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The SAMSI-FODAVA Workshop on Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Massive Data will be held on December 10-12, 2012.
Posted: October 02, 2012
The FODAVA Annual Meeting will immediately follow (Dec 12-13) the SAMSI/FODAVA joint workshop at the same location.
Posted: September 05, 2012
Many of the modern data sets such as text and image data can be represented in high-dimensional vector spaces and have benefited from computational methods that utilize advanced techniques from num
Posted: June 30, 2012

FODAVA Annual Review Meeting 2011 Schedule

Thursday – December 8 (Technology Square Research Building, Room 132 (Banquet Hall))

8:30 - 9:00 Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome (Larry Rosenblum, NSF)
9:10 - 9:25 Welcoming Remarks and Organizational Issues (Haesun Park, Georgia Tech)
9:25 - 9:45 Visual Analytics Activities at DHS (Joe Kielman, DHS)
9:45 - 11:30 Research Vignettes (Year 1 Awardees; 15 minute overview per project)
  9:45 - 10:00   Global Structure Discovery on Sampled Spaces (Stanford)
  10:00 - 10:15   Visualizing Audio for Anomaly Detection (Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  10:15 - 10:30   BREAK
  10:30 - 10:45   Efficient Data Reduction and Summarization (Cornell)
  10:45 - 11:00   Uncertainty-Aware Data Transformations for Collaborative Reasoning (UC Davis)
  11:00 - 11:15   Mathematical Foundations of Multiscale Graph Representations and Interactive Learning (Duke)
  11:15 - 11:30   Visually-Motivated Characterizations of Point Sets Embedded in High-Dimensional Geometric Spaces (UIC/Northwestern)
11:30 - 1:15 LUNCH and Invited Talk "Visual Analytics Applications for Decision Making: From Research to End-User" by David Ebert (Purdue University)
Abstract: In this talk, I'll describe our approach to transitioning academic visual analytics research into practice that is being used by a variety of people in their daily job, in applications including law enforcement, public health, and maritime safety and risk-based decision making. A key factor in our success is integration of the intended user of the technology from the start and a strong committed partnership. Understanding the workflow and complexities of the entire decision making process and domain, not only enables more effective technology transition but leads to better research by providing multi-facetted, complex problems.
1:15 - 2:15 Research Vignettes/Educational Activities/Conference Activities (FODAVA Lead – Georgia Tech)
2:15 - 2:35 JIGSAW Update / VAST Competition/ etc. (Stasko)
2:35 - 3:00 BREAK
3:00 - 3:15 NVAC Activities (Richard May)
3:15 - 4:45 Posters (Year 1 and FODAVA Lead) and Discussion
6:00 Cash Bar (Georgia Tech Hotel Restaurant Bar)
6:30 Dinner, Welcome Remark by Dean Zvi Galil (Georgia Tech Hotel Restaurant, 1st floor)

Friday, December 9 (Technology Square Research Building, Room 132 (Banquet Hall))

8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 - 9:15 Research Vignettes (Year 3 Awardees; 15 minute overview per project)
  8:30 - 8:45   Manifold Alignment of High-Dimensional Data Sets (UMass-Amherst)
  8:45 - 9:00   Multi-Source Visual Analytics (Arizona State)
  9:00 - 9:15   Modeling the Uncertainty Due to Data/Visual Transformations Using Sensitivity Analysis (UC Davis) NOTES
9:15 - 11:30 Research Vignettes (Year 2 Awardees; 15 minute overview per project)
  9:15 - 9:30   Formal Models, Algorithms and Visualizations for Storytelling(Virginia Tech)
  9:30 - 9:45   New Geometric Methods of Mixture Models for Interactive Visualization (Penn State)
  9:45 - 10:00   Differential geometry approach for virus surface formation, evolution and visualization (Michigan State)
  10:00 - 10:15   BREAK
  10:15 - 10:30   Scalable Visualization and Model Building (Purdue/Stanford)
  10:30 - 10:45   Foundations of Comparative Analytics for Uncertainty in Graphs (Maryland/Georgetown/UC Santa Cruz)
  10:45 - 11:00   Interactive Discovery and Semantic Labeling of Patterns in Spatial Data (Princeton)
  11:00 - 11:15   Visualization of Analytic Processes (Carnegie Mellon)
  11:15 - 11:30   Bayesian Analysis in Visual Analytics (Virginia Tech)
11:30 - 12:30 LUNCH
12:30 - 2:00 Posters (Year 2 and Year 3) and Discussion
2:00 - 2:30 Final Remarks (Larry, Tie, Joe, Haesun)
2:30 ADJOURN
2:30 - 3:00 Management Team Meeting (TSRB 131)