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THE US NATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY
Welcome to the National Virtual
Observatory Summer School
Tom McGlynn NASA/GSFC
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Outline

• Purpose of the NVO and Summer School
• How to get information
• Faculty and Staff
• Students
• Facilities and logistics
• Schedule
• Student exercises and projects
• Non-academic activities

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Threads of the the VO Fabric
Multiwavelength astrophysics
NGC3104
Archival Research
Moores Law
Digital detectors
The Internet
Data Standards
Survey astronomy
Temporal astronomy
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What is the Virtual Observatory

• All astronomy data and knowledge is available to
  all astronomers.
• Removing barriers to doing science
• Physical. Moores Law
• Semantic. NVO team and IVOA partners
• Cultural.

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International Virtual Observatory Alliance
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Purpose of the Summer School

• Encourage and enable science research using the
  Virtual Observatory
• Teach VO technologies
• Present research that uses the VO.
• Support student exercises and projects

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Faculty and Staff

• Tom McGlynn, NASA GSFC
• Dave De Young, NOAO
• Mike Fitzpatrick, NOAO
• Matthew Graham, Caltech
• Gretchen Greene, STScI
• Bob Hanisch, STScI
• Brian Kent, Cornell
• Simon Krughoff, University of Pittsburgh
• Shui Kwok, Keck Observatory
• Chris Miller, NOAO
• Ray Plante, NCSA, University of Illinois
• Doug Tody, NRAO
• Roy Williams, CalTech
• Sarah Emery Bunn, CalTech
• Sadie Lingham, JHU

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Students

• Jacob Albretsen, BYU
• Colin Aspin, Gemini Observatory
• Brian Brondel, Indiana University
• Douglas Burke, SAO
• Barbara Catinella, Arecibo Observatory
• Luca Cortese, Cardiff University
• Joseph DePasquale, CfA
• Walter dos Santos Jr., U.de Sao Paulo
• Iranderly Fernandes, Lab. Nac.de Astrofisica
• David Floyd, STScI
• Oliver Fraser, University of Washington
• Steven Gibson, Arecibo Observatory
• Norman Hill, CADC
• Lilit Hovhannisyan, Byurakan Observatory
• Amy Kimball, University of Washington
• Michael Koss, University of Maryland/GSFC
• Howard Lanning, NOAO
• Don Lindler, Sigma Space Corporation
• Kevin Lindsay, STScI

• Kelly McCusker, CfA
• Melinda Mello, NRAO
• August Muench, SAO
• Tara Murphy, University of Sydney
• Nathaniel Paust, STScI
• Paresh Prema, IOA, Cambridge
• Ivanio Puerari, INAOE
• Jordan Raddick, Johns Hopkins University
• Anthony Rogers, STScI
• David Rosario, UVa/UC-SC/Lick
• Rafael Santos, INPE, Brazil
• Rita Sinha, IUCAA, India
• Petr Skoda, Astron. Inst., Czech Republic
• Brad Spitzbart, SAO
• Christopher Springob, NRL
• Takayuki Tamura, ISAS/JAXA
• Katherine Vieira Rosa, Yale University
• Richard Wagner, UC-San Diego

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How to get and give information

• Summer School Web Site
• http//us-vo.org/
• Permanent record of summer school
• Summer School Twiki
• http//chart.stsci.edu/twiki/bin/viewauth/Main/Sum
  merSchool2006
• This is active site. You can modify it.
• Twiki demo.
• Faculty and staff
• Feedback sessions

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Logistics

• Internet and electrical connectivity
• Meals
• Transport
• Who to see if there are problems

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Schedule

• See http//chart.stsci.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/NVO
  SummerSchool3Sched
• Introduction to key underlying technologies
• SQL, XML, Web Services, Languages, Grid
• First two days
• Virtual Observatory services and protocols
• Registries, Cone search, SIA, SkyNode, ...
• A dozen student exercises to use various elements
  of the VO.
• Three days
• Student-led VO Projects
• Use VO technologies for research or publication
  of data, develop new protocols, ...
• 2 ½ days
• Presentations at end of summer school.

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Projects

• Scope
• Do research using the VO
• Build a new VO service or client
• Develop new VO protocol
• Organization
• Self chosen, student-led teams
• All students strongly encouraged to participate
• Use the Twiki!
• Presentations and prizes

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Social

• Social calendar
• Families?
• Sunday activities
• School dinner
• Monday evening Rustique Bistro
• Meals in Aspen
• Evening get-togethers