VO Science in Prague: Scientific Programme
Thursday August 17, 14:00 through Tuesday August 22, 12:30
Small Theatre
Thursday August 17
Session I. Introductory Review
| 14:00 |
The Virtual Observatory : what it is and where it came from |
(Invited) A. Lawrence |
[ppt] |
Session II. AGN and galaxies
| 14:30 |
Large Surveys and the VO |
(Invited) K. Kuijken |
[ppt] |
| 15:00 |
A VO study of SDSS AGN with X-ray emission from ROSAT pointed observations |
R. Hanisch |
[ppt] |
| 15:15 |
The Hungarian VO |
L. Dobos |
[ppt] |
| 15:30 |
Coffee |
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| 16:00 |
A VO-based solution to the origin of soft X-ray emission in obscured AGN |
M. Guinazzi |
[ppt] |
| 16:15 |
Determination of radio spectra from catalogues and identification of GHz peaked sources using the VO |
B. Vollmer |
[ppt] |
| 16:45 |
Study on the environment around QSOs with redshift of 1.3 using the JVO system |
Y. Shirasaki |
[ppt] |
| 18:15 |
Invited Discourse, Congres Hall
The Magnetic Field and its Effects on the Solar Atmosphere as Observed at High Resolution |
Alan Title |
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Friday August 18
Session III. Large Facilities and Data Archives
| 09:30 |
Towards a VO compliant ESO Science Archive |
P. Padovani |
[ppt] |
| 09:45 |
SAI Catalogue Access Services |
S. Koposov |
[odp]
[pdf] |
| 10:15 |
An archive of Chandra observations of regions of star formation (ANCHORS) |
S. Wolk |
[ppt] |
| 10:30 |
Coffee |
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| 11:00 |
End-to-end science from major facilities: does the VO have a role ? |
(Invited) G. Gilmore |
[ppt] |
| 11:45 |
Prototype development for a Hubble Legacy Archive |
B. Whitmore |
[ppt] |
| 12:00 |
Demonstrations / Posters |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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Session IV. Stars and galaxies
| 14:00 |
New generation wide-fast-deep optical surveys: Petabytes from the sky |
(Invited) A. Tyson |
[ppt] |
| 14:30 |
Galaxy formation and evolution using multi-wavelength, multi-resolution imaging data in the Virtual Observatory |
P. Prema |
[ppt] |
| 14:45 |
NVO study of Super Star Clusters in nearby galaxies |
B. Whitmore |
[ppt] |
| 15:00 |
Science projects with the Armenian Virtual Observatory |
A. Mickaelian |
[ppt] |
| 15:15 |
Mapping Galactic Spiral Arm structure : the IPHAS survey and Virtual Observatory access |
N. Walton |
[ppt] |
| 15:30 |
Coffee |
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| 16:00 |
Large surveys and determination of interstellar extinction |
O. Malkov |
[ppt] |
| 16:15 |
Discovery and characterisation of Brown Dwarfs mining large-area surveys |
E. Solano |
[ppt] |
| 16:30 |
Criteria for spectral classification of cool stars using high resolution spectra |
D. Montes |
[ppt] |
| 16:45 |
Extracting parameters for stellar populations synthesis from SDSS galaxy spectra using evolution strategies |
J. Gomez |
[ppt] |
| 17:00 |
Virtual Observatory as a tool for stellar spectroscopy |
P. Skoda |
[odp]
[ppt] |
Monday August 21
Session V. VO Technology and Projects
| 09:00 |
Grid technology and multi-disciplinary science |
(Invited) I. Foster |
[ppt] |
| 09:30 |
Interconnecting the Virtual Observatory with computational grid infrastructures |
F. Pasian |
[pps] |
| 09:45 |
Subject Mediation approach for scientific problem solving in Virtual Observatories |
L. Kalinichenko |
[ppt] |
| 10:00 |
An ontology of astronomical object types for the VO |
S. Derriere |
[pdf] |
| 10:15 |
OWLviper - a semantics based analysis and query tool |
E. Shaya |
[ppt] |
| 10:30 |
Coffee |
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| 11:00 |
The Virtual Observatory Paradigm and National Projects |
(Invited) A. Kembhavi |
[ppt] |
| 11:30 |
Connecting the literature with on-line data |
G. Eichorn |
[ppt] |
| 11:45 |
Astrophysical Integrated Research Environment |
J. Zhou |
[ppt] |
| 12:00 |
The Astro-Wise system : a federated information accumulator for astronomy |
G. Verdoes Keijn |
[ppt] |
| 12:15 |
Demonstrations / Posters |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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Session VI. Large surveys
| 14:00 |
Wide Field optical surveys |
(Invited) N. Yasuda |
[ppt] |
| 14:45 |
Photometric identification of quasars and AGN from the Sloan survey |
N. Phillip |
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| 15:00 |
A multiwavelength study of a sample of Texas Radio Survey Steep Spectrum Sources |
R. Lucas |
[ppt]
[ppt] |
| 15:15 |
Near-IR properties of Spitzer selected sources |
E. Gonzales-Solares |
[ppt] |
| 15:30 |
Coffee |
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Session VII. Solar System science
| 16:00 |
Solar Physics with the Virtual Solar Observatory |
(Invited) F. Hill |
[ppt]
video |
| 16:30 |
Mexican Virtual Solar Observatory project |
A. Santillan |
[ppt]
[pdf] |
| 16:45 |
Solar Active Region emergence and flare productivity |
S. Dalla |
[ppt]
video |
| 17:00 |
Solar System Bodies : "Observations in the Past" with Plate Archive of Main Astronomical Observatory of Ukrainian NAS |
T. Sergeeva |
[ppt] |
| 17:15 |
Massive physical and dynamical characterisation of asteroids |
W. Thuillot |
[ppt] |
| 18:15 |
Invited Discourse, Congres Hall
Similar phenomena at different scales: black holes, Sun, supernovae, galaxies and galaxy clusters |
Shuang Nan Zhang |
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Tuesday August 22
Session VIII. VO Applications
| 09:00 |
Future directions of the VO |
(Invited) A. Szalay |
[ppt] |
| 09:30 |
Image processing and scientific workflows in the Virtual Observatory context |
E. Slezak |
[pps]
[ppt] |
| 09:45 |
Implementing astronomical image analysis pipelines using VO standards |
M. Louys |
[ppt] |
| 10:00 |
VOMegaPlot : efficient plotting of large VOTable datasets |
N. Urunkar |
[ppt] |
| 10:15 |
The MERLINImager - a customised radio interferometry image server provided by AstroGrid |
A. Richards |
[sxi] |
| 10:30 |
Coffee |
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| 11:00 |
Science Applications of the Montage image mosaic engine |
G. Berriman |
[ppt] |
| 11:15 |
VisiVO : an interoperable visualisation tool for VO data |
U. Becciani |
[ppt] |
| 11:30 |
"Re-tooling" Data Centre infrastructure to support the VO |
S. Gaudet |
[ppt] |
Session IX. Closing Review
| 11:30 |
Conference Summary |
(Invited) F. Genova |
[ppt] |
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