VOTech Kickoff Meeting

The VOTech project kicked off with a meeting on Nov 18-19, 2004 at the IoA in Cambridge, UK.

Aims

The aims of the meeting are:

• for participants to get to know one another
• to discuss priority work within the Work Packages

Call for Submissions

We invite participants to give short presentations on topics which they feel VOTech project might address. See VOTechKickoffCall for details. Final presentations and papers will be available from VOTechKickoffSubmissions page.

Participants

If you are attending the meeting, please add your details to the VOTechKickoffParticipants page.

Agenda

The agenda will consist of presentations and workshops.

Day 1

all presentations today in the Earth Sciences lecture room (in the Bullard Building, Dept of Earth Sciences, Madingley Road - just past the Hoyle building - see 11 on map)

Now Complete: see VOTechKickoffSubmissions page for links to presentations
or click the name of the talk below for a pdf version of the presentation slides (unfortunately, transitions do not translate very well)

Start	Session/Talk		Presenter(s)
09:30	Welcome		AndyLawrence
09:45	DS2 Session: Technical Management
09:45		Project Management Approach	TonyLinde
09:55		Science Requirements	NicholasWalton
10:05		AVO Project: 'Extra' Science Requirements	PaoloPadovani
10:15		AVO Project: Technical Lessons Learned	MarkusDolensky
10:25	DS3 Session: Infrastucture  Introduction
10:30		How to Adapt existing Archives to VO: The ISO and XMM-Newton cases	Christophe Arviset
10:40		Interoperability Standards	FrancoiseGenova
10:50		Agent architectures: Smarter software for astronomers, slides	AlasdairAllan
11:00		Possible Future Development of CEA	Paul Harrison
11:10		Grid-enabled access to databases: current activities	Fabio Pasian
11:20		Keynote: Shibboleth overview	Alan Robiette
11:40	Break
12:10		Service-to-service Security	Guy Rixon
	DS5 Session: Resource Discovery  Introduction
12:20		Keynote: Ontologies	SebastienDerriere
12:40		Intelligent Access to Foreign Data	Norman Gray
12:50		Publishing Ideas and Arguments	TonyLinde
13:00		celFilter: a sky oriented resource discovery	Patricio Ortiz
13:10	Lunch
14:05	DS4 Session: User Tools  Introduction
14:10		Keynote: Science-driven VOTech Tools	PaoloPadovani
14:30		Starlink table/VOTable handling software	Mark Taylor
14:40		Access to virtual data	Anita Richards & Simon Garrington
14:50		An Agent-based Predictive Engine for Variable Star Observing	Eric Saunders
15:00		VOSpec: A tool for handling Virtual Observatory compliant Spectra	Pedro Osuna
15:10		A Grid-enabled Theoretical Data Archive in the VO framework	Ugo Becciani
15:20		The AstroGrid 'Solar Movie Maker' Application	Elizabeth Auden & Silvia Dalla
15:30	Break
15:55	DS6 Session: Data Mining and Visualisation  Introduction
16:00		Keynote: A Neural approach to clustering and visualization in multiparametric spaces	Giuseppe Longo
16:20		Hypercell - Visualization of Multivariate Data	Ken Brodlie
16:30		A Column-Oriented Data Explorer	Clive Page
16:40		Visualisation and processing of multiband images	Francois Bonnarel & Mireille Louys
16:50		When are Agents good data miners?	Tim Naylor
17:00		AstroMD: a VO enabled tool for Scientific Visualization and Data Analysis	Ugo Becciani
17:10		Tree Codes and their Application to Fast and Efficient Algorithms	Bob Nichol
17:20	Day 2 Introduction		TonyLinde
		Sign up for workshops
17:30	Close

Day 2

Please note that room allocations have been changed after Day 1

Start	Session	Leader	Room
09:30	Workshop: Infrastructure	Guy Rixon	Hoyle comm rm
09:30	Workshop: User Tools	MarkusDolensky	lecture theatre (earth sciences)
11:00	Break
11:30	Workshop: Resource Discovery	SebastienDerriere	Hoyle comm rm
11:30	Workshop: Data Mining and Visualisation	Giuseppe Longo	lecture theatre (earth sciences)
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Results: Infrastructure	Guy Rixon	Hoyle lecture theatre
14:20	Results: User Tools	MarkusDolensky	Hoyle lecture theatre
14:40	Results: Resource Discovery	SebastienDerriere	Hoyle lecture theatre
15:00	Results: Data Mining and Visualisation	Giuseppe Longo	Hoyle lecture theatre
15:20	Closing Remarks	AndyLawrence	Hoyle lecture theatre
15:30	Close

Meeting Arrangements

Meeting Equipment

Wireless networking will be available in the Hoyle lecture theatre and the Hoyle committee rooms. There will be a fixed line available in the Earth sciences meeting room. Digital projectors and OHPs will be provided.

Location

The meeting will be held in two main locations: the Earth Science building (in the Bullard Building, Dept of Earth Sciences, Madingley Road - just past the Hoyle building - see 11 on map) and the Hoyle building - primarily the Sacker Lecture Theatre - a map of the IoA gives the local locations.

Lectures on day one and the morning of day two will be in the Earth Science lecture room. Lectures for the afternoon of day two will be in the Hoyle's Sackler lecture theatre.

Breakout meetings for either day one or two will be held either in the Hoyle committee room.

Travel and Weather

Information as to how to get to the IoA can be found at TravelToIoA

The latest weather forecast for Cambridge from the BBC Weather Office

Accommodation

It would be good if you could arrange your own accomodation if needed for this meeting. The Cambridge tourist office has an extensive accommodation page. Cambridge hotels are also listed - the Cambridge Lodge Hotel is the closest to the IoA - a 10 minute walk. Another recommended hotel is the Arundel House. This is a healthy 20 minute walk from the IOA but convenient for the historic city centre.