GLOW Executive Committee
GLOW members assemble once in a year for the GLOW Annual Assembly. At this occasion the GLOW Council convenes, which is the supreme panel of GLOW. It makes all primary decisions of GLOW and elects the GLOW Executive Committee (EC), which represents and acts on behalf of GLOW between the Council meeting. The EC organizes regular telecons of the Extended Executive Committee, which additionally comprises working group chairs and vice chairs beside the EC.
The members of the executive committee are:
- Matthias Hoeft (Tautenburg, chair)
- Benedetta Ciardi (Garching, vice chair)
- Volker Heesen (Hamburg, secretary)
GLOW Working Groups
GLOW has established the following working groups:
- Scientific Working Group (SWG)
led by Marcus Brüggen (chair, Hamburg) - LOFAR Working Group (LofarWG)
comprises LOFAR station owners, LTA hardware owners and KSP representatives, led by Dominik Schwarz (chair, Bielefeld)
with subgroup
- Technical Working Group (TWG)
led by Jörn Künsemöller (co-chair, Bielefeld) and David Rafferty (co-chair, Hamburg) - D-MeerKAT working group (D-MeerKAT WG)
led by Dominik Schwarz (chair, Bielefeld) and Hans-Rainer Klöckner - Resource Allocation Committee (RAC)
led by Matthias Hoeft (chair, Tautenburg) - SKA Working Group (GLOWSKA)
activities are led by the Verein für datenintensive Radioastronomie e.V.
GLOW has nominated Dominik Schwarz (Bielefeld) as representative at the International LOFAR Telescope Board.
Michel Kramer is representative at the SKA board.
Extended GLOW Executive Committee
The extended EC comprises the GLOW EC, the working group chairs and vice chairs, representatives at international boards and at selection committees.
Currently the extended EC has the following members: Marcus Brüggen, Benedetta Ciardi, Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar, Volker Heesen, Matthias Hoeft, Hans-Rainer Klöckner, Michael Kramer and Dominik Schwarz
The extended GLOW EC meets every third Thursday a month at 8:30am, except agreed otherwise. Next meetings in 2023 and 2024 are :
Upcoming in 2024:
September 19, 8:30am
October 17, 8:30am
November at Radio2024
December 12, 8:30am