Grand Opening Symposium

 
Charlotte Visualization Center Grand Opening
Symposium on the
Future of Visualization


Schedule
Monday, May 1, 2006
9:00 am Welcome by Chancellor Dubois and Dean Hadzikadic
9:15 am Stu Card, "Using Vision to Think"
10:00 am Chuck Hansen, "The Future of Large-Scale Scientific Visualization"
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Pat Hanrahan, "Towards Automating Graphic Design"
11:45 am Jim Thomas, "Visual Analytics: a Grand Challenge in Science - Turning Information Overload into the Opportunity of the Decade"
12:30 pm Lunch with remarks by Provost Lorden
1:30 pm Arie Kaufman, "Virtual Colonoscopy"
2:15 pm Daniel Keim, "Scalability in Visual Data Exploration: Learning from Human Information Processing"
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Jim Foley, "Just Another Pretty Visualization? or The What, Where, When, Why, and How of Evaluating Visualization"
4:00 pm Bill Ribarsky, "Knowledge Visualization"
4:45 pm Day 1 wrap-up
5:00 pm Ajourn

Tuesday, May 2 2006
9:00 am Panel, Fred Brooks, Larry Hodges, Agus Sudjianto, "Further Thoughts on the Future of Visualization"
10:00 am Kent Larson, "Visualizing Unbuilt Architectural Masterworks"
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Presentations by VisCenter faculty
Robert Kosara, "Towards a Theory of Purpose-Driven Visualization"
Aidong Lu, "Automatic Visualization?"
Zachary Wartell, "Travel and Interication in Multi-Scale 3D Environments on Tracked, Stereoscopic Displays"
Jing Yang, "Semantic Image Browser: Bridging Information Visualization with Automated Intelligent Image Analysis"
12:15 pm Wrap-up
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Demos at Woodward Hall (VisCenter, Future Computing Lab, and other labs)
3:30 pm End of Conference