1. Presentation Title Presentation subtitle Your name Your title, organisation

2. PRESENTATION DATEEXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATIONSlide #2 Introduction Outline for your presentation Second topic group Third topic group

3. PRESENTATION DATEEXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATIONSlide #3 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 Introduction

4. PRESENTATION DATEEXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATIONSlide #4 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 Introduction

5. PRESENTATION DATEEXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATIONSlide #5 Participating EXPReS Telescopes Introduction

6. PRESENTATION DATEEXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATIONSlide #6 EXPReS Network Diagram Introduction

7. PRESENTATION DATEEXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATIONSlide #7 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 Introduction

8. PRESENTATION DATEEXPReS- TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATIONSlide #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