PROGRAMME COURSE VIRTUAL OBSERVATORIES, FALL 2008           

Duration: 7 weeks, starts 25 sep 2008 and ends TBD

Format:   week 39-41: 5 lectures and 3 werkcolleges                            10h + 6h

          week 42   : 1 week workshop at Lorentz Center, Leiden  4*( 4h + 2h)= 16h + 8h

          week 43-45: 3 lectures and 1 werkcollege                              6h + 2h


Note some changes in times/dates



                                                                       TOTAL   32h + 16h

                                                                      

Lectures on Mondays 09:15 - 11:00h and/or Thursdays 09:15 - 11:00

Werkcollege on Tuesdays 11:15 - 13:00



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1 WEEK 38

Thu 18sep   Valentijn          Information Systems and Virtual Observatories

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2 WEEK 39

Mon 22sep    Verdoes Kleijn/Deul     Photometry, Astrometry & Virtual Observatories

Tue 23sep    Verdoes Kleijn/Deul     werkcollege Photometry, Astrometry & Virtual Observatories

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3 WEEK 40

Mon 29sep    Peletier          Scientific use of Astronomical Databases        

Mon 29sep 11:15    Peletier   werkcollege on Scientific use of Astronomical Databases

Thu 02oct    Belikov           Database basics

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4 WEEK 41

Mon 06oct    Belikov           International Virtual Observatories

Tue 07oct    Belikov       werkcollege VO standards, DAL, publishing

             Buddelmeijer

Tue 07oct  11:15   Valentijn      Information Systems in Europe: Astro-WISE

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5 WEEK 42: WORKSHOP LORENTZ CENTER LEIDEN  Worksop in Leiden for all students participating the course

Mon 13oct    various           Visualizing the universe: image analysis, shapelets, visualization, visual analytics

Tue 14oct    various            Streaming processing: GRID, streaming processing, e-VLBI, LOFAR GRID

Wed 15oct    various           Computing the universe I (Large scalable databases and Astronomy: SDSS, Monet DB, LOFAR, Astro-WISE)

Thu 16oct    various            Computing the universe II: computational science, simulations, Virgo - Millennium Database

Fri 17oct    various              VO: Euro-VO, AstroGRID

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6 WEEK 43

Mon 20 oct   Lemson            Theory in VO: simulating the Universe (VIRGO)

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7 week 44

Mon 27 oct                     GRID: concept and practical use

Tue 28 oct   Belikov/Verdoes   werkcollege: help students with their task (for task description see below)

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8 week 45

 Tue 04 nov   Valentijn         werkcollege: students present their report on their task

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