2008 NVO Summer School
3-11 September 2008
The Lodge at Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM
Downloadable Poster (11x17, PDF)
In this nine-day, hands-on program, participants will work with experienced NVO users and software specialists to become familiar with how to discover, access, visualize, and analyze data with the Virtual Observatory. Those attending will be introduced to VO tools and utilities by using them to accomplish a variety of research goals. Some of the research tasks that will be addressed include data mining, multiwavelength analysis, and temporal astronomy. In the latter part of the summer school, small teams will pursue their own VO-enabled projects.
Program, Location, & Logistics
Please see the NVOSS Twiki site for Program Information.
Lecture topics include:
- Using the VO to Study Clusters of Galaxies
- The Power of VOTables
- Introduction to XML
- A Universal View of Spectra
- VOEvent: Rapid Reporting for Transients
- Using IDL & IRAF with VO
- Finding Services in the VO Registry
- Google Mashups and Worldwide Telescope
- Databases and SQL
- Astronomy with Crossmateched Catalogs
- VO for Mobile Devices
- Web Services with Apache and CherryPy
- Join the VO: Publishing and Serving Data
Application
Application is now closed
Faculty and Organizing Committee
Roy Williams, Caltech
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
Questions?
Questions about the summer school should be directed to summer-school at us-vo.org.
Support
The NVO Summer School is made possible through the support of the National Science Foundation.