Program

BPViz'16 Workshop Agenda

August 3 - 4, 2016

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Workshop Participants Arrive

 

Wednesday, August 3, 2016  

Purdue Memorial Union (2nd Floor), East Faculty Lounge

  7:00 AM  -  8:00 AM | Continental Breakfast

  7:30 AM  -  8:00 AM | Registration

  8:00 AM  -  8:30 AM | Welcome 

                                      Dr. Gary R. Bertoline

                                      Dean of the Purdue Polytechnic Institute

                                      Distinguished Professor of Computer Graphics Technology and Computer & Information                                       

                                      Technology at Purdue University
                                      

8:30 AM  -  8:45 AM | Workshop Overview  

                                    Vetria L. Byrd

                                    Workshop Organizers

 

Stewart Center, Room 278

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Panel: The Many Paths to Visualization 

 

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Networking Break

 

Stewart Center, Room 279

10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Meet the Panelists

                                     

Purdue Memorial Union (2nd Floor), East Faculty Lounge

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Plenary Talk / Lunch - Buffet

                                     

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | Plenary Talk : "A Defense of Artistic License in Illustrating Scientific Concepts for Non-Specialist Audience"

                                     Speaker: Jen Christiansen

                                     Senior Graphics Editor 

                                     Scientific American

                                     [ Abstract ]

 

12:45 PM - 2:00 PM | Concurrent Activities 

                                   Introduction to ParaView (Hands-on Session)
                                   Tsai-wei Wu, Data Visualization Scientist

                                   Stewart Center, Room 278 (personal laptop required)

 

                                   Sensing for Visualization: A Wiring and Processing workshop to read and visualize data (Hands-on Session: Processing Software)

                                    Esteban Garcia Bravo, Computer Graphics Technology

                                    KNOY Hall of Technology, Room 314 (personal laptop optional)

 

​                                   Building Visualization Competencies (Break Out Group)

                                   Vetria Byrd, Computer Graphics Technology

                                   Stewart Center, Room 204

 

Stewart Center, Room 279

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | Keynote Address  - Campus Wide Event - Registration Required 

                                 "Developing 3-D Spatial Skills: Removing Barriers to Success for Women in STEM"

                                 Speaker: Sheryl Sorby

                                 Professor, The Ohio State University, Engineering Education

                                 [ Abstract ]

 

Stewart Center, Room 278

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | Snapshot of  Visualization Resources Purdue University

 

Envision Center Tour

[Group A: 3:15 PM - 3:35 PM | Group B: 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM]

                         

VACCINE Center Tour - Potter 127

[Group B: 3:15 PM - 3:35 PM | Group A: 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM]

                               

Stewart Center, Room 278

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | Plenary Talk: "Sensors Everywhere: How the Internet of Things (IoT) Affects Data Visualization"

                                 Speaker: Michael A. Smith

                                 Visual Media Architect

                                  Academic Program Director with Intel                          

                                 [ Abstract ]

 

4:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Poster/Audio Visual Setup  - Stewart Center, Room 206
                                 By Workshop Participants

                                 Laptop/Software Check for Training at NCSA - Stewart Center, 204

 

Purdue Memorial Union (2nd Floor), East Faculty Lounge

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM | Dinner

 

Purdue Memorial Union (2nd Floor), East Faculty Lounge

Poster/Visualization Showcase of Work in Progress

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM | Fast Forward (Workshop Participants)

 

6:45 PM - 7:45 PM | Audio Visual Presentations

 

Stewart Center, Room 206

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Poster Session (Workshop Participants)

                                 Presentations:

                                 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Even Numbered Posters

                                 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM | Odd Numbered Posters

                                 9:00 PM | Poster Removal (Workshop Participants); Announcements for Day 2 Events

 

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Day 2: Hands on Workshop Sessions and Presentations at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1205 West Clark St.
Urbana, IL

7:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast

                                 Purdue Memorial Union (2nd Floor), East Faculty Lounge

 

8:30 AM  (EST)      | Board Bus for NCSA University of Illinois

 

9:00 AM  (CST)      | Arrive at NCSA

 

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Welcome to NCSA

 

9:20 AM - 11:20 AM | Hands on SciVis Workshop - NCSA Room 1030

                                  Roberto Sisneros, VisIt software

                                  Mark Vanmoer, Information Visualization Presentation 

 

11:30 AM -12:45 PM | Plenary Talk / Lunch

                                    NCSA Atrium

 

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM | Plenary Talk

                                   Donna J. Cox

                                   Director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL)

                                   National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

                                   University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

                                   [ Abstract ]

 

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM | Hands-on demonstrations of Outreach and Production-quality Data Visualization  - NCSA Room 1005                            

                                   Kalina Borkiewicz, data work flow and Houdini

                                   AJ Christensen, Houdini and rendering

 

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | BPViz'16 Group Photo (TBD)

                                 Networking (NCSA Atrium)

 

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | Advanced Visualization Laboratory, Hands-on demonstrations - NCSA Room 1005

                                 Robert Patterson, data choreography featuring Virtual Director/Partiview software

                                 Stuart Levy, data exploration using  Virtual Director/PartiView demonstration

                                 Jeff Carpenter, Interactive demonstration of preparing NASA data using After Effects software

                                 Kyungho Lee, Interactive Artistic Visualization of the body interactive demonstration using Virtual Reality

                                 Colter Wehmeier, Digital Cultural Heritage interactive demonstration using Oculus Rift

 

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Feedback and assessment

 

4:00 PM (CST) | Board Bus for Purdue University

 

7:00 PM (EST) | Arrive at Purdue University Union Hotel

 

7:15 PM - 8:30 PM | Dinner / Closing Presentation

 

7:45 PM - 8:15 PM | "Data Visualization Past, Present, and Future" 

                                  Speaker: Kelly Gaither

​                                  Director of Visualization

                                  Texas Advanced Computing Center

                                  Scalable Vis Technologies; Vis Interfaces & Applications

                                  [ Abstract ]

 

8:15 PM - 8:30 PM | Last Impressions / Participant Feedback

                                 Reimbursement Logistics

                                 Closing Remarks

 

Friday, August 5, 2016

Participants Depart