Program Organizing Committee

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 (CADC), Daniel.Durand@hia.nrc.ca

Daniel currently serves as the Head of 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.

Allen Farris (NRAO), afarris@nrao.edu

Carlos Gabriel (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 ten 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.

Tom Handley (IPAC/Caltech/JPL), thh@ipac.caltech.edu

Tom is currently Deputy Manager of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center ( IPAC). Within IPAC, Tom is involved in science information development lifecycle across the board, from developing missions (SIRTF), to operational missions (2MASS) and the long-term curation of mission science products (IRSA). Recent research areas include data mining, including cross-identification, inforation discovery, data management, rapid access to Terabyte-size datasets, and science information systems architectures.

Richard Hook (ST-ECF), rhook@eso.org

Richard is an international staff member of the European Southern Observatory working in the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility. He has been involved in astronomical software for more than twenty years. From early days working on instrumentation software and system administration he is now mainly involved in software for handling data from the Hubble Space Telescope, including image restoration techniques and methods such as drizzling, developed for combining undersampled images from the Hubble Deep Field.

Athol Kemball (NCSA), akemball@uiuc.edu

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.

Christopher J. Miller (CTIO), cmiller@noao.edu

Chris is an assistant astronomer working for the National Optical Astronomy Observatory at Cerro-Tololo Interamerican Observatory in La Serena, Chile. His research interests include extragalactic studies, cosmology, galaxy formation, galaxy cluster, AGN, and computational astrostatistics. He leads the development of the NOAO NVO Portal as a member of the NOAO Data Products Program.

Koh-Ichiro Morita (NAOJ), morita@nro.nao.ac.jp

Koh-Ichiro is a member of the scientific staff at the Radio Astronomy Division of the National Astronomical Observatory Japan (NAOJ). He is also a computer system manager for the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO), NAOJ. Koh-Ichiro has been involved for many years in the development and operation of radio telescopes at NRO. Recently he has been participating in the development of software for ALMA. His research insterests include star formation and aperture synthesis imaging.

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.

Michele Peron (ESO), mperon@eso.org

Michele currently serves as the Head of the Data Flow System Group of the Data Management Division at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The group is responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of the data flow software components which are critical for the end-to-end operations of the VLT, VLTI, VST, and some of the La Silla telescopes, including Phase I and Phase II tools, archival systems, and instrument pipelines.

Arnold Rots, POC Chair (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).

Betty Stobie (Univ. of Arizona), bstobie@as.arizona.edu

Betty has been involved in scientific programming for over 30 years beginning with programming radar for missle systems (Raytheon) to weather radar (NCAR) to radio telescopes (NRAO). She was head of the software development for NRAO's 12-meter telescope for almost a decade. From there she became involved in programming for the Space Telescope Science Institute as programming supervisor for the STSDAS Group. Currently she is head of the Software Group for the NICMOS Project at University of Arizona's Steward Observatory.

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

Christian is currently the Senior Resident Astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, where he serves as Project Manager/Project Scientist for the CFHT MegaPrime Project. His current research areas include Kuiper Belt Objects, Near Earth asteroids, and Gamma Ray Bursters. 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 in 1996, 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.