IVOA Member Organizations

A representative from each member organization participates in quarterly Executive Committee meetings, usually held virtually or hybrid during twice-annual Interop conferences that are held in the northern fall and northern spring.

Approved minutes and actions are posted on the Executive Committee Reports & Minutes page.

Acronym VO Project/Country Executive Committee
Representative
NOVA Argentina Virtual Observatory VACANT
ArVO Armenian Virtual Observatory Areg Mickaelian
AstroGrid Virtual Observatory United Kingdom Andy Lawrence
ASVO Australian All-Sky Virtual Observatory Simon O'Toole
BRAVO Brazilian Virtual Observatory Rafael Santos
China-VO Chinese Virtual Observatory Chenzhou Cui
ChiVO Chile Virtual Observatory Mauricio Solar
CVO Canadian Virtual Observatory JJ Kavelaars
ESA ESA Christophe Arviset
EURO-VO European Virtual Observatory Mark Allen (Vice Chair)
GAVO German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory Joachim Wambsganss
NLVO Netherlands Virtual Observatory Yan Grange
JVO Japanese Virtual Observatory Yuji Shirasaki
KazVO Kazakhstan Virtual Observatory Chingis Omarov
OV-France Observatoire Virtuel France Ada Nebot
RVO Russian Virtual Observatory Oleg Malkov
SA3 South Africa Astroinformatics Alliance Encarni Romero Colmenero
SKAO Square Kilometre Array Observatory Antonio Chrysostomou
SVO Spanish Virtual Observatory Enrique Solano
UkrVO Ukrainian Virtual Observatory Irina Vavilova
USVOA US Virtual Observatory Alliance Pepi Fabbiano
VO-India Virtual Observatory India Sudanshu Barway
VObs.it Italian Virtual Observatory Marco Molinaro

IVOA Interoperability

Most of the work of the IVOA is done within working or interest groups (WG/IG). Standards are produced under the auspices of the WGs, whereas the IGs typically cover specific topics and could be thought of as advisory committees. All WGs and IGs are open to participation by any interested member of the astronomical community.

Area Page Mailing list Chair Vice Chair
         
Working Groups:        
         
Applications IvoaApplications apps@ivoa.net Adrian Damian Brigitta Sipőcz
Data Access Layer IvoaDAL dal@ivoa.net Grégory Mantelet Joshua Fraustro
Data Model IvoaDataModel dm@ivoa.net Mark Cresitello-Dittmar Mathieu Servillat
Grid & Web Services IvoaGridAndWebServices grid@ivoa.net Jesus Salgado Sara Bertocco
Registry IvoaResReg registry@ivoa.net Renaud Savalle Tess Jaffe
Semantics IvoaSemantics semantics@ivoa.net Baptiste Cecconi Sebastien Derriere
 
 
Interest Groups:
 
Data Curation&Preservation IvoaDCP datacp@ivoa.net Gilles Landais Gus Muench
Education IvoaEducation edu@ivoa.net Shanshan Li OPEN
Knowledge Discovery in Databases IvoaKDD %ISNEW% kdd@ivoa.net Yihan Tao OPEN
Theory IvoaTheory theory@ivoa.net RESTING
Time Domain IvoaVOEvent voevent@ivoa.net OPEN Pierre Fernique
Operations IvoaOps ops@ivoa.net Steve Groom Tamara Civera
Solar System IvoaSS ssig@ivoa.net Stéphane Erard Markus Demleitner
Radio IvoaRadio radioig@ivoa.net Mark Kettenis Ricardo Rizzo
High Energy IvoaHE heig@ivoa.net Bruno Khelifi Janet Evans
 
 
Other Groups / Committees:
 
Technical Coordination Group IvoaTCG tcg@ivoa.net Marco Molinaro Tom Donaldson
Standing Committee on Science Priorities IvoaSciencePriorities csp@ivoa.net Francesca Civano Vandana Desai
Standing Committee on Standards & Processes IvoaStdsDocsProc stdproc@ivoa.net Patrick Dowler  
IAU-IVOA Liaison Committee IvoaIauLiaison   Bruce Berriman  
 
See the Policy on IVOA Working Group/Interest Group Chairs and Vice Chairs for an explanation of the role of Chairs and Vice-chairs.

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To contact the Chairs of WGs and IGs, use the following exploders:
* wgchairs@ivoa.net (for WGs Chairs)
* igchairs@ivoa.net (for IGs Chairs)
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