The Virtual Observatory (VO) is opening up new ways of exploiting the huge amount of data provided by the ever-growing number of ground-based and space facilities, as well as by computer simulations. At Stockholm University department of astronomy, we plan a tutorial school for PhD students and researchers aiming at providing an extensive training on the utility of VO tools for researchers in all fields of astronomy and cosmology. The goals is to expose the attendants to the variety of VO tools and services available today so that they can use them efficiently for their own research. The tutorials will be held by Evanthia Hatziminaoglou and Paolo Padovani from ESO and Mark Allen from University of Strasbourg.

The Swedish VO days will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday 8-9 of June 2010, and you are all hereby invited to participate. We urge you to apply as soon as possible, as we can only accommodate 20 external participants. Priority will be given to PhD students and young PostDocs, though nobody is a-priori excluded. There is a limited possibility for financial support depending on availability of funds. Apply to attend the school by sending an email to Kambiz Fathi (kambiz AT astro.su.se)

The registration deadline is one week prior to the event