Slides for many of the presentations can be downloaded by clicking the presentation title
| Day 1 - Thursday 29th October | |||
| Time | Topics | Summary | Presenter(s) |
| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee and Registration | Registration is located in upstairs in the Sir Denis Rooke building | Sharon Want |
| 10:30–11:00 | Welcome and introduction to vizNET | The first presentation will provide a whistle stop tour of the event and background to vizNET. | Roy Kalawsky (Loughborough University) |
| 11:00–12:00 | Challenges in visualization | A discussion of some of the current challenges in visualization gathered through vizNET. The discussion will include a 5-10 minute per person opportunity to explain who the attendees are, their background and any visualization challenges they face. | John O'Brien / Roy Kalwasky (Loughborough University) |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch | Served in the restaurant - plus the opportunity to see posters and other demos attendees wish to bring along | |
| 13:00–13:30 | Modes of Virtual Environments Integrated within Collaborative Environments | This presentation describes the timeline of large display virtual environments used by Manchester Visualization Centre and a few of the main applications of such systems. Moreover, it describes a few simple common modes of use as well as stages of development, categorising and explaining how best practice may be achieved. | Martin Turner (University of Manchester) |
| 13:30–14:00 | Interaction issues with high resolution displays | This presentation will focus on novel interaction techniques for Powerwalls, which speed up interaction by drastically reducing the precision that's required and are being evaluated using a transport visualization application. | Chris Rooney (Leeds) |
| 14:00–14:30 | Improving desktop visualization with GPU techniques | A presentation on the use of modern GPU techniques to improve the performance of desktop visualisation using freely available toolkits | John O'Brien |
| 14:30–15:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:00–16:00 | Showcase Demos | Live hands on demos of stereo visualization systems and software used within the vizNET centres | |
| 19:00 | Events Dinner | ||
| Day 2 - Friday 30th August | |||
| Time | Topics | Summary | Presenter(s) |
| 9:00–9:30 | Arrival – Coffee | Sir Denis Rooke building – ground floor | |
| 9:30–10:00 | Multivariate Data Visualisation | This presentation will demonstrate some of the data visualisation techniques that have been developed over the last 30 years. These techniques include parallel coordinates and the grand tour. I will outline the potential advantages these data visualisations can have over more conventional ones. | Benjamin Radburn-Smith (Science and Technology Facilities Council) |
| 10:00–11:00 | Remote Visualization Demonstration | Hands-on tutorial / workshop which will demonstrate how to use visualisation cluster, including information on using VNC, VirtualGL and IRIS Explorer. | Lakshmi Sastry (Science and Technology Facilities Council) |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30–12:30 | Practicalities and opportunities of Giga-Pixel displays | How to build a Powerwall, and a life saving application (cancer diagnosis). | Roy Ruddle (University of Leeds) |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch | Served in the restaurant | |
| 13:30–14:30 | Visualization using Terascale Resources (CRAY HECToR) | HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resources) is one of the largest and most ambitious high performance computing (HPC) initiatives in Europe. This presentation will discuss the use of visualization packages such as AVS Express with these reosurces. | George Leaver (University of Manchester) |
| 14:30–15:30 | vizNET Surgery Sessions | This session will give delegates a chance to discuss their visualization challenges in more depth with a panel of experts from the vizNET community. | Roy Kalawsky (Loughborough University) |
| 15:30 | Conference close | ||