Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Challenges in Visualizing Big Data |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Hanson (St. Olaf College, USA) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Nils Gehlenborg (Harvard Medical School, USA) "Exploratory Visualization in Data-Intensive Biomedical Research" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Cesar Hidalgo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Medialab, USA) "Data Visualization Engines: Bringing
Big Data to Life" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Integrating Visualization in Education |
| Discussion Leader: Carrie McDougall (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Education, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jennifer Frazier (Exploratorium, USA) "Creating New Genres of Museum Exhibits with Scientific Visualizations" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | David Klahr (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) "Visualization
of Simple Causal Factors in Early Science Instruction" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Diana Sinton (University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, USA) "Why Spatial Thinking Underlies Visual Thinking" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Applying Artistic Principles in Scientific Visualization |
| Discussion Leader: Martin Storksdieck (Oregon State University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Addie Manis (VFX Producer, USA) "Visual Effects - Making Science Entertaining" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Adam Steinberg (ArtForScience, USA) "Using Artistic Principles to Visualize Scientific Data" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Challenging Phenomena to Visualize |
| Discussion Leader: Carol Hirschmugl (University of Wisconsin, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jaymie Matthews (University of British Columbia, Canada) "Turning Wiggles into Worlds" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute, USA) "Seeing More, Exploring More, and Knowing More: Virtual Finger Technologies for Massive 3D/4D/5D Image Data" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Chia Shen (Harvard University, USA) "Visualizing the Tree of Life to Advance Informal Science Learning" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Assessing the Impact of Scientific Visualization |
| Discussion Leader: Nancy Pelaez (Purdue University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Melanie Cooper (Michigan State University, USA) "Drawing the Invisible to Predict the Visible: From Drawing to Modeling in Chemistry" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Margaret Evans (University of Michigan, USA) "Bringing 'Big Data' to the Table: Two Methods of Analyzing the Impact of an Interactive Visualization" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Best Practices in Communicating Scientific Visualizations |
| Discussion Leader: Gael McGill (Harvard Medical School / Digizyme, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Ryan Wyatt (Morrison Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences, USA) "Planetariums as 21st-Century Digital Dioramas" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Jen Christiansen (Scientific American, USA) "The Value of Artistic License in Illustrating Scientific Concepts for a Non-Specialist Audience" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Michelle Viotti (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA) "'Sensuating'
STEAM*: Self- and Sense-Making Through Data Visualization
*STEAM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | What Do Student-Constructed Visualizations
Reveal About Student
Misconceptions |
| Discussion Leader: Kim Anne Kastens (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Wouter van Joolingen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) "Drawing-Based Modeling to Engage Young Children in Genuine Scientific Activities" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Michelle Wilkerson-Jerde (Tufts University, USA) "Expressive Technologies and Learning by Building Visualizations" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Latest Advances in Visualization |
| Discussion Leader: Vetria Byrd (Clemson University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jason Leigh (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) "Advanced Visualization Instrumentation" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Leilah Lyons (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) "Supporting Playful Collective Exploration of Data Visualizations in
Informal Science Settings" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Emily Law (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA) "Web-Based NASA Remote Sensing Data Visualization" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Horace Mitchell (Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, USA) "NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio: Lessons
Learned as a Visualization Service Provider" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | The Impact of Technological Change on Visualization in Science and Education |
| Discussion Leader: Marc Van Mil (University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Martin Kryzwinski (British Columbia Genome Sciences Centre, Canada) "Great Science, Poor
Visuals: End of an Era" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Sriram Subramaniam (National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA) "3D Electron Microscopy in Biology: The Use of Animations to Visualize Mechanism" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |