Volker Beckmann: current activities

Current activities:

When ? What ? Where ?
October 3, 2023 French Data and Computing days (JCAD2023), where I give an update about the status of EOSC Reims
September 25-26, 2023 High-Level Conference "Global Dimension and Sustainability of Research Infrastructures" under the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU. Here I discussed EOSC and Open Science. Tenerife
September 20-22, 2023 EOSC Symposium 2023. The annual meeting of EOSC stakeholders. Madrid
July 6, 2023 Meeting of DGRI/MESR and DG-RTD (European Commission). Here I presented the EOSC-France status and ambition. Paris
June 20-22, 2023 e-Infrastructure Reflection Group workshop and delegates meeting Lund (Sweden)
June 19-20, 2023 Conference on "The Potential of Research Data: How Research Infrastructures Provide New Opportunities and Benefits for Society", organised under the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union Lund (Sweden)
June 13-14, 2023 EOSC-France national tripartite event Montpellier
June 6-7, 2023 Bi-regional EU-LAC Conference on Open Science. Here I am invited to a panel discussion on June 7 about "Open access policies in Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union" virtual
May 30 - June 9, 2023 School for young researchers to learn about the Transient Universe Cargèse (Corsica)
May 22-23, 2023 EOSC-Association General Assembly Brussels
May 4, 2023 Horizon Europe Programme Committee meeting for Research Infrastructures Brussels
April 26, 2023 EOSC Steering Board Meeting Stockholm
April 11, 2023 EOSC National Tripartite Event in the Netherlands Utrecht
April 6, 2023 Meeting of the Collège EOSC-France, the French national initiative for the European Open Science Cloud. virtual
March 30, 2023 Croatia National EOSC Tripartite Event. Here I present the EOSC Observatory Zagreb
March 28, 2023 Bulgaria national EOSC Tripartite Event. Here I participate (online) in a panel discussion about "EOSC policies and funding mechanisms at national and cross border levels" Sofia
March 23, 2023 Hungarian national EOSC Tripartite Event. Here I gave a presentation (online) of the member states' view on the EOSC vision. Budapest
January 26, 2023 SVOM Science Meeting at the IAP. Paris
January 24-26, 2023 Workshop about technical and practical aspects of EOSC in France Strasbourg
November 14-17, 2022 EOSC Symposium 2022 Prague
July 4, 2022 Brainstorming about the future of EOSC with representatives of the EOSC-Association, from the European Commission, and from the EU member states Brussels
June 17, 2022 EOSC Steering Board meeting Paris
June 7-8, 2022 e-IRG Delegates Meeting Paris
May 24-25 EOSC-Association General Assembly Brussels
May 4, 2022 Workshop: National Policies relevant to EOSC deployment Strasbourg
May 3, 2022 EOSC Policy Meeting Strasbourg
May 2, 2022 Introduction to EOSC at Strasbourg University Strasbourg
December 13-15, 2021 JCAD 2021 (Journees calcul et donnees; Computing and data workshop). Here I present the status and evolution of EOSC on Monday afternoon. virtual
December 1+2, 2021 e-IRG workshop virtual
November 26, 2021 Meeting of the Evaluation and Survey Committee of CC-IN2P3 Lyon
October 20, 2021 EOSC Workshop "From Policy to Practice" virtual
October 11-17, 2021 INTEGRAL Workshop. I joint this event online and gave a presentation on October 14 about Open Science from INTEGRAL onwards Santa Margherita di Pula
September 21, 2021 Awareness day in preparation for the French presidency of the Council of the European Union. Information and discussion day organised at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA). Paris
September 6, 2021 Second Horizon Europe EOSC Workshop for the French research community virtual
July 5-8, 2021 Training on International Lobbying for Open Science, organised by IHEDN Lille
June 21, 2021 Presentation about "Open Science and Astrophysics" at the 3rd Conference on Challenges and Innovations in Computational Astrophysics virtual
June 11, 2021 Horizon Europe EOSC Workshop virtual
May 6, 2021 Online seminar about Open Science and Astrophysics: Are we there yet? virtual
April 8, 2021 EOSC Steering Board meeting virtual
March 22, 2021 EOSC-Pillar France Workshop virtual
March 16, 2021 e-IRG Delegates Meeting virtual
February 4/5, 2021 European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) France Workshop virtual
December 16, 2020 Last meeting of the EOSC Governance Board virtual
December 15, 2020 Open Science day of the Conférence des présidents d'université (CPU). Presentation about the EOSC. virtual
December 4, 2020 Meeting of the European projects experts of CNRS/IN2P3. Presentation about the EOSC programme, how the European program results in projects in the labs of IN2P3 and what the future opportunities will be. virtual
December 3, 2020 Journées Calcul Données 2020, the yearly meeting of data treatment and computing experts in France. Presentation about the European Open Science Cloud. virtual
November 27, 2020 EOSC Governance Board meeting virtual
September 1, 2020 I started working at the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) as agent for the EOSC in France Paris
June 2-5, 2020 Meeting of the Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC) at CERN. CERN (Virtual)
May 18-20,2020 LHCC Computing Review for High-Luminosity LHC at CERN CERN (Virtual)
April 27/28, 2020 EOSC Validation Workshop, where I chair a session on EOSC relevant infrastructures and initiatives Virtual
April 27/28, 2020 Meeting of the CERN LHC Resource Review Board CERN (Virtual)
March 10/11, 2020 Retreat of the IN2P3 management Cabourg
February 18-20, 2020 Meeting of the Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC) at CERN. Geneva
Febuary 11, 2020 Bilateral meeting of JINR and IN2P3 management Paris
February 3, 2020 Bilateral meeting of INFN and IN2P3 management Rome
January 22, 2020 Journée EOSC au CNRS. One day workshop to discuss involvement and opportunities of CNRS within the European Open Science Cloud. Paris
January 8, 2020 Interview about the CNRS-EOSC challenge in the CNRS News (in French). Paris
December 6, 2019 Meeting of the steering committee of the MUST Computing Centre at the Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules. Annecy
December 2-3, 2019 Journees thematiques IN2P3: Quantum Computing at IPNO Orsay
November 26-28, 2019 EOSC Symposium 2019 Budapest
November 26, 2019 IN2P3 projects presentation day Paris
November 19-21, 2019 Meeting of the Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC) at CERN. Geneva
November 18, 2019 National Open Science Day at Sorbonne University. Paris
October 30, 2019 Presentation about the European Open Science Cloud: Opportunities and risks for your work at the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica Milano. Milan
October 17/18, 2019 Town hall meeting to discuss the perspectives of IN2P3 in the domain computing and data science for the next 10 years Clermont-Ferrand
October 8, 2019 CNRS Open Science Day Paris
September 29, 2019 The directors of IN2P3 laboratories and the IN2P3 management met at the European Gravitational Observatory, the site of the Virgo experiment. Pisa
September 26/27, 2019 Workshop about "Research Data" at the ministry for higher education, research and innovation (MESRI). Paris
September 11/12, 2019 Welcoming event for the new colleagues at CNRS/IN2P3 Lyon
September 10-12, 2019 Working meeting of the Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC) at CERN Geneva
September 4, 2019 EGI Council meeting Amsterdam
September 3, 2019 EGI Council Workshop on upcoming INFRAEOSC calls Amsterdam
July 3-5, 2019 Kick-off meeting of the EOSC-Pillar project. Rome
June 21, 2019 Defense of the thesis of my PhD student Van Tuan Bui at APC. Paris
June 20, 2019 Presentation of the EOSC vision at the Research Data Day at ENSEA. Cergy
June 14, 2019 Presentation of the results of the EOSCpilot project at the European Commission Brussels
May 27 - June 5, 2019 Cargèse school on Cosmic Explosion 2019. Cargèse (Corsica)
April 26, 2019 Visit of IPHC for the steering committee of the SCIGNE computing platform and for general discussion of computing and data science Strasbourg
April 15/16, 2019 PLAN-E meeting at GARR Rome
April 10/11 Meeting of the CNAF Technical and Scientific Committee Bologna
April 4, 2019 Visit of the LPC laboratory Clermont-Ferrand
March 13, 2019 Bilateral meeting of INFN and IN2P3 management Paris
February 25-28, 2019 LHC Experiments Committee meeting at CERN Geneva
February 25, 2019 Discussion with Thomas Skordas, director of DG-CONNECT for Digital Excellence and Science Infrastructure. Brussels
February 12/13, 2019 Bilateral meeting between JINR and IN2P3 management Dubna (Russia)
February 7/8, 2019 Kick-off meeting of the ESCAPE project Annecy
January 28/29, 2019 Retreat of the IN2P3 management Arcachon
January 17, 2019 Projects presentation day at the CC-IN2P3 computing centre Lyon
January 16, 2019 SVOM Science Meeting at the IAP Paris
December 14, 2018 Meeting of the Steering Committee of the MUST computing platform at LAPP Annecy
November 27, 2018 Workshop about interoperability and data preservation and how to put the FAIR data principle into action. Here I was the Grand témoin and gave an opening and a summary presentation. Paris
November 21/22, 2018 Second EOSC Stakeholders Forum. This is a 2-day conference to discuss the results of the EOSCpilot project. Here I chaired the discussion about data and infrastructure interoperability Vienna
November 8/9, 2018 STFC and IN2P3 bilateral meeting Didcot (UK)
November 7/8, 2018 INTEGRAL Users Group Committee meeting at ESTEC Noordwijk (The Netherlands)
October 25, 2018 Presentation at the French days of computing and data science JCAD 2018. Here I gave a presentation about OpenScience, see the video of the presentation here (in French). Lyon
October 8, 2018 Ganil Community Meeting. Discussing the progress and work to be done in heavy ion research at the Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds. Caen
October 3-5, 2018 Welcoming event for the new colleagues at CNRS/IN2P3 Cice-Blossac (Rennes)
October 1/2, 2018 Bi-annual meeting of the colleagues of CNRS/IN2P3 and of CEA/Irfu working in the IT sector. Here I give a presentation about the vision and perspective of computing and data science at CNRS/IN2P3. Port-Bail
September 20, 2018 CERN Scientific Computing Forum and meeting of EU-T0. Geneva
September 11-13, 2018 Meeting of the Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC) at CERN. Geneva
August 20-31, 2018 IAU General Assembly where we organised a focus meeting about Radio Galaxies: Resolving the AGN Phenomenon. Vienna, Austria
July 11/12, 2018 EGI Council meeting Amsterdam
July 2, 2018 EGO External Computing Committee meeting Pisa, Italy
June 27, 2018 France Grid Infrastructure Operations Workshop. Montpellier
May 23/24, 2018 EOSCpilot meeting to discuss the future architecture of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Amsterdam
April 23/24, 2018 CERN LHC Experiments Resource Review Board meeting Geneva
April 19/20, 2018 Plan-E plenary meeting at CNRS Paris
April 11-13, 2018 ATLAS Technical Design Review meeting at CERN Geneva
April 5-6, 2018 Visit of the direction of IN2P3 at Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM). Modane, France
March 29, 2018 Artificial Intelligence day at the College de France. Paris
March 12, 2018 EOSCpilot Mid-Term Review Brussels
February 28 - March 1, 2018 Meeting of the Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC) at CERN. Geneva
February 26-27, 2018 Meeting of the direction of IN2P3 with representatives of STFC. Harwell, UK
February 8-9, 2018 EU-T0 consortium board meeting. Bologna, Italy
November 29 - December 1, 2017 Meeting of the Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC) at CERN. Geneva
October 18-19, 2017 EOSCpilot meeting to discuss governance models for the EOSC. Brussels
October 17, 2017 Meeting of the direction of IN2P3 with representatives of the Helmholtz Gesellschaft. Karlsruhe, Germany
October 16, 2017 Journees SUCCES the yearly meeting of France Grilles, the French grid and cloud computing infrastructure. Presentation about the perspectives for France Grilles. Grenoble, France
October 4-5, 2017 EOSCpilot workshop on data interoperability. Hinxton, UK
September 28, 2017 Presentation about the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) at the Conseille d'Administration of RENATER. Paris
September 11-14, 2017 Meeting of the Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC) at CERN. Geneva
September 8, 2017 Meeting with members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the CC-IN2P3. Presentation of the "e-infrastructures for science in France and Europe" Lyon
September 4, 2017 EU-T0 consortium board meeting at CNRS. Paris
August 31, 2017 Seminar about "BigData in Astrophysics" at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC). Villafranca (Spain)
June 28-30, 2017 EGI Council meeting. Amsterdam
May 2017 - August 2020 I was member of the Large Hadron Collider Experiments Committee (LHCC). The Committee follows the development of the experimental programme for LHC and monitors the progress of approved experiments. CERN
May 2017 - August 2019 I was chair of the EU-T0 Consortium Board. EU-T0 is a consortium of funding agencies and organisations in Europe which between them fund and provide very large scale computing and data processing resources for a set of scientific communities which already have Exabyte scale requirements. Europe
March 29, 2017 EU-T0 consortium board meeting London
March 15, 2017 First Editorial Board meeting of the new journal Computing and Software for Big Science at CERN Geneva
March 13, 2017 Workshop about Machine Learning Paris
February 22, 2017 Workshop about High-Throughput and High-Performance Computing. Paris
January 17-19, 2017 Kick-off meeting for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) pilot project. CNRS/IN2P3 is an important partner here, leading one of the work packages. On January 19 there will be an information and discussion day concerning the EOSC call EINFRA-12. Amsterdam
December 12-13, 2016 We organised an Interdisciplinary workshop on time series analysis at University Paris Descartes. Paris
November 23-24, 2016 Yearly meeting of France Grilles, the French grid computing infrastructure. Here I presented the European Open Science Cloud, participated in a round table discussion on Data Management, and presented the vision of IN2P3 on the evolution of France Grilles. All presentations are available as Webcasts. Paris
September 26-29, 2016 Journees Informatique IN2P3-IRFU, meeting of the personell involved in IT in IN2P3 and Irfu. Here I gave a presentation about the vision of the direction of IN2P3 on computing and data science (webcast). Grand Lioran
May 23 - June 1, 2016 We organised a spring school on Astrophysical Jets in Cargèse. Here I gave the lectures on Active Galactic Nuclei. Corsica
May 2016 - August 2020 I worked at CNRS headquarters as scientific director of IN2P3, being responsible for the domain of computing and data science. Paris
April 10-15, 2016 Workshop The Deep and Transient Universe in the SVOM Era: New Challenges and Opportunities at the Ecole de Physique des Houches. Les Houches (France)
March 30/31, 2016 Annual convention of the PNHE at the APC. Presentation about "Le calcul pour l'observation en astrophysique/astroparticules : état et besoins" Paris
March 22, 2016 Jours de Prospective USPC at the APC. Paris
March 9/10, 2016 INTEGRAL Users Group meeting at ESTEC Noordwijk
February 26, 2016 Seminar at Hamburg Observatory about Sky Surveys and BigData. Hamburg
February 3, 2016 Seminar at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) about "AGN with INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton". Darmstadt (Germany)
January 7/8, 2016 Euclid France meeting at the APC. Paris
January 6/7, 2016 SVOM Ground Segment meeting. Toulouse
December 18, 2015 Seminar at DESY about Big Data as a Challenge for Astrophysics. Hamburg
December 10/11, 2015 Workshop about Distributed Computing in Astrophysics at the FACe Paris
December 3, 2015 Successful launch of ESA's LISA-Pathfinder mission on a Vega rocket from Kourou. French Guiana
October 26-28, 2015 Athena+/X-IFU consortium meeting at IRAP. Toulouse
October 12-14, 2015 eLISA Consortium Meeting at the APC Paris
October 5-9, 2015 INTEGRAL Workshop "The New High Energy Sky after a Decade of Discoveries" Rome
October 1-2, 2015 SVOM non-GRB science working meeting. Strasbourg
June 8-12, 2015 Euclid Consortium Meeting Lausanne
March 18/19, 2015 SVOM non-GRB science working meeting at the FACe. Paris
March 13, 2015 Big-Data conference at the Institut Henri Poincaré. Here I gave an invited talk about Big-Data as a challenge for astrophysics. Paris
November 11, 2014 Seminar about "Active Galactic Nuclei: the known and the unknown" at the University of Bielefeld. Bielefeld
November 5-6, 2014 PREDONx Workshop on Scientific Data Preservation at APC. Paris
October 28-30, 2014 Athena+/X-IFU workshop in Frascati. Rome
September 15-19, 2014 10th INTEGRAL Workshop in Annapolis. Oral presentations on gamma-ray emitting radio galaxies and on SVOM. Maryland (USA)
September 8, 2014 SVOM kick-off meeting at CNES. Toulouse
August 2-10, 2014 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Here I was deputy scientific organiser of a 3-half-day session on "Outflows and Accretion from White Dwarfs to Supermassive Black Holes". I also gave two talks about gamma-ray detected radio galaxies. Moscow
June 16-19, 2014 Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Multi-messenger Era conference at the IPGP. Paris
May 7-9, 2014 Euclid Consortium Meeting Marseille
April 14+15, 2014 ApPEC meeting about "The Astroparticle Physics Computing Model". Bologna (Italy)
April 11, 2014 Seminar about "Active Galactic Nuclei: the known and the unknown" at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera. Milan
April 9, 2014 SVOM/ECLAIRs Science Meeting at the IAP. Paris
March 12-13 eLISA Consortium Meeting Zurich
December 19, 2013 Seminar at DESY about Active Galactic Nuclei. Hamburg
December 18, 2013 Seminar at Hamburg Observatory about Active Galactic Nuclei. Hamburg
November 22, 2013 Seminar at ESO Garching about "Active Galactic Nuclei: questions about the central engine". Munich
October 15-18, 2013 Workshop on "INTEGRAL's journey through the high energy sky". Here I gave an invited oral presentation about broad-band spectra of AGN with INTEGRAL. Rome
September 24, 2013 InSight mission meeting at the IPGP. Presentation: "The François Arago Centre: Providing services for the InSight mission". Paris
September 10-13, 2013 Conference on "Scientific Operations" at ESAC. Oral presentation about Flexible Data Processing Solutions for Space Missions. Villafranca (Spain)
May 27-29, 2013 INTEGRAL Time Allocation Committee meeting at ESAC Villafranca (Spain)
May 13-16, 2013 Euclid Consortium Meeting Leiden
April 29 - May 8, 2013 We organised a spring school on Cosmic Accelerators in Cargèse. Here I gave the lectures on Active Galactic Nuclei. Corsica
March 17-20, 2013 Fermi review panel meeting in Baltimore. Afterwards, working meeting at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Maryland
January 15+16, 2013 Workshop on scientific perspectives in the MeV domain at the APC. Here I gave a presentation on the opportunities offered by observations of AGN in the MeV range. Paris
October 22+23, 2012 First eLISA Consortium Meeting. Here I gave a talk about "APC and the eLISA data centre". Paris
October 15-19, 2012 9th INTEGRAL Workshop "An INTEGRAL view of the high-energy sky (the first 10 years)". Here I gave an oral presentation on gamma-ray detected radio galaxies and presented a poster on "The AGN phenomenon: open issues". Paris
July 14-22, 2012 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Here I was main scientific organiser of a 3-half-day session on Seyfert galaxies. Mysore (India)
March 2, 2012 Online lecture "Active Galactic Nuclei: the known and the unknown". See the recorded video on-line. Paris
January 21-27, 2012 Conference on "The Physics of Astronomical Transients". Talk: "Variable hard X-ray emission from M87". Aspen (Colorado)
June 27-30, 2011 The X-ray Universe 2011 conference. Here I gave a talk about "The dominant emission process of the X-ray spectrum of Cen A". Berlin
May 22-26, 2011 Invited talk about unification of AGN at the 218th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. In addition, I am presenting a poster on the Seyfert galaxy NGC 2110. Boston, MA
October 7+8, 2010 ASPERA Workshop at the CC-IN2P3 about "Computing and Astroparticle Physics". Oral presentation of the François Arago Centre. Lyon
September 10, 2010 Defense of my habilitation thesis (HDR) Unification of Active Galactic Nuclei at X-rays and soft gamma-rays at the APC. Paris
April 27-29, 2010 IXO Science Meeting. Poster presentation: "AGN at hardest X-rays and the perspectives for IXO". Paris
September 2009 until April 2016 I worked at the APC laboratory in order to lead the François Arago Centre, a data and computing centre for Astrophysics. Paris
May 14, 2009 Successful launch of ESA's Planck and Herschel mission French Guiana
March 27, 2009 Colloquium in honour of Prof. Dieter Reimers (Hamburg Observatory). Presentation: "The X-ray Sky from ROSAT to INTEGRAL" (in German) Town hall Hamburg Bergedorf
February 19, 2009 Journée Spatiale IN2P3 at the APC Paris
February 12+13, 2009 Simbol-X Joint Scientific Mission Group meeting. Presentation: "The Swiss interest in Simbol-X" Paris
December 2-5, 2008 Simbol-X symposium at the APC, where I gave a presentation about "Compton reflection in AGN with Simbol-X" Paris
November 4, 2008 Presentation at the APC about "Lessons learnt from INTEGRAL about super-massive black holes" Paris
June 11, 2008 Successful launch of the Fermi mission. Florida
November 2007 Astrophysics 2020: Large Space Missions Beyond the Next Decade, conference at STScI. Here I presented a poster about the ISDC. Baltimore
April 2007 - August 2009 I worked as Operations Coordinator and INTEGRAL project manager at the ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics Versoix near Geneva (Switzerland)
January 2007 AAS meeting. Here I gave a presentation about The Hard X-ray 20-40 keV AGN Luminosity Function and we had a joined Swift and INTEGRAL booth. Seattle
December 2006 Colloquium at the Department of Physics at the University of Louisville: "Swift Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts", and a popular talk at the planetarium: "The Violent Universe - NASA's high energy missions" Video of the presentation (Real Player) Louisville (Kentucky)
September - December 2006 I gave the lecture "Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology" (PHYS316) at UMBC Baltimore
2006 - 2007 Research Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Baltimore
July 2006 Press release about my work on INTEGRAL detected AGNs  
April 2006 We organised the astrophysical school Observing the X- and Gamma-ray Sky Cargèse (Corsica/France)
July 2005 Press release about my work on IGR J16283-4838  
November 20, 2004 at 12:16 p.m. EST Successful launch of Swift Florida
September - December 2004 I gave the lecture Stellar Astrophysics at UMBC. Baltimore
July 2004 ESA press release and NASA press release concerning my work about NGC4388.  
October 2003 until March 2007 I worked for the University of Maryland Baltimore County at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, near Washington D.C.
October 17, 2002, at 4:41 a.m. (GMT) INTEGRAL launch Baikonur (Kazakhstan)
February 2001 - September 2003 Postdoc at the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre Versoix near Geneva
January 12, 2001 The defense of my PhD at Hamburg Observatory Hamburg (Germany)