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UK AVS+UNIRAS USER GROUP

Annual Meeting
20th-21st November 2000
The University of Birmingham Conference Centre


Conference Programme

Monday 20th November
10:00 Coffee and Registration
10:55
Opening Remarks
John Blair-Fish (UAUUG Chair), Matt Cooper (UAUUG'2000 Programme Coordinator)
11:00
"AVS News and product Roadmap" (abstract) (biography)
Peter Kelly, Advanced Visual Systems (UK)
11:30
"OpenViz application development
Developing applications using AVS's new COM and Java Graphics Components"
(abstract).
Roger Fleuty, Advanced Visual Systems (UK).
12:00
"AVS/Express Update - Linux, Multi-pipe Edition, Version 5.1 Release" (abstract).
Jason Alldridge, Advanced Visual Systems (UK).
12:30
"OpenViz component development in CONTENTS" (abstract) (biography)
Toby Cheetham, Unilever, Port Sunlight Research Laboratories.
13:00
Lunch
14:00
"DLV" (abstract) (biography)
Dr. Barry Searle, CLRC: Daresbury laboratory.
14:30
"The visualization of a Three-Dimensional Mouse at different stages of embryonic development." (abstract) (biography).
Dr. Margaret Stark, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh
15:00
"GeoExpress 2000" (abstract) (biography)
Dr. Frank Arnott, IGM
15:30
"The importance of the quality of maps for representing data" (abstract) (biography)
Zoe Frogbrook and Margaret Oliver, University of Birmingham.
16:00
Tea & Demonstrations
16:30
"GSharp updates" (abstract) (biography).
John Stringer, AVS (UK)
17:00
"News from the International AVS Centre"
Andrew Dodd, International AVS Centre/Manchester Visualization Centre (abstract) (biography)
17:15
Annual General Meeting of the UK AVS+UNIRAS User Group.
To include "Elections to the UAUUG Executive Committee for 2000-2001".
Please submit nominations to UAUUG Chair: John Blair-Fish
18:00
Close
20:00
Dinner (wine provided by courtesy of AVS)

Tuesday 21st November
09:30
"AVS visualization software in medicine, meteorology and molecular dynamics"
Krzysztof Nowinski, Warsaw University, Poland (abstract) (biography).
10:00
"Hardware rendering using AVS/Express on Linux PC systems" (abstract) (biography).
James Perrin, Manchester Visualization Centre.
10:30
"Using AVS/Express for teaching Image Processing in a Postgraduate University Course" (abstract) (biography).
Peter I. Wilson, The University of Wolverhampton.
11:00
Coffee
11:30
"International AVS/Express Projects and Research Directions" (abstract) (biography).
Ian Curington, Director of Technical Marketing, Advanced Visual Systems Ltd.
12:30
Lunch
14:00
"Visualization of Climate change." (abstract) (biography)
Matt Cooper, Manchester Visualization Centre.
14:30
"Implementation of the Express Multi-Pipe edition" (abstract) (biography).
Paul Lever, Manchester Visualization Centre"
15:00
Best Talk Ballot Collection - see programme notes below.
15:10
"Question and answer session with AVS staff."
Your chance to ask about product futures, developments and generally complain about things.
15:40
Tea & Best Talk Presentation.
16:00
Close

Programme Notes
Dr. Matthew Cooper, UAUUG Programme Coordinator, 2000