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National Virtual ObservatorySummer School:

Welcome

Tom McGlynnNASA/GSFC

THE US NATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY

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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

Archival Research

Survey astronomy

Temporal astronomy

Moore’s L

aw

Digital detectors

The Internet

Data S

tandards

NGC3104

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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. Moore’s 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 ObservatoryAllsman, Roberta: NOAO / LSST ProjectBochanski, John: U. of WashingtonBogosavljevic, Milan: CaltechBrewer, Jeremy: University of PittsburghButterworth, Paul: NASA/GSFCCargile, Phillip: Vanderbilt UniversityChan, (Ben) Hiu Pan: Caltech - IPAC

(NED)Cortes, Paulo: University of IllinoisDesert, Jean-Michel: IAPDeneva, Julia: Cornell UniversityDrake, Andrew: Princeton/CaltechFhima, Avi: Gemini ObservatoryGarcia, Jorge: Gemini ObservatoryGasson, David: NOAOGee, Perry: University of California/DavisHanley, Christopher: STScIHuber, Mark: LLNLKennefick, Julia: University of Arkansas

Kent, Brian: Cornell UniversityKoposov, Sergey: Sternberg Astron.

Inst.Lindroos, Johan: CSC-SC, SAMPO / ESOLoh, Yeong: University of ColoradoMahabal, Ashish: Caltech Manzato, Patrizia: INAFMuench, August: CfAPrema, Paresh: University of CambridgePrice, Aaron: AAVSOPuerari, Ivanio: INAOESeaman, Robert: NOAOShaw, Laurie: University of CambridgeStrickler, Rachel: SF State UniversityTucker, Douglas: FermilabValdes, Francisco: NOAOVivas, Kathy: CIDAWadadekar, Yogesh: STScIWay, Michael: NASA/AmesWhitmore, 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/SummerSchool2

– 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/NVOSummerSchool2Sched

• 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/StudentProjects2 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