Frontiers in Visualisation and Human-Computer Interaction '97
"Visualising the Future of the Life Sciences"
The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK.
10th and 11th December, 1997
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Conference Theme
This two day conference will provide an outstanding opportunity to hear
some of the world's leading speakers in the related areas of human-
computer interaction and visualisation.
Review talks on the current uses of visualisation in the biosciences.
An arena for professionals in the biosciences and pharmacology to meet
with the leading graphics and interaction experts and to develop new
ideas and synergies.
Hence a major Conference Theme could be expressed as "How can
Visualisation be used to extract Information and Knowledge from the
Data of these Sciences?"
Keynote Speakers on Visualisation
The two keynote speakers are:
Professor Andries van Dam, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., University Professor
of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science, Brown
University, Providence, RI and
Prof. Dr. Jose Luis Encarnacao, Professor Technical University of
Darmstadt and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer
Graphics in Darmstadt.
Both speakers have been visionary pioneers in establishing the
discipline of computer graphics, Van Dam being a founder of SIGGRAPH
and Encarnacao being the driving force behind the founding of
EUROGRAPHICS.
Invited Speakers
Professor Paolo Zanella, Head of the European Bioinformatics Institute
and Chair in the Faculty of Sciences, Department of Informatics of the
University of Geneva.
Dr. Jonathan K.C. Knowles, formerly Director of Glaxo Wellcome Research
Europe and now Director of Global Research of F. Hoffmann-La Roche.
Dr. Detlev Kroemker, Head of the Animation and HD-Image Communication
Department of the Frauenhofer Institute for Computer Graphics.
Dr. Jean-Francis Balaguer, Technology Manager for 3D Graphics, artemedia
online, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Professor Philip E. Bourne, Senior Staff Scientist at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center, an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department
of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego, and an
Adjunct Senior Scientist at the Burnham Institute.
Dr. Michael Berman, General Manager of Silicon Graphics Biomedical Ltd.,
a subsidiary of SGI based in Jerusalem, Israel.
Dr. Alan Robinson, Visualisation Support for the BioStandards Initiative
at the European Bioinformatics Institute.
John Wise, currently Head of IT at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund,
soon to be Head of Non-Clinical Development Information Management at
Roche.
Dr. Chris Jones, who is currently on sabbatical leave at the European
Bioinformatics Institute from CERN where he has been responsible for
most IT services including a virtual reality project prototyping the
next major accelerator and experiments for the year 2005.
Conference Programme
The Conference Agenda will cover:
Frontiers in 3D Human Interactions
Applications of Virtual Reality
Distributed Computer-Supported Collaborative Working, CSCW-VR
Visualisation in the Biosciences
Panel discussion on the Conference Theme of how visualisation
could be used to extract knowledge from the data
Live Demonstrations of the state of the art of Visualisation,
including 3D stereo projection in the auditorium and
high speed link to Darmstadt
There will also be an opportunity for poster submissions and a trade
show.
Conference Location
The Conference will take place in the newly completed conference
facilities at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in the grounds of
Hinxton Hall, Cambridge, UK.
The campus is the site of The European Bioinformatics Institute, The
Sanger Centre and the UK MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource
Centre.
The Conference Banquet will take place in the Dining Hall of King's
College, Cambridge.
Conference Registration
The Closing Date for early registration and submission of abstracts is
10th November, 1997. Late registration will be possible from the 11th
November, however the registration fee will increase by 50 GBP.
Registration forms are available at the conference web site:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/fiv97/
Frontiers in Visualisation '97 is supported by the Astra Bioinformatics
Centre.
Requests for further information and questions should be addressed to
Chris Jones (Chris.Jones@cern.ch) or Alan J. Robinson (alan@ebi.ac.uk).
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Alan J. Robinson Tel:+44-(0)1223 494625
EMBL Outstation Fax:+44-(0)1223 494468
European Bioinformatics Institute Email: alan@ebi.ac.uk
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge,
CB10 1RQ, UK http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/
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