1. Presentation TitlePresentation subtitle Your name Your title, organisation

2. Introduction • Outline for your presentation • Second topic group • Third topic group EXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION

3. Introduction What is EXPReS? • EXPReS = Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service • Three year project, started March 2006, funded by the European Commission (DG-INFSO), Sixth Framework Programme, Contract #026642 • Objective: to create a distributed, large-scale astronomical instrument of continental and inter-continental dimensions • Means: high-speed communication networks operating in real-time and connecting some of the largest and most sensitive radio telescopes on the planet EXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION

4. Introduction EXPReS Partners Radio Astronomy Institutes • Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (Coordinator), The Netherlands • Arecibo Observatory, National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Cornell University, USA • Australia Telescope National Facility, a Division of CSIRO, Australia • Institute of Radioastronomy, National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy • Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, United Kingdom • Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), Germany • Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland • National Center of Geographical Information, National Geographic Institute (CNIG-IGN), Spain • Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, National Research Foundation, South Africa • Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (ASTRON), NWO, The Netherlands • Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden • Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China • Torun Centre for Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland • Transportable Integrated Geodetic Observatory (TIGO), University of Concepción, Chile • Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center, Ventspils University College, Latvia National Research Networks • AARNet, Australia • DANTE, United Kingdom • Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland • SURFnet, The Netherlands EXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION

5. Introduction Participating EXPReS Telescopes EXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION

6. Introduction EXPReS Network Diagram EXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION

7. Introduction Activities # Description Leader PC Project Coordinator Huib Jan van Langevelde (Interim), JIVE NA1 Management of I3 T. Charles Yun, JIVE NA2 EVN-NREN Forum John Chevers, DANTE NA3 eVLBI Science Forum John Conway, Chalmers NA4 Public Outreach Kristine Yun, JIVE SA1 Production Services Arpad Szomoru, JIVE SA2 Network Provisioning Francisco Colomer, CNIG-IGN JRA1 FABRIC Huib Jan van Langevelde, JIVE EXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION

8. Conclusion Questions/Answers • Contact information [your name] [your title] EXPReS (JIVE) [you] at jive dot nl • Additional Information http://expres-eu.org/ [note: only one “s”] http://www.jive.nl/ • EXPReS is made possible through the support of the European Commission (DG-INFSO), Sixth Framework Programme, Contract #026642 EXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION