IVOA Theory

Charter
Theory Group Meetings
Members
Project Pages
National contacts
Links
Papers
Mailing-list
Use cases

Charter

During the IVOA executive meeting of Jan. 2004 in Garching, Germany, the IVOA Theory Interest Group was formed with the goal of ensuring that theoretical data and services are taken into account in the IVOA standards process. In a whitepaper published on the IVOA site issues specific to theory are discussed. The document also summarizes tasks that a possible theory working group should accomplish, listed here as a proposed charter for the group.

The IVOA Theory Interest Group will:

Provide a forum for discussing theory specific issues in a VO context.
Contribute to other IVOA working groups to ensure that theory specific requirements are included.
Incorporate standard approaches defined in these groups when designing and implementing services on theoretical archives.
Define standard services relevant for theoretical archives.
Promote development of services for comparing theoretical results to observations and vice versa.
Define relevant milestones and assign specific tasks to interested parties.

This Interest Group is chaired by Herve Wozniak, vice-chair is Claudio Gheller. It was chaired by Gerard Lemson till Spring 2008.

Theory Group Meetings

Follow these links to the Theory IG meetings - especially those at the IVOA Inter Op meetings. Here you will find the presentations made at those particular events.

Theory IG Session	At Meeting	When	Comments
InterOpMay2008Theory	InterOpMay2008	May 2008	Trieste
InterOpMay2007Theory	InterOpMay2007	May 2007	Beijing
SNAP Workshop, Garching	Theory-IG meeting	Apr 2007	Garching, Germany
InterOpMay2006Theory	InterOpMay2006	May 2006	Victoria
Cambridge Theory Workshop	Theory-IG meeting	Feb 2006	Cambridge, UK
InterOpOct2005Theory	InterOpOct2005	Oct 2005	Spain
InterOpMay2005Theory	InterOpMay2005	May 2005	Kyoto
InterOpSep2004Theory	InterOpSep2004	Sep 2004	Pune
InterOpMay2004Theory	InterOpMay2004	May 2004	CfA, Boston: Kick off meeting

Members

Gerard Lemson

Project Pages

The following links (will) lead to TWiki pages where the results of projects are given

Use cases
Semantics
SNAP and why SNAP has been split up in SimDB and SimDAP
Simulation datamodel Most results of this effort can now be found in the volute SVN repository on GoogleCode, originally set up by Norman Gray.
Data formats
General requirements

National contacts

Following the IVOA interoperability meeting in Cambridge, MA, USA May 2004, the various national VO's have assigned one or two contact persons for dealing with theory issues, representing the theory interest group to their community and vice versa, representing their community to the theory interest group. The following is the current list of these contact persons with their affiliation and e-mail addresses:

VO	Contact name	Contact email
AstroGrid	Nicholas Walton	naw@ast.cam.ac.uk
Autralia VO	Sarah Maddison	smaddison@swin.edu.au
INAF-Italy	Ugo Becciani	ube@ct.astro.it
France-VO	Hervé Wozniak	herve.wozniak@obs.univ-lyon1.fr
GAVO	Gerard Lemson	gerard.lemson@mpe.mpg.de
JVO	Dr. Matumoto	matumoto@astro.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
JVO	Dr. Kokubo	kokubo@th.nao.ac.jp
Korean VO	Jongsoo Kim	jskim@kao.re.kr
NVO	Dave De Young	deyoung@aspen.tuc.noao.edu
RVO	Leonid A. Kalinichenko	leonidk@synth.ipi.ac.ru
SVO	Miguel Cerviño	mcs@iaa.es

Links

This section aims to provide a poor-man's registry containing links to VO-like efforts in the field of theory. The format of the table is preliminary. Country may not be important, contacts should be added or confirmed.

Resource	Country	Contact
Aus-VO-Wiki.Theory	Australia
Cosmo.Lab	Italy
GalICS	France
Model of stellar population synthesis of the Galaxy	France
HORIZON	France
MODEST
NEMO	USA
Peter Teuben's TVO page	USA	Peter Teuben
The Art of Computational Science		Piet Hut and Jun Makino
MPA Virgo data download	Germany
Virtual Cluster Exploratory	USA	Gus Evrard
ITVO@Trieste	Italy	Patrizia Manzato
ITVO@Catania	Italy	Ugo Becciani
BaSTI	Italy	Patrizia Manzato

Papers

Title/link	Author(s)	Meeting	Comment
Theory in the VO	Gerard Lemson and Jörg Colberg
derriere-boston04.pdf	IVOA.SebastienDerriere	InterOpMay2004
walton-boston04.pdf	IVOA.NicholasWalton	InterOpMay2004
france-theory.pdf	IVOA.FrancoiseGenova	InterOpMay2004
shaw-1-boston04.pdf	IVOA.LaurieShaw	InterOpMay2004
mcglynn-boston04.ppt	IVOA.TomMcGlynn	InterOpMay2004
mcdowell-boston04.zip	IVOA.JonathanMcDowell	InterOpMay2004
shaw-simulationDM.pdf	IVOA.LaurieShaw		[SIMULATION] Data Model Draft V0.1
shaw-UCDproposal.pdf	IVOA.LaurieShaw		UCDs for simulations
Simulation.v.0.2.pdf	IVOA.LaurieShaw		[SIMULATION] Data Model Draft V0.2
N body Simulations Globular Clusters	Dave De Young	InterOpOct2005
Comparison Evolutionary Synthesis Modes	Enrique Solano	InterOpOct2005
Virtual Telescope and Theory roadmap	Gerard Lemson	InterOpOct2005

Mailing-list

General working-group discussion archive.

Use cases

During the interoperability meeting in Kyoto, 2005, it was decided that science use cases will be defined by a various members of the theory group. These were to be posted and used to extract requirements for the various IVOA working groups. A link to a page listing the submitted workpages can be accessed here.

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