Where:

• IRA/IASF: Area di Ricerca ( room 214 Congress Center)
• OABo: Seminar Room, floor -1, OABo Via Ranzani,1

Contact:

• VO - DAY:
  • IRA/IASF : Mauro Nanni
  • OABo: Stefano Ettori, Angela Bragalia
    
    
• Supporto alla didattica
  • Massimo Ramella (INAF - OATs)
  • Stefano Ettori (INAF - OABo)

Programme:

• First Day IRA/IASF ( 14 Dec ):
  • 09:00 - 09:05: Introduction ( R. Smareglia ) (.pdf)
  • 09:05 - 09:20: The Virtual Observatory: an Overview ( R.Smareglia ) (.pdf)
  • 09:20 -09:45: A Virtual Tour of the Virtual Observatory ( P. Manzato ) (.pdf)
  • 09:45 - 11:30 Use Case 1: Confirmation of a Supernova candidate ( M.Ramella ) (.pdf)
  • 11:30 - 12:30 Use Case 2 : Searching for Data available for the bright galaxy M51 ( M. Molinaro ) (.pdf)
  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 - 15:00 Use Case 2 : (continue)
  • 15:00 - 17:00 Use Case 3: Photometric redshifts with DaME ( O.Laurino ) (.pdf)
    
    
• Second Day IRA/IASF( 15 Dec ):

• 09:30 - 11:30 Use Case 4: Extracting a Galaxy from a Cosmological simulation ( C.Gheller ) (.pdf)
• 11:20 - 12:30 Discussion and Feedback
  
  
  
  
• First Day OABo ( 16 Dec ):
  • 09:00 - 09:05: Introduction ( R. Smareglia ) (.pdf)
  • 09:05 - 09:20: The Virtual Observatory: an Overview ( R.Smareglia ) (.pdf)
  • 09:20 -09:45: A Virtual Tour of the Virtual Observatory ( P. Manzato ) (.pdf)
  • 09:45 - 11:30 Use Case 1: Confirmation of a Supernova candidate ( M.Ramella ) (.pdf)
  • 11:30 - 12:30 Use Case 2 : Searching for Data available for the bright galaxy M51 ( M. Molinaro ) (.pdf)
    • alternative case:
      Identify the nature of a cluster of X-ray sources near the Chamaeleon star-forming region.
      
  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 - 15:00 Use Case 2 : (continue)
  • 15:00 - 17:00 Use Case 3: Photometric redshifts with DaME ( O.Laurino ) (.pdf)
    
    
  • 17:00 - 19:00 Presentazione attivita' di supporto alla didattica. ( M. Ramella )
    
    
• Second Day OABo ( 17 Dec ):

• 09:00 - 11:00 Use Case 4: Extracting a Galaxy from a Cosmological simulation ( C.Gheller ) (.pdf)
• 11:00 - 12:00 Discussion and Feedback
  

Tutors:

Main Tutors:

• C. Gheller (CINECA)
• O. Laurino (INAF - OATs)
• M. Molinaro (INAF - OATs)
• M. Ramella (INAF - OATs)

Additional Tutors:

• P. Manzato (INAF - OATs)
• R. Smareglia (INAF - OATs)

Tools:

HERE, you can find all software and data needed to manage the Use Cases that will be presented.

Other tools you might want to have a look at (but they will not be used during the tutorials):

• VODesktop
• SPLAT-VO
• The US VO web services
• VOSED and VOSA, from the Spanish VO

For an exhaustive list of VO tools and services and their functionalities, have a look at the dedicated EURO-VO pages

For an additional list of VO Use Cases have a look at the dedicated EURO-VO Scientific Workflows page