Go-Lab at ICT 2013 in Vilnius, Lithuania!

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The Go-Lab project was represented with a special stand at the ICT 2013 exhibition. This event was organized by the European Commission in partnership with the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the EU. During this exhibition the Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA) and the Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA) presented the Go-Lab project and demonstrated several online labs.

More than five thousand ICT professionals were registered for the conference and exhibition and had the opportunity to visit the stand and to see the demos of the HYPATIA analysis tool and the Faulkes Telescopes online lab. Also, everyone could be a part of the hands-on activity with the Crashing Galaxies virtual lab as well. Analysis astronomical data using SalsaJ online lab was demonstrated. Further, sample activities of deploying online labs using Go-Lab Inquiry Learning Spaces were shown to the visitors.

A Highlight of the event was a live connection with the control center of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, during which the visitors could talk to scientists from CERN and ask them questions about the experiments and their progress.