Summary of activities Sep 2015 - Nov 2015

WP1 - Management

  • Joint GENIUS-CU9 plenary meeting #2, 21-23 September 2015

WP2 - User community

  • YY attend GENIUS-CU9 plenary meeting #2. Also Validation and publication sprinter meeting.
  • Publication of Gaia data from Japanese institute is proposed and I/F documents is provided from XL. YY will contact to NAOJ data center people.
  • RN (Ryoichi Nishi) also attend GENIUS-CU9 plenary, Validation and publication meeting.
  • RN start to edit Japanese page of Gaia wikipedia description.
  • Arkadiusz Hypki (HYP) took part in the 37th Polish Astronomical Society Assembly in Poznan, Poland, 7-10 September 2015. He had a number of conversations with European astronomers about their needs for the Gaia archive and verified the usefulness of the already proposed set of tools for comparing numerical models with the Gaia archive (deliverable T2.3). HYP presented a poster about the GENIUS deliverables.
  • HYP took part in the CU9 plenary meeting in Barcelona, 21-23 September 2015. He verified with other CU9 members the technical feasibility of the proposed advanced requirements specified in the deliverable T2.3
  • HYP started to implement the tools needed for comparing complex models with the Gaia archive. The tools will run within Docker containers on the GAVIP platform and will use Apache Hadoop based solutions (likely Apache Spark) for comparing Milky Way example model with the data obtained from GACS
  • Costigan took part in the GENIUS-CU9 plenary meeting and reported on several topics (see previous trimester report).
  • Costigan continued to prepare for the Beta testing which will kick off at DPAC consortium meeting in November.
  • Costigan will attend DPAC consortium in November in Leiden.
  • Costigan took part in GAVIP preliminary deisgn review telecon (15th of Sept).
  • YY attends mid term review. https://gaia.am.ub.es/Twiki/bin/view/GENIUS/MidTermReviewMeeting2015

WP3 - System design

T3.1 Technical Coordination

  • Hambly, Voutsinas, Morris and Molinaro attended the GENIUS-CU9 plenary meeting #2 in Barcelona. Hambly organised and chaired the System Architecture splinter at this meeting, which was attended also by ESAC-SAT representative Jaun-Carlos Segovia as well as other interested parties from DPAC CU9. Minutes are available on the DPAC CU9 Wiki
  • Hambly prepared the WP3 contribution to the second year report

T3.2 Aspects of archive interface design

T3.3 VO infrastructure

T3.4 Data Centre collaboration

T3.5 Data mining environments

WP4 - Data Exploitation

T4.2 - Visualization

T4.3 - Data Mining

T4.4 - VO tools and services

  • Final version of the new VOSA web interface
  • E. Solano: attendance to the Genius-CU9 plenary meeting

WP5 - Validation

T5.1 - Technical coordination

T5.2 - Definition of problem cases, validation scenarios and tools

T5.3 - Simulation versus reality: from models to observables

T5.4 - Confronting Gaia to external archives

YY presents Nano-JASMINE / Gaia validation.

T5.5 - Data demining: outlier analysis

T5.6 - Transversal tools for special objects

WP6 - Support

T6.2-Simulated Catalogue

T6.3-Science Alerts testbed

WP7 - Dissemination

T7.1 - Coordination of dissemination activities

T7.2 - Community portal infrastructure

After releasing Gaiaverse website and Twitter profile in July, 8th, main activities done are the following:

  • Portal's presentation at the CU9 plenary meeting hosted by the University of Barcelona on September 21-23.
  • Contacts with Greek and Portuguese Gaia members to have Gaiaverse available in these languages.
  • 68 resources, 4 tools, 51 news and 7 blog posts published until October, 22nd.
  • Twitter summary for September 2015: tweets (11), tweet impressions (6,360), profile visits (669), mentions (2), new followers (42), total number of followers on September, 30 (117).

T7.3 - Community portal, outreach and academic activities

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Topic revision: r10 - 2015-11-20 - YoshiyukiYamada
 
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