Prof. Alex Szalay from JHU will give us a lecture on next Thursday (June 17) morning at 10:00AM.

       Alex initiated "Virtual Observatory" about a dozen of years ago, and leads the NVO project (http://www.us-vo.org/behindthescenes/who.cfm). I call him Father of Virtual Observatory. The collaboration and friendship between him and Dr.

Jim Gray has become a legend in the community. Live webcast will be available for the lecture so that VO fans outside of

NAOC can share it with us. 

Lecture information:

          Title:   HPC for Optical Astronomy: Astronomy with Petabytes of Data

          Speaker:   Prof. Alexander S. Szalay (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

          Date:   June 17, 2010              Time:   10:00AM

           Two years after the publish of “The National Virtual Observatory: Tools and Techniques for Astronomical Research”
(http://blogs.us-vo.org/news/?p=3), its Chinese version is published by China Science & Technology Press. More
information is available at:   http://www.china-vo.org/NVObook/

        The May 2010 issue of the IVOA Newsletter is now available at http://ivoa.net/newsletter/. This biannual newsletter for astronomers is intended to highlight new capabilities of VO tools and technologies for doing astronomy research. It also lists recent papers, and upcoming events. Comments and feedback are encouraged; you may contact the editors at ivoa-news-editors@ivoa.net.

你是否因硬盘损坏、数据丢失而延误工作，破坏心情？
 
你是否总是担心自己数十个上百GB的照片和录像的安全？
如何保护好重要的资料不丢失、不损坏？
如何保证想要的信息随时可用？
 
如果你想对解决上面的问题有一个好的想法和解决方案，欢迎您参加我们为你准备的天文信息技术培训系列，我们将为你提供专业的指导和建议。
 
培训系列第一期主题： 信息存储与处理
 
培训时间：3月17日至5月5日，每周三下午2点
培训地点：国家天文台B224室
 
 详情请访问：
 

         From Nov. 26 to 28, 2009, China-VO 2009 was held successfully in Chongqing, the largest city in South-West China. Nearly 60 representatives from about 20 institutes, universities and companies attended the workshop.
         The theme of the China-VO 2009 is “New round of VO”. Both the China-VOand world wide VO projects are stepping into a new phase. On the workshop, blueprint and developing strategies for the China-VO was discussed broadly and refined. A basic consensus is that VO should serve its users, including astronomers, educators, and the public.
         In 2009, the most important accomplishment of the China-VO is enhancement of its infrastructure, including joining in of new staffs, constructing new database center, and collecting new data from LAMOST and CSTAR Antarctic observatory. A new funding was granted to the China-VO recently from the NSFC to put forward LAMOST scientific database system into operation by the end of the year.

Just learned from the website of Copyright Protection Center of China, three VO applications developed by the China-VO have passed the “computer software registration” auditing. 

From Nov. 26 to 28, 2009, China-VO 2009, the annual workshop of the China-VO was held at Chongqing University, Chongqing. Nearly 60 representatives from about 20 institutes, universities and companies attended the workshop.
 
The theme of the China-VO 2009 is “New round of VO”. Both the China-VO and world wide VO projects are stepping into a new phase. In 2009, the most important accomplishment of the China-VO is enhancement of its infrastructure, including joining in of new staffs, constructing new database center, and collecting new data from LAMOST and CSTAR projects. Blueprint and future strategies of the China-VO is discussed broadly and deeply.
 
A basic consensus is that the development of the China-VO should be based on wide collaboration. A core team at NAOC mainly focuses on facility class infrastructures, cutting-edge researches are mainly conducted by partners at universities and other institutes.