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News & Highlights
Second EuroVO-AIDA School
25-28 January, 2010.
The Virtual Observatory (VO) is opening up new ways of
exploiting the huge amount of data provided by
the ever-growing number of ground-based and space facilities.
The goals of the School, held at the
Observatoire de Strasbourg
are to expose European astronomers to the variety of VO tools and services
available today so that they can use them efficiently for their own research.
To achieve these goals, VO experts will lecture and
tutor the participants on the usage of such tools.
Real life examples of scientific applications will be given,
some of them selected from the science cases that
participants will be asked to submit at the time of
registration. A large fraction of the time will be dedicated
to hands-on exercises, which will allow participants to
become fully familiar with the VO capabilities.
Deadline for registration is November 20, 2009.
For more details, visit the workshop's web page.
Swiss VO day
The Geneva observatory in collaboration with the EURO-VO is organising
the Swiss VO day, to take place on January 21, 2010,
in Geneva. The workshop will host about 30 Swiss astronomers and
will follow the same format as the ESO and Spanish VO days,
namely short introductory talks and hands-on sessions.
VO day ... in Tour
The Euro VO-AIDA project, INAF-OATs in collaboration with INAF-SI (VObs.it) and
other INAF structures and Italian University, organize for the Italian community
in several INAF structures, a day and a half log workshops devote to the VO.
The aim is to expose astronomers to the variety of VO tools and services available
today with a particular care on Italian VO experiences and tools.
The "VO-day ... in Tour" officially starts in Trieste on November 30, with
several future dates already fixed. A preliminary page of this initiative
can be found at
http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/voday.
Second EuroVO-AIDA Research Initiative:
Within the framework of
AIDA
(Astronomical Infrastructure for Data Access),
the EURO-VO project is seeking proposals from teams
carrying out astronomical projects that may benefit from the Virtual Observatory concept.
The projects are to make use of the Virtual Observatory tools and applications, that
allow users to access a huge variety of reduced multiwavelength data and perform
high-level analysis of images, spectra and large tabular datasets. The successful
projects will receive support from EURO-VO astronomers to complete their goals.
Interested teams should send their applications no later than
July 15, 2009. More details can be obtained from the contact persons.
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