First Astro-CC Pilot training event

Europe/Paris
Enrique Solano (INTA)
Description

The first Training Event of the Astronomy Competence Centre Pilot project (Astro-CC Pilot) will take place at Centro de Astrobiología (Madrid, Spain) from Tuesday 2 to Thursday 4 December 2025. The goal of the Astro-CC project is to enable members of the astronomy, heliospheric physics, planetary science, and astro-particle physics communities to accelerate the use of Open Science by supporting the implementation of FAIR principles.

The Virtual Observatory (VO) is opening up new ways of exploiting the huge amount of data provided by the ever-growing number of ground-based and space facilities, as well as by computer simulations. The goal of this Training Event is twofold:

  • Expose participants to the variety of VO tools and services available today so that they can use them efficiently for their own research.
  • Gather requirements and feedback from participants.

 

To achieve these goals, VO experts will lecture and tutor the participants on the usage of VO tools and services. Real life examples of scientific applications will be given. A large fraction of the time will be dedicated to hands-on exercises, which will allow participants to become fully familiar with the VO capabilities on their own laptops.

 

The admission procedure will be as follows: first, those interested must apply to participate in the school using the "Registration" link. Applications can be submitted until 14 October. For PhD students, a letter of recommendation from their supervisor, explaining why the school is of interest to them and how it can help in their research, will be required. If registered as postdocs, they should provide a couple of articles in peer-reviewed journals where they appear as co-authors, or alternatively, a link to their thesis.

Afterwards, the organizing committee will evaluate the proposals received, and will inform applicants by late October. The organization will cover the main travel costs (within Europe) and accommodation expenses for the accepted participants.

The school will take place exclusively on-site and will be limited to 40 people.

 

 

 

The Astro-CC project is funded by an OSCARS cascading grant. The event is also supported by grant PID2023-146210NB-I00, funded by MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF/EU. We also acknowledge scientific support from ISDEFE, S.A., S.M.E., M.P.


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Registration
    • 09:15 09:30
      Reception of participants 15m
    • 09:30 09:50
      Introduction on the Astro-CC Pilot project 20m
      Orateur: Mark Allen (CDS Strasbourg)
    • 09:50 10:10
      Introduction on the VO and the Training Event 20m
      Orateur: Enrique Solano (INTA)
    • 10:10 11:10
      Tutorial #1: CDS tutorial. 1h

      Main tutor: Anais Gonneau
      Backup tutors: Mark Allen, Ivan Brossard, Hendrik Heinl

      A link will be provided here for a juptyer notebook that will run in jupyter lite (in a browser, preferably Firefox)

    • 11:10 11:30
      Coffee-break 20m
    • 11:30 12:30
      Tutorial #1 (cont) 1h
    • 12:30 13:30
      Tutorial #2: VOSA 1h

      Main tutor: Patricia Cruz
      Backup tutor: Francisco Jiménez, Enrique Solano

    • 13:30 14:45
      Lunch 1h 15m
    • 14:45 15:45
      Tutorial #2 (cont) 1h
    • 15:45 16:30
      Questions on Tutorials #1 and #2. Participants' use cases 45m
    • 16:30 17:00
      Coffee-break 30m
    • 17:00 17:30
      Questions on Tutorials #1 and #2 (cont.). Participants' use cases 30m
    • 17:30 17:45
      Bus departure 15m
    • 09:15 09:30
      Reception of participants 15m
    • 09:30 11:30
      Tutorial #3: TOPCAT 2h

      Main tutor: Mark Taylor
      Backup tutor: Hendrik Heinl

    • 11:30 12:00
      Coffee-break 30m
    • 12:00 13:30
      Tutorial #4: ADQL 1h 30m

      Main tutor: Hendrik Heinl
      Backup tutor: Mark Taylor.

    • 13:30 14:45
      Lunch 1h 15m
    • 14:45 15:15
      Tutorial #4 (cont) 30m
    • 15:15 16:30
      Questions on Tutorials #3 and #4. Participants' use cases 1h 15m
    • 16:30 17:00
      Coffee-break 30m
    • 17:00 17:30
      Talk: "Real examples of science enabled by the VO". Enrique Solano 30m
    • 17:30 19:00
      Reception / Cocktail 1h 30m
    • 19:00 19:15
      Bus departure 15m
    • 09:15 09:30
      Reception of participants 15m
    • 09:30 11:30
      Tutorial #5: MOCPy by VO. EOSC EU Node Demo 2h
    • 11:30 12:00
      Coffee-break 30m
    • 12:00 13:30
      Project presentation 1h 30m
    • 13:30 14:45
      Lunch 1h 15m
    • 14:45 15:15
      Feedback 30m
    • 15:15 15:30
      Wrap-up 15m
    • 15:30 15:45
      Bus departure 15m