It is important to have installed beforehand in your laptops the VO-tools to be used in the School, namely:

• ALADIN (Download the Aladin4Asterics.jar file and execute it from a terminal using “java -Xmx2048m -jar Aladin4Asterics.jar”)
• TOPCAT (Download the topcat-full.jar file and execute it from a terminal using “java -jar topcat-full.jar”)
• VOSA (Web server. You don't need to install anything)
• STILTS (Download the stilts.jar file and execute it from a terminal using “java -jar stilts.jar”)

Day 1. Tuesday 15 November

• 09:00 Registration

• 09:30 - 10:15 Introductory talks
  • 09:30 - 09:35 - Welcome (Ada Nebot)
  • 09:35 - 09:50 - The ASTERICS project (Rob van der Meer)
  • 09:50 - 10:15 - Introduction to the VO and the school (Ada Nebot)

• 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break

• 10:45 - 12:30 Tutorial #1 (1h45m).
  • Title: The CDS tutorial
  • VO-tools: Simbad, Vizier, Aladin
  • Tutor: S. Derriere + J. Sorce (group 1) / C. Bot + F.-X. Pineau (group 2)

• 12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

• 14:00 - 15:45 Tutorial #2 (1h45m)
  • Title: Discovery of Brown Dwarfs mining the 2MASS and SDSS databases
  • See also: stilts.script
  • VO-tools: Aladin, Topcat
  • Tutor: F. Jiménez + M. Molinaro (group 1) / E. Solano + M. Ramella (group 2)

• 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break

• 16:15 - 18:00 Tutorial #3 (1h45m)
  • Title: Determination of stellar physical parameters using VOSA
  • See also: vosa_usecase_final.txtvosa_usecase_paper_final.txt
  • VO-tools: VOSA
  • Tutor: F. Jiménez-Esteban + M. Molinaro (group 1) / E. Solano + M. Ramella (group 2)

Day 2. Wednesday 16 November

• 09:00 - 10:45 Tutorial #4 (group 1) / Tutorial #5 (group 2) (1h45m)
  • Tutorial #4
    • Title: Multi-instrument, multi-wavelength study of high energy sources with the virtual Observatory.
    • VO-tools: Aladin, Topcat, Simbad
    • Tutor: A. Nebot + V. Kulikovskiy + D. Baines (group 1) /
  • Tutorial #5
    • Title: Exploring Gaia data with TOPCAT and STILTS
    • See also: introductory slides, supporting materials
    • VO-tools: TOPCAT, STILTS
    • Tutor: M. Taylor + F-X Pineau (group 2)

• 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

• 11:15 - 13:00 Tutorial #5 (group 1) / Tutorial #4 (group 2)
  • Tutorial #5
    • Tutor: M. Taylor + F-X Pineau (group 1)
  • Tutorial #4
    • Tutor: J. Lefaucheur + C. Bot + J Sorce (group 2)

• 13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH

• 14:30 - 15:45 Tutorial #6 (group 1) / Tutorial #6 (group 2) (2h)
  • Title: Accessing and cross matching of big data sets with ADQL http://docs.g-vo.org/adql/html/
  • VO-tools: Topcat, ADQL, TAP
  • Tutor: M. Demleitner + G. Mantelet (group 1) / H. Heinl + M. Taylor (group 2)

• 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break

• 16:15 - 17:00 Tutorial #6 (group 1) / Tutorial #6 (group 2) (cont.)

• 17:00 - 17:30 Tutorial #7 (group 1 and 2)
  • Title: Handling gravitational-wave sky maps for EM-followUP observations
  • VO-tools: Aladin beta version + Topcat
  • Tutor: E. Chassande-Motin + D. Baines (group 1) /G. Greco + A. Nebot (group 2)

• 17:30 - 18:15 Treasure hunt

• 18:15 - 18:30 Organization of participants projects

• 20:00 - Social school dinner at Restaurant Au Pont Saint Martin (see map), rue des Moulins.

Day 3. Thursday 17 November

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• 09:00 - 10:45 Participants projects (tutor-student assignment)

• 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

• 11:15 - 13:00 Participants projects

• 13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH

• 14:30 - 15:45 Projects presentations

• 15:45 - 16:15 Feedback and closing