Working Documents for the Scientific Organising Committee

The top-level page for our proposed VO Science IAU Symposium is here. This page collects useful information and documents concerning proposal preparation.

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Proposal Timeline

Here is the proposal timeline, following the instructions on the IAU web page.

DATE	ITEM	STATUS
2004 Sept 01	Letter of Intent	DONE
2004 Sep 15	send draft to CP presidents	DONE
	copied to coord-DP
2004 Oct 15	CP to send support letter to proposer	INCOMPLETE
2004 Nov 15	send draft proposal with CP support letters	INCOMPLETE
	to desired coordinating DP
	requesting a support letter
2004 Dec 15	coord DP to send support letter to proposer
	copied to AGS
2005 Jan 03	final prop to the IAU proposal server
	with draft prog and tentative speakers list
	all support letters from DP and CPs
2005 Feb 01	DP reviewing ranking and comments
2005 Feb 15	AGS makes DP evaluation summary available
	to DPs for comments
2005 Mar 01	AGS sends final DP evaluation report to IAU-EC
2005 Apr 18	final selection by IAU-EC and DPs
2005 May 01	results known

Current Status

Note of progress 30/11/2004 :

• Letter of intent was sent September 01 2004. This was received and acknowledged.

• A draft proposal was prepared in mid-September.

• The draft proposal was circulated to various key people for support. (see below)

• Some letters of support have been received, but not all those expected. Trimble has been alerted to this and I have promised to send full set shortly.

Proposed co-ordinating Division : D12 President Virginia Trimble

Proposing Commission : C5 President Genova, VP Ray Norris letter expected any day ..

Hoped for Supporting commissions / working groups :

C40 Radio Astronomy (Rodriguez) RECEIVED

WG on solar data access Bob Bentley RECEIVED

WG of the Executive on Large Scale Facilities RECEIVED

C47 Cosmology Rachel Webster STILL WAITING

C9 Instrumentation and Techniques NO NEWS YET

C44 Space and High Energy Astrophysics NO NEWS YET maybe will give up ..

WG on Surveys (Quentin Parker) NO NEWS YET but would expect this one

S.O.C. Membership

Andy Lawrence (chair SOC)	UK	al@roe.ac.uk
Masatoshi Ohishi	Japan	xxx
Francoise Genova	France	xxx
Ray Norris	Australia	xxx
Attila Meszaros (chair LOC)	Czech Republic	xxx
Robert Hanisch	USA	xxx
Peter Quinn	Germany	xxx
Alexander Szalay	USA	xxx
Nicholas Walton	UK	xxx
Oleg Malkov	Russia	xxx
Ajit Khembhavi	India	xxx
Roy Williams	USA	xxx
Giuseppina Fabbiano	USA	xxx

Current proposal version

Here is the current draft plus some supporting documents.

• Letter of intent

• Summary of all LOIs received (ps):

• proposal version 1

• C40 support letter

• WG FLSF support letter

• WG on solardata support letter

Links

IAU Home page

Prague 2006 Home Page

Deadlines and Procedures for proposal submission

Guidelines for submiting proposals