Virtual Observatories and Theory

Workshops/Conferences

• ADASS-XI: has a special focus on VO this year, including discussions of the role of Simulations and Theory, including a "Birds of a Feather" (BoF) session.
• JENAM-2001 (Munich, Sept. 10-14, 2001 (Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting) with a Joint Discussion JD 2 ``Virtual Observatory''.
• Aspen workshop (May 27 - Jun 10, 2001) [New Astrophysics and Cosmology with a Virtual Observatory ] spent 2 days on aspects of adding theoretical data to VO.
• Tuscon workshop (Mar 20-21, 2001) [Virtual Observatories and large-scale simulations]
  • Request For more Virtual Discussion (peter's first email on mar 19)
  • Report of the first day
  • Some meeting pictures : dave , piet , patio discussion and dinner.
  • NVO powerpoint presentation (or a more direct link to Robert's actual presentation)
  • Piet's schematic overview grape-starlab-nvo: PS and gif.
  • Links we discussed:
    • virtualSKY.org and TerraServer
    • VOForum
    • starlab, GRAPE, NEMO and partiview
    • GC3
    • SRB
    • StarSplatter and Fiasco.

Some VO Links

• US National National Virtual Observatory
• IVOA ( International Virtual Observatory Alliance)
• Large Scientific Databases report (Sept 1999 conference in Annapolis)
• 1998 Caltech Interfaces to Scientific Data Archives workshop .
• NVO (NVO itself, somewhat outdated)
• Caltech meeting (a Caltech meeting, half a year ago)
• dposs (on George's web site)
• ADCCC's list of Virtual Observatory Activities
• ASTROVIRTEL
• Multi-archive data mining: Querator (ESO), MAST (STSCI), SkyView (NASA), Digital Sky VO Prototype
• AVO (the European version)
• datagrid
• NVO: VO Forum, NVO,
• AVO (the Australian version)
• NVO Science Definition Team (SDT)

Some examples of Data