CoSADIE Virtual Observatory School - 1st Announcement, 5-7 February 2013, Madrid, Spain

CoSADIE Virtual Observatory School - 1st Announcement, 5-7 February 2013, Madrid, Spain

The CoSADIE project is organising an international VO School at Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain.

Deadline for registration: December 21, 2012

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, as well as by computer simulations. The goals of the School 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 on their own laptops.

Tools providing the following functionalities will be presented:
Data discovery
Catalogue and table handling
Image and spectra handling
Cross-correlations

In order to ensure the right level of interaction, participation will be restricted to a limited number of participants (35). Preference will be given to PhD students and post-docs.

Deadline for registration is December 21, 2012.

Some travel support is available for this workshop.

For more details, visit the workshop's web page:
http://www.laeff.cab.inta-csic.es/projects/cosadie/main