The US National Virtual Observatory hosted its fourth Summer School on 3-11 September, 2008, at The Lodge at Santa Fe, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Forty-seven participants worked with experienced NVO scientists and software developers to learn how to do astrophysics with the Virtual Observatory. Participants also had the opportunity to work on self-motivated projects, building VO-enabled applications and doing VO-enabled research.
The US NVO Project greatly appreciates the sponsorship of NSF and NASA for the Summer School, and thanks the participants for their attention and interest in the Virtual Observatory.
Lectures and Software
Below is the master index to the contents of this distribution. Material is organized as lecture notes, either as slides (powerpoint, PDF), or as a continuous text (HTML). Many of the lectures have associated exercises and sample code, which can be used pedagogically, or as the start of a software project.
In order to use the exercises and sample code the software bundle must be properly installed on your machine. To do this, you should follow the software installation instructions here. In addition to the exercises and sample code, there are some standard software packages in the distribution. These include astronomical software like Aladin, Mirage, TOPCat, VOPlot, as well as the web-server and development tools Apache Tomcat, Apache Axis, and Ant. These latter are installed as part of the software installation process. A full description of the software distribution is available.
Participants
Faculty
- Roy Williams, Caltech (chair)
- Michael Fitzpatrick, NOAO
- Kirk Borne, George Mason University
- Dave De Young, NOAO
- Matthew Graham, Caltech
- Gretchen Greene, STScI
- Robert Hanisch, STScI
- Simon Krughoff, University of Washington
- Thomas McGlynn, NASA GSFC
- Chris Miller, NOAO
- Ray Plante, NCSA/University of Illinois
- Doug Tody, NRAO
Participants
- Geert Barentsen, European Space Agency
- Irene Barg, NOAO
- Leon Baruah, University of Sussex
- Sudhanshu Barway, IUCAA
- Jillian Bellovary, University of Washington
- Marcel Bergmann, Unaffiliated (former Gemini)
- Edi Bon, Belgrade Observatory
- Eli Bressert, CfA/Chandra X-Ray Center
- Seth Bruch, Michigan State University
- Jim Cant, Center for Astrophysics
- Jared Crossley, NRAO
- Raffaele D'Abrusco, University Federico II Naples
- Giannina Dalle-Mese, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica
- Andrew Davis, Yale University
- Diane Dietrich, Cornell University Library
- Jayce Dowell, Indiana University
- Ron DuPlain, NRAO
- Kathy Eastwood, Northern Arizona University
- Francisco Fuenmayor, Universidad de Los Andes - Venezuela.
- Exequiel Fuentes, NOAO (CTIO)
- Arti Garg, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
- Katy Garmany, NOAO
- Heidi Gneiser, CfA- Harvard
- Jiangang Hao, University of Michigan
- Greg Hennessy, USNO
- Fabiola Hernandez, CIDA Venezuela
- Gyongyi Kerekes, Eotvos Lorand University - Budapest
- Richard Kinne, American Association of Variable Star Observers
- Charles C. Kirkpatrick IV, University of Waterloo
- Kristen Larson, Western Washington University
- Omar Laurino, INFN (Italy)
- Leandro Martelli, DES - Brazil
- Cecilia Mateu, CIDA Venezuela
- Kenneth Mighell, NOAO/NASA
- Bo Milvang-Jensen, University of Copenhagen
- Simon Murphy, ANU
- Silvana Navarro, Universidad de Guadalajara
- Pragyansmita Nayak, George Mason University
- Brian Nord, University of Michigan
- Bruno Rosetto, DES - Brazil
- Robert Saito, Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica - Brazil
- Arun Sannuti, Caltech
- Jerry Schneider, NOAO
- William Schoenell, UFSC - Brazil
- Richard Shaw, NOAO
- Janos Szule, Eotvos University (Hungary)
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Supported by the National Science Foundation Member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance |
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