“Science in Cyberspace” Public Lecture

Professor S. George Djorgovski will present a free public lecture  “Science in Cyberspace” on Tuesday, December 13 at 8:00 p.m. in  Hameetman Auditorium (Cahill Building) at Caltech. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.

Abstract:

Science, scholarship, and education are being transformed by the advances in computation and information technology. Much of the scholarly work, including data, tools for their exploration and  theoretical modeling, literature, and collaboration tools, are now moving to virtual environments. The exponential growth of data  volumes, and the simultaneous increase in the data complexity offer both new scientific opportunities and new challenges for knowledge discovery in massive and complex data sets and data streams. We are
now developing new methodologies for scientific research in the 21st  century.

Bio:

S. George Djorgovski is a Professor of Astronomy at Caltech. He is the author or coauthor of several hundred scientific publications, including about 250 in refereed journals. He was one of the founders of the Virtual Observatory framework, and the emerging field of AstroInformatics. Professor Djorgovski’s scientific interests include observational cosmology, origins and evolution of galaxies and quasars, digital sky surveys, development of the methodology for a computationally enabled, data-intensive science for the 21st century, and many other topics.

This lecture is sponsored by the Keck Institute for Space Studies and will be videotaped. A Caltech map to the lecture location is available here.

Tools for Data-Intensive Astronomy – a VO Workshop in Los Angeles

Tools for Data-Intensive Astronomy
a VO Community Day in Los Angeles

Wednesday December 7, 2011
9:00AM – 12:00PM
Location: Hameetman Auditorium, Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology

The Virtual Observatory (VO) is realizing global electronic integration of astronomy data, tools, and services for use by individuals around the world. This new environment of interoperability will facilitate astronomy research with a speed, efficiency, and effectiveness not previously possible, and it will be available to all researchers, independent of their affiliation or access to observing facilities.

During this “VO Day”, aimed at research astronomers, VO experts from the Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) – one of many VO projects worldwide – will demonstrate new tools and services for data-intensive astronomy in the context of a range of science use cases and tutorials. These use cases and tutorials, based on recent results from the literature and on-going missions, will include:

• constructing and modeling spectral energy distributions
• cross-matching objects from diverse catalogs
• exploration of time series data
• image analysis tools.

This workshop is organized and sponsored by the US Virtual Astronomical Observatory. The workshop is open to anyone interested, and there is no registration fee. Registration, however, is required – Please visit the websites for registration and further information, including maps & directions.

VAODay@LA: http://www.usvao.org/voday@la