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8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.,
Thursday, April 24, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 4:00
p.m., Friday, April 25, 2008 |
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McKnight
Auditorium
Cone University Center
The
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
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On April 24 and 25, 2008, the Charlotte
Visualization Center (VisCenter) will host the
"Visualization in the World"
Symposium.
This will be an event of national importance
with leading visionaries in the field of
visualization.
This year’s symposium stretches well beyond the
focus of our seminal grand opening symposium,
mounted in May 2006, indicating how both the field
of visualization and the VisCenter have grown.
“Visualization in the World"
expresses the expanding ability of our
field to address visualization embedded in the
life, work, and culture of our times, either
through science, art, the humanities, business,
social life, or other means.
The symposium will address not only
visualization and its uses but also the
environment within which it is embedded; and how
the current or potential interactions across
domains in this milieu are of interest.
The symposium will be an event for presenting
and sharing ideas in such a way that the ideas are
accessible to a diverse, thoughtful (and
participating) audience. To make this occur, there
will be time for discussion, panels, and hands-on
demonstrations in addition to the invited
talks.
We will also stretch our bounds through art +
technology performances (dance, music) and
discussions on art and culture.
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Early Registration |
$ 99.00 |
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after April 7, 2008 |
$ 120.00 |
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UNC Charlotte
Registration
(UNCC ID# is
required) |
No Charge |
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George Robertson,
Principal Researcher and Manager of the
Information Visualization Group, Microsoft
Research, ACM Fellow, and a member of the CHI
Academy. He is a leading light in information
visualization and has made significant
contributions in machine learning, multimedia
message systems, hypertext systems, operating
systems, and programming languages.
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Felice Frankel, Senior
Research Fellow at Harvard University and Head
of the Envisioning Science Program, 2007 winner
of the international Lennart Nilsson Award for
Scientific Photography and previously a
Guggenheim Fellow. She wrote the books
Envisioning Science, The Design and
Craft of the Science Image, and On the
Surface of Things, Images of the Extraordinary
in Science (the latter with chemist George
Whitesides). |
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Alan
MacEachren,
Professor of Geography and Director of the
GeoVista Center, Penn State University, Fellow
of the American Congress on Surveying and
Mapping. He wrote the book, How Maps
Work. |
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Jeremy Wolfe,
Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard
Medical School, Fellow of AAAS, American
Psychological Association, and the American
Psychological Society. He is a leading expert in
visual perception, visual attention, and
binocular vision. |
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Yehuda Kalay, Professor
of Architecture, UC Berkeley, founding member
and past president of ACADIA
(Association for Computer Aided Design In
Architecture). He has published over 100
scholarly papers and several books, including
New Heritage: Cultural Heritage and New
Media and Architecture’s New
Media. |
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Bernd Froehlich,
Professor and Head of the Virtual Reality
Systems Group, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar,
international leader in both VR and 3D
interaction research. He co-invented the
responsive workbench, and he is the 2008 Virtual
Reality Technical Achievement Award winner. |
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
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8:30 a.m. |
Registration |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Welcome by Chancellor Dubois and Dean Hadzikadic |
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Introduction to the Symposium, Bill Ribarsky, Director, Charlotte Visualization Center |
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Morning Speakers:
George Robertson, Felice Frankel |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Speakers:
Jeremy Wolfe, Hiding in Plain Sight: Visible Information that You Can't Find
Alan MacEachren |
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Art + Technology Performance
Final Event |
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Friday, April 25, 2008 |
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8:30 a.m. |
Registration |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Panel
Morning Speakers:
Yehuda Kalay
Bernd Froehlich |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch with remarks by Provost Lorden |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Demos at Woodward Hall (VisCenter, Future Computing Lab, and other labs) |
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Avoid entering campus through the
Main Entrance as it is under construction.
From north of Charlotte via
I-85
Take exit 45A (Harris Blvd). Merge onto
Harris, go 1 mile to the exit for UNC Charlotte/Hwy 49.
At bottom of exit ramp, turn left on 49. Turn left onto
Cameron Blvd (South UNCC Entrance), turn right onto
University Rd, turn left into Cone Upper Deck (Vistor
Parking).
From north of Charlotte via
I-77
Take exit 18 (Harris Blvd). Turn left
onto Harris and go 7 miles to the exit for UNC
Charlotte/Hwy 49. At bottom of exit ramp, turn left on
49. Turn left onto Cameron Blvd (South UNCC Entrance),
turn right onto University Rd, turn left into Cone Upper
Deck (Vistor Parking).
From south of Charlotte via
I-85
Take exit 45A (Harris Blvd). Turn right
onto Harris and go one mile to the exit for UNC
Charlotte\Hwy 49. At bottom of exit ramp, turn left on
49. Turn left onto Cameron Blvd (South UNCC Entrance),
turn right onto University Rd, turn left into Cone Upper
Deck (Vistor Parking).
From south of
Charlotte via I-77
Take I-77N to I-85N and
follow above directions via I-85.
From east of Charlotte via US
74
Turn right onto Harris Blvd, and travel 9
miles to UNC Charlotte\Hwy 49 exit. At bottom of exit
ramp, turn left on 49. Turn left onto Cameron Blvd
(South UNCC Entrance), turn right onto University Rd,
turn left into Cone Upper Deck (Vistor
Parking).
From Concord area
via US 29
Turn left onto Harris Blvd and go
1/2 mile to UNC Charlotte\Hwy 49 exit. At bottom of exit
ramp, turn left on 49. Turn left onto Cameron Blvd
(South UNCC Entrance), turn right onto University Rd,
turn left into Cone Upper Deck (Vistor
Parking). |
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For
attendees requiring overnight accommodations,
please contact either one of the Marriott
Properties in the vicinity (704-547-1122) or the
local Hilton (704-547-7444).
Attendees
should mention that they are attending the
VisCenter Symposium at UNC Charlotte in order to
learn of any special rates that may be available.
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