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THE US NATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY
National Virtual Observatory Summer
School Welcome
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
• NVO small grants program (Hanisch)
• 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
US National Virtual Observatory team currently in
4th year of five year NSF grant.
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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 Introductions

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

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Student Introductions

• Albretsen, Jacob Brigham Young
• Allen, Steve UCO/Lick Observatory
• Allsman, Roberta NOAO / LSST Project
• Bochanski, John U. of Washington
• Bogosavljevic, Milan Caltech
• Brewer, Jeremy University of Pittsburgh
• Butterworth, Paul NASA/GSFC
• Cargile, Phillip Vanderbilt University
• Chan, (Ben) Hiu Pan Caltech - IPAC (NED)
• Cortes, Paulo University of Illinois
• Desert, Jean-Michel IAP
• Deneva, Julia Cornell University
• Drake, Andrew Princeton/Caltech
• Fhima, Avi Gemini Observatory
• Garcia, Jorge Gemini Observatory
• Gasson, David NOAO
• Gee, Perry University of California/Davis
• Hanley, Christopher STScI
• Huber, Mark LLNL

• Kent, Brian Cornell University
• Koposov, Sergey Sternberg Astron. Inst.
• Lindroos, Johan CSC-SC, SAMPO / ESO
• Loh, Yeong University of Colorado
• Mahabal, Ashish Caltech
• Manzato, Patrizia INAF
• Muench, August CfA
• Prema, Paresh University of Cambridge
• Price, Aaron AAVSO
• Puerari, Ivanio INAOE
• Seaman, Robert NOAO
• Shaw, Laurie University of Cambridge
• Strickler, Rachel SF State University
• Tucker, Douglas Fermilab
• Valdes, Francisco NOAO
• Vivas, Kathy CIDA
• Wadadekar, Yogesh STScI
• Way, Michael NASA/Ames
• Whitmore, Brad STScI

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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/view/Main/SummerS
  chool2
• 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
• Dinner Reservations
• Transport
• Who to see if there are problems

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Schedule

• See http//chart.stsci.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/NVO
  SummerSchool2Sched
• Three phases
• Preschool technologies used in VO
• College how to use the VO
• Graduate School student projects

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Preschool (Wednesday-Thursday)

• Introductions
• Software setup
• Basic XML and SQL
• More advanced protocols SOAP, security, the
  Grid.
• Languages VO is language independent

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College (Friday-Monday)

• Overviews of VO applications and protocols.
• Building basic VO clients Querying and
  correlating tables in the VO.
• Building VO Services
• Building more complex VO clients or services.
• VO registries
• Science talks
• Student exercises

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Graduate School Tuesday-Thursday

• Student projects
• Student Presentations
• Science talks
• Awards and closing

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Science Talks
Where the VO has been and is being used for in
current astronomical research.
Galaxies and clusters (theme) Correlations of
large catalogs Object classification Grid
analysis of large datasets Data quality in the VO
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Projects

• Scope
• Do research using the VO
• Build a new VO service or client
• Develop new VO protocol
• See http//chart.stsci.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/Stu
  dentProjects2 for ideas
• Organization
• Self chosen, student-led teams
• All students strongly encouraged to participate
• Use the Twiki!
• Presentations and prizes
• NVO Grants Program (Hanisch)

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Social

• Social calendar
• Family
• Sunday activities
• School dinner
• Meals in Aspen
• Evening get-togethers