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<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. The Symposium will take place over three days as part of the IAU General Assembly in, during the period August 14-15 2006. We do not yet know the precise dates. This will be determined during the overall planning  process for the IAU GA.


---++ 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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doc	prague-proposal-final.doc	r1	manage	90.0 K	2005-01-03 - 15:48	AndyLawrence
htm	prague-proposal-final.htm	r1	manage	133.8 K	2005-01-03 - 15:49	AndyLawrence

Topic revision: r9 - 2005-06-30 - AndyLawrence

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