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FODAVA Annual Review Meeting, December 3-4, 2009
FODAVA Review Meeting, Dec. 3-4, Klaus Building,
Georgia Institute of Technology
The event will be held at 1116 Klaus Advanced Computing Building, 266Ferst Drive NW, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
Registration signups are at the bottoms of this page
Hotel Reservation for FODAVA Review Meeting (Now Closed)
Driving/Parking, Walking and Bus Directions
AIRPORT ARRIVAL
Hotel Information and Directions to the Hotel from the Airport can be found here
DRIVING & PARKING
For those driving, a map from GaTech Hotel to Klaus can be found here
Visitors can park at Area 4 parking in the following map (Klaus is E40 on the map): Parking Map
Drive West on 5th Street (turns into Ferst St), pass the Klaus building (on the left), and take a left when you hit the Ferst and State St intersection. Parking area will be directly to the left when you enter the lot.
WALKING
For those walking, a map of a quicker route is here (NOTE: walk straight down 5th St. and then up the stairs of the Klaus Building (stairs shown on the picture to the right) - Atrium will be inside the main entrance to the right)
BUS
Additionally, there is a bus (Tech Trolley) which will take you to the building. Get on the Tech Trolley from the north side of 5th Street (bus going West). Once you see the building (as shown on the photo) exit the bus and cross the street safely.
A campus map can be found here (where the building is listed as Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building).
AGENDA - FODAVA ANNUAL REVIEW Meeting, DEC 3-4, 2009
1116 and Atrium Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
THURSDAY December 3
8:30-9:00 | Check in and Breakfast, Atrium |
9:00-10:00 | UPDATES ON ACTIVITIES, Chair: Jim Foley |
9:00-9:15 | Introduction to FODAVA -- Larry Rosenblum, NSF |
9:15-9:30 | Update on Visual Analytics -- Jim Thomas, NVAC |
9:30-9:45 | Update on DHS activities -- Joe Kielman, DHS |
9:45-10:00 | Update on FODAVA Lead – Haesun Park, Georgia Tech |
10:00-10:15 | Break |
10:15-12:00 | RESEARCH BRIEFINGS -- GEORGIA TECH, Chair: M. Hasegawa-Johnson FODAVA-Lead: Dimension Reduction and Data Reduction: Foundations for Visualization Haesun Park, Alex Gray, Vladimir Koltchinskii, Renato Monteiro |
12:00-1:00 | Lunch, Atrium |
1:00-2:00 | PANEL: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN MATHEMATICS/COMPUTATION AND ANALYTICS: HOW DOES IT COME TOGETHER, Chair: J. Thomas Panelists: K. Ma, M. Maggioni, H. Park, L. Wilkinson |
2:00-2:10 | Break |
2:10-4:40 | RESEARCH BRIEFINGS I -- FY08 Partners, Chair: L. Wilkinson |
2:10-2:40 | Mauro Maggioni (Duke) Mathematical Foundations of Multiscale Graph Representations and Interactive Learning |
2:40-3:10 | Ping Li (Cornell) Efficient Data Reduction and Summarization |
3:10-3:40 | Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (Illinois) Visualizing Audio for Anomaly Detection |
3:40-4:10 | H. Jagadish (Michigan) Principles for Scalable Dynamic Visual Analytics |
4:10-4:40 | Leonidas Guibas (Stanford) Global Structure Discovery on Sampled Spaces |
4:40-5:00 | Break |
5:00-6:00 | Demonstration on Visual Analytics Systems, John Stasko and Carsten Goerg (Georgia Tech) |
6:00-6:30 | Reception and Welcome Remark by Dr. Gary Schuster, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Georgia Tech, Atrium |
6:30-8:00 | Buffet DINNER, Atrium, Sponsored by Computational Science and Engineering Division, Georgia Tech |
FRIDAY December 4
8:00-8:30 | Breakfast, Atrium |
8:30-10:10 | RESEARCH PLANS I -- FY09 Partners (new awards), Chair: K. Ma |
8:30-8:55 | Naren Ramakrishnan (VaTech) Formal Models, Algorithms, and Visualizations for Storytelling Analytic |
8:55-9:20 | Jia Li (PSU) New Geometric Methods of Mixture Models for Interactive Visualization |
9:20-9:45 | Ole Mengshoel (CMU) Visualization of Analytical Processes |
9:45-10:10 | Lise Getoor (Maryland) Foundations of Comparative Analytics for Uncertainty in Graphs |
10:10-10:30 | Break |
10:30-12:10 | RESEARCH PLANS II -- FY09 Partners (new awards) |
10:30-10:55 | Thomas Funkhouser (Princeton) Interactive Discovery and Semantic Labeling of Patterns in Spatial Data |
10:55-11:20 | Scotland Leman (VaTech) Bayesian Analysis in Visual Analytics (BAVA) |
11:20-11:45 | Bill Cleveland (Purdue) Scalable Visualization and Model Building |
11:45-12:10 | Guowei Wei(MSU) Differential geometry approach for virus surface formation, evolution and visualization |
12:10-1:10 | Lunch |
1:10-2:10 | RESEARCH BRIEFINGS II -- FY08 Partners (Continued), Chair: H. Zha |
1:10-1:40 | Leland Wilkinson (UI - Chicago) Visually-Motivated Characterizations of Point Sets Embedded in High-Dimensional Geometric Spaces |
1:40-2:10 | Kwan-Liu Ma (UC Davis) Uncertainty-Aware Data Transformations for Collaborative Reasoning |
2:10-3:00 | BREAKOUT GROUP DISCUSSIONS and REPORTING BACK, Chair: Richard Fujimoto |
2:10-2:45 | Meeting of FODAVA Management Team & GaTech Lead PIs to discuss issues/directions/changes/etc |
2:10-2:45 | Breakout Group Discussion - How FODAVA Team members can best collaborate and advance FODAVA |
2:45–3:00 | Reporting back from the breakout group discussion |
Adjourn