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Paolo Padovani
European Southern Observatory
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2
D-85748 Garching bei München
Germany
 
Telephone: +49-89-32006478
Fax: +49-89-32006898
E-mail: ppadovan@eso.org
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I am Head of the VO Project Office in the Data Management & Operations Division and a EURO-VO
Facility Centre Scientist working at the European Southern Observatory. I was previously the Astrophysical Virtual Observatory Science Manager.
 
The Virtual Observatory (VO) is an international astronomical community-based initiative. It will allow global electronic access to the available astronomical data archives of space and ground-based observatories and sky surveys. It will also enable data analysis techniques through a coordinating entity that will provide common standards, wide-network bandwidth, and state-of-the-art analysis tools. The Virtual Observatory initiative is currently aiming at a global collaboration of the astronomical communities in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia under the auspices of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
 
My job is to provide scientific input to the EURO-VO Facility Centre (VOFC), an organisation which provides the EURO-VO with: 1. a centralised registry for resources, standards and certification mechanisms; 2. community support for VO technology take-up and dissemination; 3. scientific program support using VO technologies and resources. The VOFC manages also the EURO-VO Science Advisory Committee, which gives scientific guidance to the EURO-VO project.  
 
Some interesting information and documentation:
 
  1. • The first ever VO-based refereed scientific paper (PDF file) and related press release; this came out of our AVO 2004 demonstration.
  2. • Try out the AVO protoype and see how VO tools can help you do your science; you can use a step-by-step tutorial I wrote for an archive school to get familiar with its features.
  3. • VO-related invited talks and papers:
  4. ★ An invited talk (powerpoint presentation) and corresponding paper (pdf file) I gave at the IAU Symposium 224 "The A-Star Puzzle" on A-stars and the Virtual Observatory;
  5. ★ An invited paper (pdf file) I gave at the Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XIV on Science with VO tools;
  6. ★ An invited paper (pdf file) I gave at the Vulcano 2005 Workshop on High-energy Astrophysics and the Virtual Observatory.
 
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