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NVO Applications Summer School Program

All events take place at the Aspen Center for Physics.

Sunday 12 September

4:00-7:00pm Registration and Welcome Reception

Monday 13 September: “Magical Mystery Tour”

8:00am Registration, Coffee, Continental Breakfast
8:30am Introduction to Summer School and Overview of the Virtual Observatory (14 MB) Bob Hanisch
10:00am Break
10:15am Demonstrations of Current VO Tools and Technology. We will show two or three science-motivated demonstrations. Participants will be able to try things themselves as we go along.
Exploring VO Registries, Resources and Software with The NVO DataScope and other VO Tools Tom McGlynn
Rediscover the HR diagram. Bob Hanisch
VO Enabled Mirage Tamas Budavari, Tin Kam Ho
Obscured quasars (AVO demo). Ray Plante
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Demonstration of Current VO Tools and Technology, cont’d.
· Data analysis: Virtual Sky, Montage Mosaicker, Aladin, VOStatistics, SDSS Image Cutout, Spectrum Services
· Data cross-correlation, with introduction to SQL: OpenSkyQuery 		Roy Williams, Tamas Budavari, Matthew Graham
3:15pm Break
3:30pm Hands-on work with VO Tools
List of prepared scenarios for people to work with, annotated with instructions for use of tools.
Challenge students to think about projects
5:30pm Close

Tuesday 14 September: “A Hard Day’s Night”

8:00am Coffee, Continental Breakfast
8:30am VO Standards and Protocols – why use them?
· XML primer
· VOTable
· UCDs
· ConeSearch
 Roy Williams
10:00am Break
10:15am Introduction to Web Services Technology
· HTTP GET, Axis, Python, .NET, SOAP 		Matthew Graham
11:15am VO Standards and Protocols (cont’d)
· SIAP
· SSAP
· SQL Primer
· ADQL
· OpenSkyNode and OpenSkyQuery
 Doug Tody, Tamas Budavari
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Utilizing VO Standards and Protocols: Clients
How to use ConeSearch, OpenSkyQuery? and SIAP?
Maria Nieto, Gretchen Greene
3:15pm Break
3:30pm Utilizing VO Standards and Protocols: Server Side?
· How to construct ConeSearch, SIAP, SSAP, and OpenSkyNodes
· Build ConeSearch for Abell Catalog
Wil O’Mullane
5:30pm Close

Wednesday 15 September: “Strawberry Fields Forever”

8:00am Coffee, Continental Breakfast
8:30am Data and Resource Publication
· How to use it. Registering VO services, RM schema, using the registry
· Exercise in registering – register the service developed yesterday
· Build client to registry
 Ray Plante, Matthew Graham
10:15am Break
10:30am VO Client Applications
. Review of fundamentals
· Inside NVO Datascope
· Inside the Galaxy Morpology Demo
. Q&A 		Maria Nieto-Santisteban, Tom McGlynn, Ray Plante
12:30pm Close. Free afternoon.
7:00pm Summer School Dinner

Thursday 16 September: “With a Little Help From My Friends”

8:00am Coffee, Continental Breakfast
8:30am NVO and the Grid
NVO services from Python 		Roy Williams
10:00am Globular Clusters with NVO Peter Teuben
10:30am Break
10:45am Review Q&A. Form teams and select projects. Participants can select from a project list we provide or devise their own.
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Work Session – application development with assistance from faculty.
5:30pm Close

Possibility to work late – faculty remain till ~9pm

Friday 17 September: “Ticket to Ride”

8:00am Coffee, Continental Breakfast
8:30am Work Session
10:30am Break
10:45am Participant Demonstrations
12:30pm Lunch
1:15pm Feedback
1:30pm Closing Comments: On the Future of the Virtual Observatory Bob Hanisch
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