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FODAVA Annual Review Meeting 2010
FODAVA Annual Review Meeting, December 9-10, 2010, 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 Annual Meeting for the dates December 8-10, 2010
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).
Schedule
Thursday – December 9
08:30 – 09:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome (Larry Rosenblum, NSF) |
09:10 – 09:30 | Welcoming Remarks and Organizational Issues (Haesun Park, Georgia Tech) |
09:30 – 10:00 | Visual Analytics Activities at DHS (Joe Kielman, DHS) |
10:00 – 11:10 | Research Vignettes (Year 1 Awardees; 10 minute overview per project) |
10:00 - 10:10 | Global Structure Discovery on Sampled Spaces (Stanford) |
10:10 - 10:20 | Visualizing Audio for Anomaly Detection (Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
10:20 - 10:30 | Principles for Scalable Dynamic Visual Analytics (Michigan) |
10:30 - 10:40 | Efficient Data Reduction and Summarization (Cornell) |
10:40 - 10:50 | Uncertainty-Aware Data Transformations for Collaborative Reasoning (UC Davis) |
10:50 - 11:00 | Mathematical Foundations of Multiscale Graph Representations and Interactive Learning (Duke) |
11:00 - 11:10 | Visually-Motivated Characterizations of Point Sets Embedded in High-Dimensional Geometric Spaces (UIC/Northwestern) |
11:10 – 11:30 | Break |
11:30 – 12:00 | VAST Visualization Contest Summary (Stasko, Georgia Tech) |
12:00 – 1:00 | LUNCH |
1:00 – 2:00 | Research Vignettes/Educational Activities/Conference Activities (FODAVA Lead – Georgia Tech)
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2:00 – 2:45 | Talk – "Systems of Thought" - (Pat Hanrahan) |
2:45 – 3:00 | BREAK |
3:00 – 5:00 | Posters (Year 1 and FODAVA Lead) and Discussion |
6:00 | Cash Bar, Wine Room, STEEL restaurant. Walking directions: Go north on Spring Street and turn right onto 5th Street when you reach the Barnes and Nobles. Then turn left and go north on W. Peachtree St. It is located north of the 8th St intersection and south of the Peachtree Place intersection. |
6:30 | Dinner, Wine Room, STEEL restaurant |
Friday, December 10
08:00– 08:30 | Breakfast |
08:30– 09:45 | New Projects (Year 3 Awardees; 25 min. each) |
08:30 - 08:55 | Manifold Alignment of High-Dimensional Data Sets (Download part 1 part 2) (UMass-Amherst) |
08:55 - 09:20 | Multi-Source Visual Analytics (Arizona State) |
09:20 - 09:45 | Modeling the Uncertainty Due to Data/Visual Transformations Using Sensitivity Analysis Demo files ( Nav-streamline, flow, astro, influence, mit )(UC Davis) |
09:45 – 10:00 | Jim Thomas -- In Memorium (Cook et al.) |
10:00 – 10:15 | Break |
10:15 – 11:35 | Research Vignettes (Year 2 Awardees; 10 minutes per project) |
10:15 - 10:25 | Formal Models, Algorithms and Visualizations for Storytelling(Virginia Tech) |
10:25 - 10:35 | New Geometric Methods of Mixture Models for Interactive Visualization (Penn State) |
10:35 - 10:45 | Differential geometry approach for virus surface formation, evolution and visualization (Michigan State) |
10:45 - 10:55 | Scalable Visualization and Model Building (Purdue/Stanford) |
10:55 - 11:05 | Foundations of Comparative Analytics for Uncertainty in Graphs (Maryland/Georgetown/UC Santa Cruz) |
11:05 - 11:15 | Interactive Discovery and Semantic Labeling of Patterns in Spatial Data (Princeton) |
11:15 - 11:25 | Visualization of Analytic Processes (Carnegie Mellon) |
11:25 - 11:35 | Bayesian Analysis in Visual Analytics (Demo Video) (Virginia Tech) |
11:35 – 11:45 | Upcoming FODAVA solicitation (Larry) |
11:45 – 12:45 | LUNCH |
12:45 – 2:15 | Posters (Year 2) and Discussion |
2:15 – 2:30 | Final Remarks (Larry, Joe, Haesun) |
2:30 | ADJOURN |
2:30 – 3:00 | Management Team Meeting |