plans from Kyoto meeting

Dear Collegues

During the session of the theory interest group in the Kyoto interop meeting it was decided that several groups would write up scientific use cases for the theory-VO
like activities they have so far been involved in. The use cases should pay particular
attention to those areas where IVOA standards and implementations can or should be used,
giving opinions on whether existing products suffice, or detailing discrepancies.

>From these use cases we will extract requirements on the various IVOA
working
group activities, to see whether existing results can be used in current or slightly
modified form, or whether new activities are necessary. The goal is to discuss these
requirements at the next interop meeting in Spain in October.

It was decided that 4 different areas would be investigated: large scale cosomological
simulations, medium scale (galaxy merger, jets) ones, theory spectra and atomic
and molecular scale.

The following groups/individuals volunteered to write use cases: - Large scale: Laurie Shaw; Gerard Lemson - Medium scale: Dave De Young, who will try to get contributions from Peter Teuben/Piet Hut
- theory spectra: Enrique Solano and Pedro Osuna; JHU/HVO - atomic scales: Marie Lise Dubernet

I propose the following time scales for this work, based on the goal that by the next
interop we have a first Working Draft with requirements: - "Note" from each groups with use cases by mid August. This gives 2 months. - Start of writing of requirements "Working Draft" (a group effort) by beginning of September.
- Version 0.1 of WD ready by next interop for discussion in theory session and in relevant
  working groups.

>From the volunteers I would like to get comments on whether the proposed
schedule
seems doable and adequate.

Everyone else please mail your comments to the theory mailing list which c/should also be
used for discussions about the contents of notes once they are put forward to the theory TWiki
page.

Thanks

Gerard

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