EuroVO-DCA, Work Package 3: Visits of experienced VObs persons to Data Centres, national meetings or sites selected by partners

Date	Partner	Data Centre Visited	Description of the visit
23 Nov 2006	ESO	INAF	Visit of P. Padovani to the ``VObs.it -- Osservatorio Virtuale Italiano'' Workshop in Monteporzio, Italy
04-05 Dec 2006	CNRS	AstroGrid	Visit of M. Allen to the 'Scientific Research using AstroGrid' and 'Radio data publishing and pipelines' Workshops in Oxford
11 Dec 2006	CNRS	NOVA	Visit of Sébastien Derriere to the Virtual Observations courses in Groningen to present and discuss the CDS services
8 Jan 2007	CNRS	NOVA	Visit of Mark Allen to the Virtual Observation courses in Groningen to present and discuss VO tools and services and science usage
02-04 May 2007	AstroGrid (LU)	CDS	Visit of Mark Taylor to CDS to discuss TOPCAT and many other topics
18-19 Jun 2007	MPG	CNRS	Visit of G. Lemson to the French VO Theory WG meeting in Lyon (also WP4)
27-28 Sep 2007	LU	AstroGrid @ Cambridge UK	Jonathan Tedds attended IVOA Interoperability meeting to feed back information from data publishers at DCA workshops to IVOA technical standards process (WP3-2)
08-11 Oct 2007	ESA	AstroGrid @ Edinburgh	Pedro Osuna, Isa Barbarisi and Aurelien Stebe attended VOTECH DSRP to discuss IVOA standards
9-10 Oct 2007	LU	AstroGrid @ Edinburgh	Jonathan Tedds attended DSRP to discuss data publishing & IVOA standards (WP3-2)
15-17 Oct 2007	ESA	Moletaj Observatory, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy of Vilnius University, Lituania	Jesus Salgado and Aurelien Stebe presented IVOA protocols and ESAVO Data Publishing tools at the Lituanian Astronomy Workshop (WP6)
18-19 Oct 2007	CNRS	idem	Sébastien Derriere and Françoise Genova presented the IVOA standards, Euro-VO and the CDS services in the VO at the same Workshop (WP6)
19 Oct 2007	INAF	idem	Riccardo Smareglia presented the prototype integration of theory data in the VO, interoperability with computational grids and VO-compliant visualisation and data mining tools at the same Workshop (WP6)
20-22 Feb 2008	ESA	AstroGrid (UKIDSS) @ Edinburgh	Pedro Osuna and Aurelien Stebe visited AstroGrid in Edinburgh to help publishing UKIDSS images and spectra using ESAVO Data Publishing tools
28-29 Feb 2008	INTA	UNED, Madrid	J. M. Gutiérrez, Á. Berihuete and A. Jiménez visited L. M. Sarro at UNED to discuss about knowledge discovery in solar databases
30 Mar- 02 Apr 2008	INTA	IAA, Granada, Spain	Carlos Rodrigo visited IAA to discuss about the S3 protocol for theoretical data
14-18 Apr 2008	ESO	ESA @ Madrid	Bruno Rino visited Aurelien Stebe (ESA) in Madrid to integrate ESO Data Ingestion and Mapping tool (MEX) and ESAVO Data Publishing tool (DALToolKit)
3-5 May 2008	INTA	IAC, Tenerife, Spain	Miriam Aberasturi visited IAC to discuss about VO and its application in the discovery of ultracool objects
6-7 May 2008	INTA	IAA, Granada, Spain	Enrique Solano visited IAA to discuss the use of VO archives for asteroseismology projects
11 Jun 2008	INTA	IAA, Granada, Spain	Enrique Solano presented the VO-compliant Calar Alto Archive at the Calar Alto Instrumentation Workshop
7-9 Sep 2008	INTA	UNED, Madrid	Ángel Berihuete visited L.M. Sarro to discuss about knowledge discovery in solar databases
6-8 Oct 2008	ESA, ESO	Kiev, Ukraine	Christophe Arviset (ESA) and Paolo Padovani (ESO) presented EURO-VO, ESAVO and ESO activities at the CODATA conference.
Nov 2008 (TBC)	ESA	ASDC, Frascati, Italy	Support to the ASI Science Data Center (to be organized)

See also WP6 page which keeps track of the support given to data centres from other european countries.

-- ChristopheArviset - 31 Oct 2007