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Visual Analytics: The Next Five Years

VAC Consortium Meeting, August 18-19, 2009; Richland, WA

Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)

8:00am Registration Opens
8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:30am-9:00am Welcome & Opening Remarks Joe Kielman, Department of Homeland Security, Jim Thomas, NVAC Founding Director, and Richard May, NVAC Director
9:00am-10:00am Keynote Address “New Literacies for Intelligence in an Age of Complexity”
Carol Dumaine, Department of Energy
10:00am-10:30am Break
10:30am- Noon Panel Discussion: Emerging Needs for Visual Analytics
This moderated panel discussion will focus on emerging analytic needs and the implications for future visual analytics research and development.
Noon-1:00pm Lunch & Networking
1:00pm-2:00pm Panel Discussion: Center of Excellence
DHS has selected the new Center of Excellence for Command, Control, and Interoperability. This COE will be a continuing partner in building the future of visual analytics.
2:00pm-3:30pm Selected Project Briefings
Seven consortium members will give 10-minute descriptions of their research.
3:30pm-5:00pm Poster/Demo Session
Current technologies demonstrated by the NVAC, COE, and FODAVA teams and consortium members. Each demo team will have a few minutes to pitch their demo to the audience before moving into the demo space.
6:30pm-8:30pm Dinner at Kestrel Vintners
2890 Lee Road
Prosser, WA 99350 http://www.kestrelwines.com/

(Transportation to dinner is provided from hotels.)

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
EMSL

7:30am-8:00am Members Only Session
Full Breakfast
8:00am-9:30am Members Only: Charting the Course for the VAC Consortium
In keeping with our theme of looking toward the next five years of visual analytics, this interactive session will focus on defining the future for the VAC Consortium.
9:45am-10:45am Keynote Address “VAC 2025: Exascale Visual Analytics Meets Challenges of the Environment and the BRIC”
Lucy Nowell, Department of Energy
10:45am-12:15pm Panel Discussion: High-Priority Research Directions for Visual Analytics
A panel of visual analytics researchers will discuss research challenges and directions for the next five years.
12:15pm-1:15pm Lunch & Networking
1:15pm-1:45pm Highlighted Speaker “Phenomenology and Visual Analytics: Lessons from Topology, Molecular Biology, and Cosmology” Joe Kielman, Department of Homeland Security
1:45pm-2:45pm Capstone Speaker “Technology Transition Lessons Learned”
Jake Kolojejchick, Viz – General Dynamics C4 Systems
2:45pm-3:15pm Break
3:15pm-4:45pm Panel Discussion: Technology Transition Challenges and Opportunities
A panel of veterans of the technology transition process will share perspectives on what makes technology transition hard and what we can do to help make sure good visual analytics tools "cross the chasm" into widespread use.
4:45pm-5:00pm Closing Remarks Richard May, NVAC Director