SC4DEVO-3

28-29 July 2005
CSIRO CMIS Headquarters, Sydney, Australia

Introduction

This was the second astronomy-specific SC4DEVO workshop. Its main focus was on visualization and Virtual Observatory data exploration.

Original SC4DEVO-3 website

Agenda

Thursday, July 28

Session 1: Introduction

09.00-09.30: Tea/Coffee
09.30-10.30: SC4DEVO-3 Workshop Introduction (Bob Mann, Edinburgh)
10.30-11.30: Challenges and scientific requirements for visualization in the VO (Mark Allen, Strasbourg)
11.30-12:00: Tea/Coffee
12.00-13.00: Looking into the dark: A visualisation wish-list for the Virtual Observatory (Andrew Hopkins, Sydney)
13.00-14.00: Lunch

Session 2: Visualization in astronomy

14.00-15.00: RVS: Remote Visualization System (Malte Marquarding, ATNF)
15.00-16.00: Aladin: A Visualization Tool for the VO (Thomas Boch, Strasbourg)
16.00-16.30: Tea/Coffee
16.30-17.30: VisIVO, an open source, interoperable visualization tool for the VO (Claudio Gheller, CINECA)
17.30: Close

Friday, July 29

Session 3: VO infrastructure

09.30-10.30: The AstroGrid/Euro-VO infrastructure (John Taylor, Edinburgh)
10.30-11.30: Harnessing large numbers of processors from the Virtual Observatory (Garry Smith, Portsmouth)

Session 4: Visualization for data exploration

11.30-12.00: Tea/Coffee
12.00-13.00: Multi-variate Data Visualization (Richard Holbrey, Leeds)

Session 5: Discussion

13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-16.00: Discussion (Bob Mann, Edinburgh)
16.00-16.30: Tea/Coffee
16.30: Close