro.au |
| Attila Meszaros | Czech Republic | meszaros.cesnet.cz |
| Robert Hanisch | USA | hanisch@stsci.edu |
| Peter Quinn | Germany | pjq@eso.org |
| Alexander Szalay | USA | szalay@pha.jhu.edu |
| Nicholas Walton | UK | naw@ast.cam.ac.uk |
| Oleg Malkov  | Russia | malkov@inasan.ru |
| Ajit Khembhavi | India | akk@iucaa.ernet.in |
| Roy Williams | USA | roy@cacr.caltech.edu |
| Giuseppina Fabbiano | USA | pepi@head-cfa.harvard.edu |
| Yongheng Zhao | China | yzhao@lamost.bao.ac.cn |
| Isabelle Scholl | France | scholl@isu.isunet.edu |
| Enrique Solano | Spain | Enrique.Solano@esa.int |




---++ Working Documents for S.O.C.

Planning material for the conference is on a page called  VoPraguePlanning 

This top level page is called VoscienceIAUPrague 

Material accumulated during the proposal process is on a page called VoPragueProposalPrep


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