THE UKIRT INFRARED DEEP SKY SURVEY : THE UNIVERSE FROM PARSECS TO
GIGAPARSECS

UKIDSS is a suite of IR surveys being carried out using the UKIRT Wide
Field Camera, starting in 2005 and expected to complete around
2011. Three wide area surveys cover the Galactic Plane and the high
latitude sky to K=18.5, totalling seven thousand square degrees, with
smaller deeper surveys reaching to K=23. These surveys are making an
impact on studies of high-z quasars, very cool brown dwarfs, galaxy
clustering, high redshift galaxy formation, and many other areas.
Data are immediately public to European astronomers and world-public
eighteen months later. Data are made available through a queryable
database system similar to that used by SDSS, but are also now
available through VO tools in conjunction with many other resources. I
will summarise the status of UKIDSS, show some science highlights, and
give a live demo of data access and VO tools.