The school is being organized with a very specific aim of exposing young researchers to the underlying physics and data analyis issues in large scale observational surveys and subsequent use in addressing outstanding problems in astronomy and astrophysics. The underlying aim is to prepare the students with the capability to exploit the huge astronomical database that the different surveys and astronomy missions (for example VLT, Gemini, Subaru, XMM-Newton, Chandra, Spitzer, Herschel, ALMA, Astro-H, JWST, Suzaku, eROSITA, DES, LSST, Euclid, LOFT, ATHENA, Kepler etc.) will create. The topics to be covered in the school lectures will include
- Surveys of the Local Universe (stars, interstellar medium, exoplanets)
- High Energy Surveys (neutron stars, black holes, supernovae)
- Cosmological Surveys (Large Scale Structure, Clusters, Galaxies, BAO)
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