BRAVO 2007: Lectures on Virtual Observatory
INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, July 2007
Prof. S. George Djorgovski (Caltech)

This website = http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/bravo/

Roy Williams and George Djorgovski each gave a set of 4 lectures. Here are copies of the Djorgovski's ppt slides:

• Lecture 1: Astronomy in the era of information abundance, and the Virtual Observatory concept [33 MB pdf file]
• Lecture 2, part 1: Some examples of VO-enabled science [21 MB pdf file]
• Lecture 2, part 2: Ditto; exploration of observable parameter spaces [13 MB pdf file]
• Lecture 3: Exploration of the parameter spaces in the catalog domain; clustering, classification, and other data exploration tools [8 MB pdf file]
• Lecture 4: The big picture: information technology revolution, and science in the 21st century [14 MB pdf file]

Here are some useful links:

• U.S. National Virtual Observatory
• NVO Summer Schools
• International VO Alliance
• NVO Science Definition Team report
• The original NVO White Paper
• CACR e-Science meetings
• ... and some interesting readings
• NSF OCI reports
• "Virtual Observatory: From Concept to Implementation", Djorgovski & Williams (2005)
• "Virtual Astronomy, Information Technology, and the New Scientific Methodology", Djorgovski (2005)
• George's VO links
• Some statistics and data mining links - follow the link trails ...
• VOStat

Last changed: 02Aug07, SGD