ADASS Conference Series

Pascal Ballester (ESO) pballest@eso.org

Pascal Ballester is Head of the Pipeline Systems Department at the European Southern Observatory. He joined ESO in 1990, to integrate the Image Processing Group for the development of instrument-related software in MIDAS. He coordinated several projects for the Very Large Telescope, including data reduction software for the high-resolution spectrograph UVES of the Very Large Telescope, the ESO Exposure Time Calculators, and Data Flow System for the VLT Interferometer.  Since 2007, he leads the ESO Pipeline Systems Department, responsible for the development of data reduction software and observation preparation models for the VLT and ALMA facilities.

David Barnes (Swinburne) david.g.barnes@gmail.com

David Barnes is the senior research fellow in visualisation at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, Australia. At Swinburne, David is responsible for the scientific visualisation requirements of the astronomers, and contributes to the public outreach and commercial activities of the Centre. David has been active in developing astronomy software for a number of years, and beyond his focus on visualisation techniques, has contributed advanced processing algorithms for 21-cm and pulsar radio astronomy.

Daniel Durand - POC Exec (CADC) Daniel.Durand@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Daniel currently serves as an Astronomer with the Canadian Astronomy Data Center.

Daniel Egret (CDS) Daniel.Egret@obspm.fr

Daniel is currently president of Observatoire de Paris (Paris Observatory). As an astronomer at the Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) until 2003, he has been involved in the activities of data centers at an international level, and has contributed to define concepts and tools for the Virtual Observatory. Daniel's research interests include the study of our Galaxy through the use of optical and infrared surveys (Hipparcos, Tycho, DENIS, GAIA), and the development of innovative tools and technologies for data and information handling.

Carlos Gabriel - POC Chair (ESA-ESAC) Carlos.Gabriel@sciops.esa.int

Carlos is a staff member of the European Space Agency, currently working in the XMM-Newton Space Operations Centre, at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), located in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain. He has been working in astronomical software development for more than 15 years as well as participating in the calibration of infrared and x-ray space-bourne instruments. Currently he is leading the XMM-Newton scientific analysis software development team.

Tony Krueger - POC Exec (STScI) krueger@stsci.edu

Tony Krueger is the Chief Engineer for Planning and Scheduling at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is responsible for the technical oversight of the James Webb Space Telescope's and the Hubble Space Telescope's planning and scheduling software systems.

Deborah Levine (IPAC/Caltech)

Jim Lewis (IoA) jrl@ast.cam.ac.uk

Jim Lewis is a scientist at the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit at the University of Cambridge. He has been involved in developing data reduction and pipeline software for about 15 years principally in the optical and infrared wavebands. He is currently writing the pipelines for WFCAM (UKIRT's new multi-detector imager) and for VISTA. In addition to his work in data reduction, he is also responsible for the CASU data centre which archives almost all of the optical and infrared telescope data from the UK's ground-based facilities.

Nuria Lorente (NRAO)

François Ochsenbein (CDS) francois@astro.u-strasbg.fr

François Ochsenbein is an astronomer currently in charge of the ''Astronomical Catalogues'' service at the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg, and he is concerned about its scientific contents as well as the tools to access these data. He is also involved in the developments of the Virtual Observatory concepts and tools.

Ray Plante (NCSA) rplante@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Arnold Rots (SAO) arots@head.cfa.harvard.edu

Arnold Rots started out as a radio astronomer and is currently the archive astrophysicist for the Chandra X-ray Observatory Science Center (CXC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, MA, USA. His specialty in the Virtual Observatory context is metadata for Space-Time Coordinates. He also chairs the North-American FITS committee and the Astrophysics Data Centers Executive Council (ADEC).

Keith Shortridge (AAO) ks@aao.gov.au

Keith works at the Australian Astronomical Observatory, and has many years of experience developing astronomical software, mainly for instrument control and data reduction. He is particularly interested in the use of hardware simulation in instrument control software projects, and in ways of displaying astronomical data.

Betty Stobie - POC Exec (NOAO) bstobie@noao.edu

Betty has been involved in scientific programming for over 40 years beginning with programming radar for missile systems (Raytheon) to weather radar (NCAR) to control and analysis software for single dish radio telescopes (NRAO). From there she became involved in programming for the Space Telescope Science Institute as programming supervisor for the STSDAS Group followed by serving as the head of the Software Group for the NICMOS Project at University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. Currently Betty is head of the Science Data Management Program at NOAO.

Tadafumi Takata (NAOJ) tadafumi.takata@nao.ac.jp

Tadafumi is an astronomer based on optical/near infrared observation and has worked for 10 years on the data archive system of the Japanese Subaru telescope. He is currently an associate professor at the Astronomy Data Center (ADC) of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in charge of data management.

Christian Veillet (CFHT) veillet@cfht.hawaii.edu

Christian is currently the Executive Director at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, which he joined in 1996 as Resident Astronomer. He was the Project Manager/Project Scientist for the CFHT MegaPrime Project and led the work of the CFHT Legacy Survey Working and Steering Groups. His current research areas include Kuiper Belt Objects, Near Earth asteroids, and Lunar Sciences. Back in the late 1970s/early 1980s, he made studies of the dynamics of Uranus and Neptune satellites prior to the Voyager fly-by. Before joining CFHT, he spent 12 years at Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur in charge of the French Lunar Laser Ranging station. There he studied space experiments using light pulses traveling in space for synchronizing atomic clocks and testing some aspects of general relativity.

Christian also wrote and installed the telescope control software for the Korean Mt Bohyun telescope, the THEMIS solar telescope and the Zimmerwald satellite laser ranging station.