From: grinstei@cs.ulowell.edu (Georges Grinstein)
Subject: VISUALIZATION'92 CONFERENCE - ADVANCE PROGRAM
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Distribution: comp.graphics sci.image.process comp.graphics.avs comp.graphics.khoros comp.graphics.explorer sci.cognitive comp.soft-sys.khoros
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:01:49 GMT


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        IEEE VISUALIZATION '92 Email Advance Announcement  
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                          October 19-23, 1992
                        Boston Park Plaza Hotel 
                         Boston, Massachusetts

After only two years, the annual IEEE Visualization Conference has 
become an important forum for the dissemination of research results
in the area of scientific data visualization.  The conference 
has been especially successful at fostering multi-disciplinary 
interaction among scientists, computer scientists, and perception 
specialists.  The third Visualization Conference promises to be even 
more exciting and significant.  The number of submitted papers is 
nearly double that of last year and the quality is very high.  
The other technical submissions for the conference have shown similar 
increases in quantity and quality. The technical program should be 
the best ever.  The IEEE Visualization conference is rapidly becoming 
the highlight of the year for many visualization researchers and 
scientists.  Join us in Boston and find out why!!

           Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
           Bruce E. Brown, Oracle
           IEEE Visualization '92 Co-Chairs

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                IEEE Visualization 92 At-a-Glance
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Day	8am  9am  10am  11am  12pm  1pm  2pm  3pm  4pm  5pm  6pm  7pm  8pm  
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Sun 18	|    |     |     l     |    |  *-Half-day-Tutorial*  |    |    | 
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Mon 19  *---Workshops-and-Full-Day-Tutorial------------*     |    |    |
	|    |     |     |     |    |  *Half-day-Tutorials*  |    |    |
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Tue 20  *---Workshops-and-Full-Day-Tutorials-----------*     |  *How to 
	|  *--Half-day-Tutorial-*   *-Half-day-Tutorial---*  |   Lie with
        |    |     |     |     |    |    |    |    |    |    |     Vis*
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Wed 21      Keynote    Keynote |    |  *Papers**Papers* |    *Conference
	|  *Speaker*  *--Panel-*    |  *Case--*    |    |    *Reception*
	|    |     |     |     |    |  *Panel-**   |    |    |    |    |
	|    |     |     |     *----Demonstrations------*    |    |    |
	|    |     |     |     |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
Thur 22    *Papers*|-*Papers----*   |  *-Papers-**Papers--*  |    |    |
	|  *Case--*|-*Papers----*   |  *-Papers-**Papers--*  |    |    |
	|  *Panel-*|-*Panel-----*   |  *-Case---**Panel---*  |  *Research
	|    |     |  *--------Demonstrations----* |    |    |  Problems* 
	|    |     |     |     |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
Fri 23     *Papers*|-*Papers----*   |   Capstone   |    |    |    |    |
	|  *Papers*|-*Case------*   |  *Speaker*   |    |    |    |    |
	|  *Panel-*|-*Panel-----*   |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
	|    |     |     |     |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
	8am  9am  10am  11am  12pm  1pm  2pm  3pm  4pm  5pm  6pm  7pm  8pm  

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                             Workshops
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Workshops listed below are now being organized. Please reach the 
workshop organizer listed below to indicate your interest in 
participation. Participants for Workshops 1,2, and 3 are expected to
prepare a short paper that outlines their research and provide data to
be shared by colleagues in this field. Participation in Workshops 1,2, and 3
is limited and participants are selected by the workshop organizer.
Workshop 4 is open to anyone who wishes to register; the presenters have
already been selected. Workshop 4 attendees are expected to contact the
workshop organizer to indicate their interest in attending.
The workshops will be scheduled on Monday and Tuesday. 
There will be a $50 fee for each workshop per day. 
Please pay the fee on-site to participate in the workshop at 
Visualization '92.

            Monday Workshops            Tuesday Workshops
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     | #2 Automated Design of     |              / #1 Education in|
     |    Visualization           |              / Scientific Vis.|
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     |     #3 Multi Variate,      |    #4: Khoros Users'          |
     | Multi-Dim. Visualization   |        Workshop               |
     --------------------------------------------------------------

Workshop 1 Tuesday P.M. (half day):
	An Agenda for Education in Scientific Visualization
        ---------------------------------------------------
Organizer/Contact:
	Gitta Domik, Ph.D. University of Colorado
	domik@wilkinson.cs.colorado.edu
    	Phone: (303) 492-4062

Workshop Topics: 
- What are the core topics to include in the teaching of visualization?
- What are the essential reference articles for this course?
- Is there public domain software and data for this course?
- Can we create/collect data for classic models of visualization?


Workshop 2 Monday (one day):
           Automated Design of Visualizations
           ----------------------------------
Organizer/Contacts:
	Hikmet Senay, The George Washington University
	senay@seas.gwu.edu
        Phone: (202) 994-5910

	Philip K. Robertson, CSIRO Divison of Information Technology
	phil@csis.dit.csiro.au

Workshop Topics:
- Establish a conceptual foundation for automation
- Investigate alternative models for automating visualization
- Identify and model knowledge needed for visualization
- Discuss how types of knowledge can be utilized with alternative models


Workshop 3  Monday (one day):
          Putting Together a Multivariate, Multidimensional 
          Visualization (mDv) System
          -------------------------------------------------
Organizer/contact:
	Jeff Beddow, Hennepin County
	beddow@epx.cis.umn.edu
	Phone: (612) 348-3105

Workshop Topics:
- Effectiveness of design choices 
- Elements of graphical perception and representation strategies
- Defining the application task as mDv
- Criteria for successful display
- Criteria for successful integration of mDv with application


Workshop 4 Tuesday (one day):
             Khoros User's Workshop
             ----------------------
Organizer/contact:
        Khoros Users Group
	khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu
        Phone:(505) 277-6563
	Phone:(505) 277-1413

Workshop Topics:
- Extending the Khoros system to include 3D geometry and data visualization
- Khoros as a collaboration technology
- Application Building and the Software Development Environment
- Distributed Computing
- The Khoros Data Model
- Research projects completed or in progress using Khoros
- Commercial applications built using Khoros
- Comparison of Khoros to other systems


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                          Tutorials     
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Day    	| Morning		     | Afternoon		       
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Sunday        |			     | # 1 Introduction to Volume    
| Oct. 18	|			     |   Visualization (Kaufman,     
|		|			     |   Lorensen & Yagel)          
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Monday	| # 2 Virtual Environment Techniques in Scientific    
| Oct. 19       |   Visualization      (Bryson)				     
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
|		|			     | # 3 Visual Perception for
|	        |			     | Visualization and Imaging   
|		|			     |   (Gross)		     
|		|			     |			     
|		|			     | # 4 Interactive Visualization, 
|		|			     |   Molecular Dynamics, and      
|		|			     |   Molecular Modeling	     
|		|			     |   (Ribarski & Hodges)	     
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Tuesday	| # 5 Color Theory and Models for Computer Graphics and    
| Oct. 20       |  Visualization (Levkowitz, Robertson & Rogowitz)	     
|		|			     				     
|		| # 6 Topology, Vector Fields and Flows
|               | (Globus, Post, Asimov & Levit) 
|		|------------------------------------------------------------+
|		| # 7 Automating the Design  | # 8 Designing a Visualization   
|		|   of Effective Graphics    |   Interface for Multi-	     
|		|   (Feiner, Mackinlay &     |   dimensional and Multivariate
|		|    Marks                   |   Data (Beddow)               
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Tutorial 1 - Sunday October 18: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Introduction to Volume Visualization
------------------------------------
Instructors: Arie Kaufman, William Lorenson, and Roni Yagel

Description:
Volume visualization is concerned with the tasks of representing, 
manipulating, and rendering volumetric  data. This course provides an 
overview of the technology, the nomenclature, and the techniques  for  
these tasks, emphasizing algorithms, architectures, and applications.  
The course covers and compares different approaches in volume 
representation, volume synthesis, volume and surface viewing, volume 
shading, and a variety of applications exemplifying the use of volume 
visualization techniques.

Who Should Attend?
This is an introductory course for scientists, engineers, computer 
graphicists, and graduate students who are new to the field of volume 
visualization or interested in expanding their knowledge in that field.

Instructors:
Arie Kaufman is a professor of computer science at the State University 
of New York at Stony Brook. He is the editor of Volume Visualization, an 
IEEE Computer Science Press tutorial. William Lorensen is a graphics 
engineer in the Information Systems Laboratory at General Electric 
Corporate Research and Development Center. Roni Yagel is an assistant 
professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at The Ohio 
State University.


Tutorial 2 - Monday October 19: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Virtual Environment Techniques in Scientific Visualization
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Instructor: Steve Bryson

Description:
This course will introduce and discuss virtual environment techniques 
and their use in scientific visualization. These techniques encompass a 
variety of hardware and software technologies allowing natural display 
and control in 3D space. Implementation of virtual environment techniques 
as well as their application to various scientific visualization 
problems will be presented in detail. Relevant topics covered, among 
others, are human factors, system integration and performance, and user 
task design. The course will describe various example systems ranging 
from stereo workstations environments to fully immersive virtual reality
systems.

Who Should Attend?
This course is for those interested in applying virtual environment 
techniques to their visualization projects. No previous familiarity with 
virtual environments, other than some familiarity with 3D graphics 
programming on workstations, is assumed.

Instructor:
Steve Bryson is a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. His 
work involves the design and application of virtual reality techniques 
for scientific visualization. Prior to joining NASA Ames, he worked on 
various virtual reality projects at VPL Research.


Tutorial 3 - Monday October 19: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Visual Perception for Visualization and Imaging
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Instructor: Markus Gross

Description:  
The human visual system is the most powerful image processing system 
known so far. In this course, an introduction to the human visual system 
will be given, considering both psychophysical and physiological results 
and showing implications for visualization problems. Applications of 
these aspects can be found in man-machine communication and virtual 
reality, gesture recognition, multidimensional data mapping, and visual 
interpretation of shapes.

Who Should Attend?
This is an introductory course for scientists, engineers, computer 
graphicists, and software developers who are interested in understanding 
the principles of visual perception as it relates to visualization and 
imaging.

Instructor:
Markus Gross is the director of the visual computing group at the 
Computer Graphics Center in Darmstadt, Germany. He is also a lecturer at 
the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research interests include 
scientific visualization, rendering techiques, human perception and 
neural network applications for visual pattern recognition and computer 
vision.


Tutorial 4 - Monday October 19: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Interactive Visualization, Molecular Dynamics, and Molecular 
Modeling
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Instructors: Bill Ribarsky and Larry Hodges

Tutorial Description:
This course provides working knowledge of current methods of exploratory 
visualization and analysis. Attendees will become familiar with the 
state of the art (and see what is coming) in interactive visualization 
and learn about applications, in particular, molecular dynamics and 
molecular modeling. Topics covered will include 1) stereoscopic computer 
graphics methods; 2) incorporating motion, interactivity, and 
interactive devices; 3) visual representations for complex, multivariate 
data; 4) software tools and techniques for visualizing simulational or 
observational data; 5) what the future holds.

Who Should Attend?
The course is aimed at scientists or application programmers who might 
use interactive visualization techniques and at researchers who work 
with computer simulations or observational data from molecular dynamics, 
molecular structure, or other applications.

Instructors:
Bill Ribarsky is a senior research scientist and the director of 
Scientific Visualization Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. 
He is also the associate director for service at Graphics, 
Visualization, and Usability Center, Office of Information Technology at 
Georgia Tech. Larry Hodges is an assistant professor and associate 
director for education at Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center 
in College of Computing at  Georgia Institute of Technology.



Tutorial 5 - Tuesday October 20: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Color Theory and Models for Computer Graphics and 
Visualization
-------------------------------------------------
Instructors: Haim Levkowitz, Philip Robertson, and Bernice Rogowitz

Description:
Color is a powerful aid to visual representation, if used appropriately. 
It can be used to code qualitative or quantitative, single- or multi-
parameter data. However, many of the large number of possibilities can 
degrade the representation rather than improve it. Because of this risk
the use of color has become very controversial. This course introduces
basic color theory and addresses issues of the use of color in graphics
and visualization. In the first part, attendees will gain a basic
understanding of color vision and theory. In the second part, they will
learn how to apply that knowledge to computer graphics and visualization
so as to be able to generate displays that are more efficient from the
human vision point of view and avoid common problems.

Who Should Attend?
This course is aimed at those who lack the fundamental background of 
basic color theory and those who would like to improve their day-to-day 
graphics and visualization results (in research, development, 
implementation) by gaining a better understanding of the specific issues 
of color in graphics and visualization.

Instructors:
Haim Levkowitz is an assistant professor of computer science and a 
founding member of the Institute for Visualization and Perception 
Research at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Philip Robertson 
is a principle research scientist at the CSIRO Division of Information 
Technology, Centre for Spatial Information Systems in Canberra, 
Australia. He also lectures in computer science at the Australian 
National University. Bernice Rogowitz is a member of the Virtual User 
Environment Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.


Tutorial 6 - Tuesday October 20: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Topology, Vector Fields, and Flows
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Instructors: Al Globus, Dan Asimov, Creon Levit, and Frits Post

Description:
Vector fields play a crucial role in relating differential equations to 
space transformations. As a result, vector fields have many uses in
science, especially in computational fluid dynamics. This course provides
the groundwork for understanding vector field topology and related
visualization techniques. It discusses the mathematics of flow topology
and the interactive visualization of underlying flow fields. In addition,
the techniques for the visualization of fluid flow data will be surveyed
in detail.

Who Should Attend?
Those interested in using state-of-the-art in vector and flow 
visualization, including stream lines, particle traces, topological 
techniques, etc., to visualize scientific data.

Instructors:
Al Globus and Creon Levit are research scientists at the Numerical 
Aerodynamic Simulation Systems Division at NASA Ames. They developed a 
FAST module using vector field topology to visualize computational fluid 
dynamics data. Dan Asimov is a senior computer scientist at the Computer 
Sciences Corporation (at NASA Ames Research Center) and an educator who has 
held positions at numerous schools includeing Harvard University, Stanford
University and U.C. Berkeley. Frits Post is an associate professor of
computer science at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
 
Tutorial 7 - Tuesday October 20: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Automating the Design of Effective Graphics
-------------------------------------------
Instructors: Steve Feiner, Jock Mackinlay, and Joe Marks

Description:
This course introduces the notion of a graphically articulate computer 
system--one that can design effective graphics automatically to 
communicate information. It will survey current research and describe 
themes and algorithmic techniques that have arisen in the develoment of 
such systems. The course will include a set of case studies of projects 
that address business graphics, 3D graphics for technical documentation, 
and automated cartography, and will explain how the techniques developed 
for these projects can be applied to visualization applications.

Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for programmers and researchers who are 
interested in learning how artificial intelligence techniques can be 
applied to automate the design of effective graphics. Working knowledge 
of 2D and 3D computer graphics, corresponding to an introductory course 
in computer graphics is required.

Instructors:
Steve Feiner is an associate professor of computer science at Columbia 
University. His research interests include image synthesis, applications 
of artificial intelligence to computer graphics, user interfaces, 
animation, hypermedia, virtual worlds, and visualization. Jock Mackinlay 
is a research scientist at Xerox PARC and a member of the User Interface 
Research Group. Joe Marks has recently joined the research staff at 
Digital Equipment Corporartion's Cambridge Research Center. Prior to his 
graduate studies, he was employed at BBN and Wang Laboratories.



Tutorial 8 - Tuesday October 20: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Designing a Visualization Interface for Multidimensional, 
Multivariate Data
---------------------------------------------------------
Instructor: Jeff Beddow and Cliff Beshers

Description:
This course offers an introduction to the technical and perceptual issues 
involved in the visualization of complex, multivariate data. It offers a 
solid foundation to the newcomer to the field, and useful information to
the engineer or scientist with some knowledge of dimensional reduction
and projection techniques. The emphasis is on the needs of the practitioner.
Existing methods, including glyph-based, parallel coordinate, and hierarchal,
are reviewed.

Who Should Attend?
Visualization center directors who are looking to offer state of the art 
visualization tools and techniques. Software developers, application 
specific engineers looking for tools, and discipline scientists looking for 
new methods.

Instructor:
Jeff Beddow is a graphic artist and visualization consultant currently
employed by Hennepin County, in Minnesota. His clients for multidimensional
visualization consulting include the State of Minnesota, National Car
Rental, McGraw Hill Publishing, California Testing Bureau, and Lawrence
Livermore's Magnetic Fusion project. Cliff Beshers is a doctoral candidate
at Columbia University. He is the author or co-author of several
visualization systems that use both analytic and synthetic methods to map
higher dimensional or multivariate data to graphics displays.
His research is widely published.


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                         Keynote Address: 
               High Performance Computing and Communications 
========================================================================
Eugene Wong, the Associate Director for Industrial Technology, Office of 
Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President will 
speak to Visualization 92 attendees. This talk will describe the 
presidential initiative on High Performance Computing and Communications
and the strategic vision that it brings.  Visualization is one of the 
key areas that will be profoundly affected by both the technological
advances and the increased access to high performance computing and
communications.


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                         Keynote Panel
              Interactions Between Visualization and Science
========================================================================
The Keynote Panel will investigate the relationships between 
Visualization and Science.  How can good visualization techniques help
us to do science better?  How can the needs of science influence 
visualization research more effectively?

Panelists: 
     Dr. Robert Langridge, Department of Parmaceutical Chemistry,
	  UC San Francisco
     Dr. Jeff Dozier, Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics,
	  UC Santa Barbara
     Dr. John Conway, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University	
     Dr. Stephen Benton, Media Laboratory, MIT

     Moderator: Dr. Larry Rosenblum, Naval Research Laboratory
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                        Capstone Address
                  Parallel Processing of Form, Color,
      Motion, and Depth:  Anatomy, Physiology, Art, and Illusion
========================================================================

Capstone Speaker: Margaret Livingstone
                  Harvard Medical School

Seeing is much more complicated than most people realize.  It is tempting
to think of vision as just another way of making a picture.  However, no
camera or computer system can match the ability of the human visual system
to make sense of an infinite variety of images.  That ability is made 
possible by the brain's capacity to process huge amounts of information
simultaneously. 

Recent studies suggest that form, color, and spatial information are
processed along three independent pathways in the brain.  That explains
why certain images can create surprising visual effects.  Taking into 
account these characteristics of the visual system could vastly 
improve the perceptual quality of the display of images.

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              Special Features in the Evening at Vis '92
========================================================================

              How to Lie and Confuse with Visualization
              ----------------------------------------- 
                          Tuesday 7:00pm

People have lied with statistics and maps for years.  Now it's time to look
into lying and confusing in the field of visualization. Your big chance to
do just that, in the open, will be in this special session on Tuesday,
Oct. 20, 1992 at 7:00 pm.  You are invited to bring with you visualization
lies and confusing articles, yours or others, on 35mm slides or video. 
During this evening, it will be allowed to lie but not to borrow credit,
so please do not forget to mention the producers' names.
After the informal presentations and truthful debates, the audience will
choose the biggest (visualization) lie for 1992.  When the evening is over,
lying will be outlawed again.  Then, we will be all able to benefit from
this teaching of what it takes to produce realistic and faithful
visualizations.

Reservations and advance submissions are now being accepted (c/o Nahum
Gershon, The MITRE Corporation, 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102). 
Both are not required but are strongly recommended.  For more information
(genuine!), please email gershon@mitre.org or call (703) 883-7518. 



           Research Problems in Visualization Session
           ------------------------------------------
                        Thursday 7:30pm

This is an informal meeting to discuss results on any of the 1991
research problems or to present new research questions to be included
in the 1992 research problem set.  These problems will be published in
the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Graphics Newsletter.
Presenters should send their one page descriptions of results or the
new research problem to grinstein@cs.ulowell.edu by October 1, 1992.


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                   Visualization 92 Demonstrations
========================================================================

The Demonstration Sessions, to be held Wednesday afternoon and all day 
Thursday, are designed as interactive showcases of current research activity
in visualization.  Groups representing a wide variety of industry and
university research efforts will display recent innovations in visualization
hardware and software technology.  In addition, several workstation
platforms will be made available to conference attendees on a time-shared
basis who wish to display their novel tools, techniques, and applications
of visualization.  Persons interested in reserving a table or time on a
shared system at the Demonstration Session should contact Matt Ward,
Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester,
MA, 01609, 508-831-5671, matt@cs.wpi.edu.  Space and time is limited and
on a first-come, first-served basis.

The demos will open Wednesday afternoon from 12:00pm to 5:00pm. Demos
will run simultaneously with technical sessions on Thursday from 10:00am
to 3:00pm.

The cost for a reserved table is $1750 for industrial organizations 
and $500 for non-profit organizations.  There is no charge for use of 
the time-shared systems.

The following companies and universities have already committed to give
a demonstration at VIS '92:

Boston University, demonstrating distributed visualization 
Harvard, Center for Astrophysics, with Wavemaker
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, showing IBM Visualization Data Explorer
MIT, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, showing Visual3
NASA Ames
Stanford, Department of Applied Earth Sciences, showing VisualSedsim
University of Maryland, Computer Science Department, showing  TreeViz
University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Institute for Visualization and
Perception Research, showing EXVIS
AVS Inc.
Digital Equipment Corp.
Digital Image Design
DSP Development Corporation, showing DADiSP


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		 1992 ACM Boston Volume Visualization Workshop
=======================================================================

As a follow-on to the successful Chapel Hill and San Diego Workshops on
Volume Visualization, this third workshop will be held in conjunction
with IEEE Visualization '92 in the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. The Workshop
is sponsored by ACM-SIGGRAPH in cooperation with the IEEE Computer 
Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics.  

For information on registering for the Boston Volume Visualization 
Workshop, contact the Vol Vis registrar, Ed Council, at (508) 872-0796
or send email to volvis92@cs.ulowell.edu. You may also call the VIS92 phone,
(510) 423-9368 to request a mailing of the registration info on 1992 Boston
Volume Visualization.


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                    Visualization 92 Parallel Sessions
========================================================================

Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1:30 - 3:30
1A
Papers: Volume Visualization
----------------------------
Towards a Comprehensive Volume Visualization System,
Ricardo Avila, Lisa Sobierajski, Arie Kaufman, State University of 
New York at Stony Brook

Approximation and Rendering of Volume Data Using Wavelet 
Transforms, Shigeru Muraki, Electrotechnical Laboratory

Interactive Visualization of Large Scalar Voxel Fields, Georgios Sakas, 
Jochen Hartig, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt

Interactive Splatting of Nonrectilinear Volumes, Peter Williams, 
University of Illinois at Urbana
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1B
Case Studies Session on Physics
------------------------------- 
Astrophysics: Mapping the Universe, Margaret Geller, Harvard-
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Material Sciences: Visualization of Neutron Scattering Data Using 
AVS, Rajka Popovic, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Particle Physics: The Use of DEC AVS for High Energy Physics Event
Viewing, Carola Clavi, European Center for High Energy Physics (CERN)
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1C
Panel: Managing Large Scientific Databases
------------------------------------------
Chair: William Campbell, NASA/GSFC
Panel Members:
Robert Cromp, NASA/GSFC, Gyorgy Fekete, NASA/GSFC, Ray Wall, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, and Michael Goldberg, The MITRE Corporation

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Wednesday, Oct. 21, 3:45 - 5:15
2A
Papers: Flow Visualization I
----------------------------
Virtual Smoke:  An Interactive 3D Flow Visualization Technique,  
Kwan-Liu Ma, Philip J. Smith, University of Utah

Rendering Surface-Particles, Jarke van Wijk, Netherlands Energy 
Research Foundation ECN

A 3D Streamline Tracking Algorithm Using Dual Stream Functions,
David Kenwright, Gordon Mallinson, The University of Auckland
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Thursday, Oct. 22, 8:30 - 10:00
3A
Papers: Surfaces Visualization
------------------------------
Generalized Focal Surfaces: A  New Method for Surface Interrogation,
Hans Hagen, Stefanie Hahmann, Universitat Kaiserslautern, Germany 

Massively Parallel Isosurface Extraction, Charles Hansen, Paul Hinker,
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Four-Dimensional Views of 3D Scalar Fields, Pheng Heng, Indiana 
University, Andrew Hanson, CERN and Indiana University
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3B
Case Studies Session on Life Sciences
-------------------------------------
Anthropology: Visualization in Anthropology: Reconstruction of 
Human Fossils from Multiple Pieces, Alan Kalvin, IBM T.J. Watson 
Research Center

Cardiology: Visualization of Cardiac Bioelectricity, Robert MacLeod,
University of Utah

Electron Microscopy: The Microscopists' Workstation, Philip Mercurio,
San Diego Supercomputer Center
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3C
Panel: Grand Challenge Problems in Visualization Software
---------------------------------------------------------
Chair: Lloyd Treinish, IBM J. Watson Research Center
Panel Members:
David M. Butler, Sandia National Lab, Hikmet Senay, George Washington
University, Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and
Steve T. Bryson, NASA-Ames

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Thursday, Oct. 22, 10:15 - 12:15
4A
Papers: Visualization Systems
-----------------------------
Volume Rendering on a Distributed Memory Parallel Computer, T. Todd 
Elvins, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Direct Volumetric Visualization, Fred Wefer, The MITRE Corporation, R. Don
Williams, Texas Instruments, Inc., T. E. Clifton III, US Air Force

An Architecture for a Scientific Visualization System, Bruce Lucas, 
Gregory Abram, Nancy Collins, David Epstein, Donna Gresh, Kevin 
McAuliffe, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Anatomical Atlases Based on Volume Visualization, K. H. Hoehne, 
M. Bomans, M. Riemer, R. Schubert, U. Tiede Institut fur Mathematik
und Datenverabeitung in der Medizin,
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4B
Papers: Data Structures
-----------------------
Improving the Visualization of Hierarchies with Treemaps: Design Issue
and Experimentation, Brian Johnson, Dave Turo, University of Maryland

An Efficient Range Search Algorithm for Visualizing Extrema of 
Volume Data, Xiaolin Wu, University of Western Ontario, Yonggang 
Fang, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Display of Scientific Data Structures of Algorithm Visualization, William
Hibbard, Charles Dyer, Brian Paul, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Representing Medical Images with Partitioning Tree, Bruce Naylor, K. 
R. Subramanian, AT&T Bell Laboratories
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4C
Panel: Improving Visualization: Perceptual Foundations
------------------------------------------------------
Chair: Stephen Kosslyn, Harvard University
Panel Members:
Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation, Haim Levkowitz, University of
Massachusetts at Lowell, Justin D. Pearlman, Harvard Medical School
and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Thursday, Oct. 22, 1:30 - 3:30
5A
Papers: Flow Visualization II
-----------------------------
Visualization of Simulated Airflow in a Clean Room, Koji Koyamada, 
IBM Japan Ltd.

Flow Visualization as a Basic Tool to Investigate the Dynamics and 
Topology of Jets, Fernando Grinstein, U. R. Obeysekare, Naval 
Research Laboratory, G. Patnaik, Berkeley Research Associates 

Constructing Stream Surfaces in Steady 3D Vector Fields, Jeff 
Hultquist, NASA Ames Research Center 

Visualizing Wind Velocities by Advecting Cloud Textures, Nelson 
Max, R. Crawfis, D. Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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5B
Papers: Visual Programming
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Logical Time in Visualizations Produced by Parallel Programs, Joydip 
Kundu, Janice Cuny, Alfred Hough, University of Massachusetts

Visual Query Specification for a Multimedia DBMS, Daniel Keim, 
University of Munich, Vincent Lum, Chinese University of Hong Kong

The State of the Art of Visual Languages for Visualization, John Rasure,
The University of New Mexico,  Chuck Hansen, Los Alamos National Lab 

Visualizing Code Profiling Line Oriented Statistics, Stephen Eick, 
Joseph Steffen, AT&T Bell Laboratories
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5C
Case Studies Session on the Environment
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Oceanography: Visualization of Seafloor Structures through 
Gravitational Accretion, Jim McLeod, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Atmospheres: Visualization Requirements in the Atmospheric and 
Environmental Sciences, Theresa Rhyne, Unisys Corporation, Mike Botts,
University of Alabama, Eric Pepke, Florida State University, William
Hibbard, University of Wisconsin, Lloyd Treinish, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center

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Thursday, Oct. 22, 3:45 - 5:45
6A
Papers: Visualization Software Systems
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VISAGE:  An Object-Oriented Scientific Visualization System, William 
Schroeder, G. D. Montanaro, C. Volpe, GE Corporate Research and 
Development 

A Scientific Visualization Renderer, Bruce Lucas, IBM - Thomas J. 
Watson Research Center

A Characterization of the Scientific Data Analysis Process, Rebecca 
Springmeyer, Meera M. Blattner, Nelson L. Max, Lawrence Livermore 
National Lab

SuperGlue:  A Programming Environment for Scientific Visualization,
Jeff Hultquist,  Eric Raible, NASA Ames Research Center
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6B
Papers: Visualization Techniques
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Color, Change, and Control for Quantitative Data Display, Penny 
Rheingans, University of North Carolina

Surface Curvature Analysis Using Color, Robert Jerard, Lee Seidenberg,
University of New Hampshire, John Magewick, Ford Motor Company

Visualization of Fuzzy Data Using Generalized Animation, Nahum 
Gershon, The MITRE Corporation

Visualization for the Document Space, Xia Lin, Pace University
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6C
Panel: Real Virtual Environments Applications - Now
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Chair: Paul Breen, The MITRE Corporation
Panel Members:
Bradford Smith, University of San Francisco, David Zeltzer, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Georges G. Grinstein, University of Massachusetts
at Lowell, David W. Mizell, Boeing Computer Systems, Richard M. Satava,
Silas B. Hays Army Hospital, and Michael M. Stephens, Computer
Sciences Corporation
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Friday, Oct. 23, 8:30 - 10:00
7A
Papers: Virtual Reality & Multimedia
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Auto Design of Virtual Worlds for Visualizing Multivariate Relations,
Clifford Beshers, Steven Feiner, Columbia University

Virtual Spacetime:  An Environment for the Visualization of Curved 
Spacetimes via Geodesic Flows, Steve Bryson, NASA Ames Research Center

Network Video Device Control, David Nadeau, Michael J. Bailey, San 
Diego Supercomputer Center
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7B
Papers: Visualization Methods
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Volume Warping, Thomas True, Brown University, John Hughes

Visualization of Second Order Tensor Fields and Matrix Data, Thierry 
Delmarcelle, Lambertus Hesselink, Stanford University

Visualization of High Resolution Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Finite 
Element Analyses, Mark Christon, Thomas Spelce, Lawrence 
Livermore National Lab
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7C
Panel: Visualization in the Neurosciences: Utility in Research, 
Training and Clinical Practice
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Chair: Stuart A. Tobet, Harvard Program in Neuroscience
Panel Members:
Joan C. King, Tufts University School of Medicine, Steven L. Wertheim,
Harvard Medical School, and Frank H. Duffy, Children's Hospital, Boston
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Friday, Oct. 23, 10:15 - 12:15
8A
Papers: Terrain Visualization
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Optimizing Triangulations by Curvature Equalization, Lori Scarlatos,
Grumman Data Systems, Theo Pavlidis, State University of New York 
at Stony Brook

A Voxel-Based, Forward Projection Algorithm for Rendering Surface 
and Volumetric Data, John Wright, Julia Hsieh, Hughes Training, Inc.

Interactive Terrain Rendering and Volume Visualization on the 
Princeton Engine, James Matey, Jim Kaba, Gordon Stoll, Herb Taylor, 
Pat Hanrahan, David Sarnoff Research Center

Visualizing N- Dimensional Implications of Two-Dimensional Design 
Decisions, Stephen Ervin, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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8B
Case Studies Session on Fluid Dynamics
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Classical CFD: Visualizing Classical Problems in CFD, Norman Zabusky, 
Rutgers University

Weather: Simulation of Remotely Sensed Cloud Imagery, Maureen Cianciolo, 
TASC

Hydrodynamics: Visualizing a Three Dimensional Hydrodynamics
Model, Charles Jones, USACE Waterways Experiment Station
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8C
Panel: Object-Oriented, Dataflow Visualization Systems -- A Paradigm 
Shift?
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Chair: Bill Ribarsky, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panel Members:
Bob Brown, Silicon Graphics Inc., Richard Feldmann, National Institutes
of Health, Terry Myerson, International AVS Center at North Carolina 
Supercomputer Center, Stuart Smith, University of Massachusetts at Lowell,
and Lloyd Treinish, IBM J. Watson Research Center

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                  Conference Location: Boston
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Visualization '92 will be held October 19-23, 1992 at the Boston Park 
Plaza Hotel & Towers in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference will be 
held during the peak of New England's fall season -- come and see the 
beautiful colors of the falling leaves.

Located in the heart of historic Back Bay and overlooking the 
picturesque Public Gardens and Boston Common, the Boston Park Plaza 
Hotel recalls the grand hotels of yesteryear.  A first-class hotel 
with 977 rooms, the Park Plaza is just a short walk from the boutiques 
and galleries of Newbury Street, the exclusive shops at Copley Place, 
the Theater District, Prudential Center, Hynes Convention Center, and 
the Waterfront.

New England's largest city, Boston has something for everyone.  You 
can visit famous Revolutionary War sites on the Freedon Trail, as well 
as Paul Revere's house, the city's oldest structure.  Other sites to 
visit include the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Gardner 
Museum and the Boston Museum of Science.  Shoppers will enjoy the many 
shops on Newbury and Boylston Streets and Quincy Market, a lively 
waterfront development.  


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	    Boston Park Plaza Hotel
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	    Please call the hotel directly to make your reservation.
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	    Rate: $95 Single/$105 Double
	    This rate is available Saturday, Oct. 17, 1992 through
	    Saturday, October 24, 1992.

Reservations must be received by the hotel by Sunday, September 27. After
that date reservations will be confirmed on a space and rate available
basis only. All rooms are subject to a 9.7% tax. Reservations for arrival
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If plans change or you need to cancel, call 800-225-2008 before 4:00 pm EST
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given by Boston Park Plaza agent at point of cancellation.

Check-in is after 2:00 pm. Check-out is prior to 12 noon.



			
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Attendees will receive a 40% discount on Delta's unrestricted round-
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fares applies, provided all rules and conditions of the air fare are 
met. For information and reservations call 1-800-221-1212.  Attendees 
must make reservations under the group number Q12387 and the group 
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		      Visualization '92 Conference Committee
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Conference Co-Chairs:
   Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
   Bruce Brown, Oracle Corporation
Program Co-Chairs:
   R. Daniel Bergeron, University of New Hampshire
   Carol Hunter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Papers Co-Chairs:
   Gregory Nielson, Arizona State University
   Arie Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Panels Co-Chairs:
   Larry Rosenblum, Naval Research Laboratory
   Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation
Case Studies Co-Chairs:
   Lloyd Treinish, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
   Deborah Silver, Rutgers University
Tutorials Co-Chairs:
   Hikmet Senay, George Washington University
   Roni Yagel, Ohio State University
Workshop Co-Chairs:
   Mike Rhodes, Toshiba America Corporation
   Jerome Cox, Washington University
Videos Co-Chairs:
   Eric Grosse, AT&T Bell Laboratories
   Ed Council, Timberfield Systems
Demonstrations Co-Chairs:
   Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
   Paul Hazan, John Hopkins University
Science Advisory Group Chair:
   David Salzman, Harvard University
Publicity Co-Chairs:
   Jeff Beddow, Hennepin County
   Kay Howell, Naval Research Laboratory
Finance Chair:
   Michael Danchak, Hartford Graduate Center
Registration Chair:
   Haim Levkowitz, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
   Susan Stearman, Digital Equipment Corporation
   Stu Smith, University of Massachusetts at Lowell

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		     Visualization '92 Program Committee
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Mike Bailey, San Diego Supercomputing Center
H. Harlyn Baker, SRI International
Andreas Buja, Bellcore
Susan Chipman, Office of Naval Research
Donna Cox, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Rae A. Earnshaw, University of Leeds
Jose Encarnacao, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
William Feeney, San Diego State University
Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina
Richard S. Gallagher, Swanson Data Analysis
Michel Grave, ONERA
Hans Hagen, Universitaet Kaiserslautern
Roger D. Hersch, Peripheral Systems Lab, EPFL
Lambertus Hesselink, Stanford University
William Hibbard, University of Wisconsin - Madison
F.R.A. Hopgood, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories
Ron Jacob, Naval Research Laboratory
David Kamins, Application Visual Systems Inc.
Fred Kitson, Hewlett Packard Labs
Stanislav Klimenko, Institute for High Energy Physics
Tosiyasu Kunii, University of Tokyo
Gary Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Marc Levoy, Stanford University
Robert McDermott, Utah Supercomputer Institute, University of Utah
Ted Mihalisin, Mihalisin Associates, Inc.
Art Olson, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic
Richard L. Phillips, Los Alamos National Lab
Ron Pickett, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Jeffrey Posdamer, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Frits Post, TU Delft
Bill Ribarsky, Georgia Tech
Phil Robertson, Australia National University
Alyn Rockwood, Arizona State University
Bernice Rogowitz, IBM Research
Azriel Rosenfeld, University of Maryland
John Staudhammer, University of Florida
Ken Stewart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Werner Stuetzle, University of Washington
Craig Upson, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Don Vickers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Gary Watkins, Evans & Sutherland
Stephen Watson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Val Watson, NASA Ames Research Center
Elizabeth M. Wenzel, NASA Ames Research Center
Peter Wilson, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
Allan R. Wilks, AT&T Bell Laboratories
James M. Winget, Silicon Graphics, Inc.



-- 
Dr. Georges Grinstein - Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
University of Lowell					Lowell, MA 01854
Internet: grinstein@cs.ulowell.edu			Phone: (508) 934-3627 
UUCP: {(backbones),harvard,mit-eddie,et al}!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!grinstein