National Virtual Observatory (NVO) Summer School

09/03/2008 - 09:00
09/11/2008 - 00:00
Summer Institute for virtual observatory data collection, discovery, interpretation and use

The application deadline for the NVO Summer School is June 15, 2008.

From the Summer School website:

In this nine-day, hands-on program, participants will work with experienced National Virtual Observatory (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.

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
Event Location: 
USA: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Event Website(s): 
NVO Summer School Homepage
Event Website(s): 
Download Poster
Event Website(s): 
Online Application
Contact Email: 
summer-school@us-vo.org
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