May 2004 Interoperability meeting: First announcement

[Francoise Genova]

First Announcement: IVOA Interoperability Workshop, 24-28 May 2004,
Cambridge, MA,USA

The Spring 2004 IVOA Interoperability Workshop will
be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, hosted by the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory/Chandra X-Ray Center. We expect to have work
sessions for all IVOA Working Groups, plus for two new Interest Groups
that were formed by the IVOA Executive in January. 

Working Groups: VOTable, UCDs, Registry, Data Models, Data Access Layer,
VO Query Language, Grid and Web Services 

Interest Groups: Applications, Theory 

In addition, the IVOA Executive has chartered a review of the overall VO
system architecture, to be carried out by Roy Williams (IVOA Technical
Lead) and the chairs of the Working Groups, and they are to make their
report at the May Interop workshop. 

The meetings will be held on the Harvard University campus, primarily in
the Physics Department. Accommodations will be available at the Sheraton
Commander Hotel, which is just west of Harvard Square and a short walk
from the meeting location. Sessions will begin on Monday morning at
10:00am, with coffee and registration available starting at 9:00am. We
will plan to finish by Friday at 3:00pm to allow participants to connect
with evening return flights. Additional information on logistical
matters will be distributed shortly. 

We will be working further with the Working Group and Interest Group
chairs to develop a detailed agenda for the workshop, though to first
order you can expect it to be similar to the May 2003 workshop in the
Other Cambridge, with both plenary and parallel sessions. Additional
information will be posted on this site as it becomes available. 

We look forward to your participation--it is the contributions from all
IVOA projects and personnel that make the VO development stimulating and
successful! 

Francoise Genova, Bob Hanisch, and Nic Walton 

Interop Program Organizing Committee