AstroGrid/ Liverpool John Moores Science Workshop

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AstroGrid and the Liverpool John Moores University are holding a two day workshop to introduce the Liverpool astronomy research communities to the potential of emerging Virtual Observatory capabilities in supporting scientific research.

Agenda

Workshop Location

The workshop will take place in the LJMU.

Workshop dinner

Science Projects

We will divide into 3 groups to work on projects based on science goals. These should be specific problems which can be tackled using AstroGrid. The idea is that each group will decide on a science problem that they would like to work on, and they will be assisted by AstroGrid scientists and developers during the first day afternoon and second day morning. The afternoon sessions of the last day will then give each workgroup a chance to demonstrate what they have achieved!

• Group A - Extragalactic

• Group B - Star formation

• Group C - Stellar

Pre-Workshop checklist

Astrogrid requires the Java Runtime Environment to be installed on your computer (version 5.0). If you do not have it already, please download it here and install it.

AstroGrid software will work with Linux, Windows XP or Mac OSX.

To access AstroGrid services we will use the Workbench. It would be useful to check that you can run it on your computer. Go to the Workbench page, and either click on the 'Launch' link (this installs and launches Workbench with one click using Java Webstart - answer Yes or Install at security warnings) or install the standalone version (click on installer.jar and follow the instructions).

We'll be giving all attendees an astrogrid user account - details via email. Also, we'll be setting up a wiki username account for all attendees before the meeting, please use http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration to set your password.

Links to Helper Applications

Helper applications are launched using Java Webstart (which is part of Java). Click on the links below to launch the applications - answer yes at security warnings.

• Topcat
• Aladin

Astrogrid Help Pages

Help pages for using AstroGrid are at http://www2.astrogrid.org/science. Please use these pages rather than help links built into the Workbench.

Quick links to main help docs:

• AstroScope
• HelioScope
• Redshift Maker
• Colour cutter
• Solar Movie Maker

Tutorial Worksheets

• Data access worksheet
• [[]http://www2.astrogrid.org/science/solar-system[Solar and STP worksheet]]

Glossary:

A few buzzwords you might hear during the workshop ...

• VOQL: Virtual Observatory Query Language
• VOTable: a tabular data exchange standard
• DAL: Data Access Layer
• SIA: Simple Image Access
• SSA: Simple Spectral Access
• UCD: Uniform Content Descriptor

Find lots more at http://www.ivoa.net !

Attendance

-- EduardoGonzalez - 25 Oct 2006