UK AVS+UNIRAS USER GROUP Annual Conference 2001 The University of Birmingham 5-6 November 2001

The Annual Conference

The 2001 annual conference was organised by the UK AVS+ UNIRAS User Group and held at the University of Birmingham Conference Park from Monday 5th to Tuesday 6th November 2001. The conference is aimed at both academic and commercial AVS and UNIRAS users. Advanced Visual Systems were, as always, well represented by key management and technical personnel, so the conference provided a valuable opportunity to find out about new developments.

The conference ran from mid-morning on the 5th to mid-afternoon on the 6th and included the conference dinner. It consisted of papers with demonstrations of hardware and software in an adjoining room. The conference fee of £200 included full catering, accommodation and all conference sessions.

The venue

The conference was held in Hornton Grange, on the University of Birmingham Conference Park. Hornton Grange was built during the early years of this century as an Edwardian style gentleman's residence which now stands in its own attractive and peaceful grounds within the Conference Park. It has its own bar and Conservatory Dining Room with 32 modern and highly specified en-suite bedrooms in the adjacent North and South wings. The Conference Park itself is located very close to the University campus. As well as offering ample free car parking it has good rail links with Birmingham International Airport and the rest of the UK.

Programme

The Keynote Talk was given by Terry Hewitt, director of the Manchester Visualization Centre who discussed some of the perils and pitfalls, as well as the benfits, of data visualisation. Speakers from AVS gave a range of talks focusing on current enhancements to the AVS products and an indication of future directions and capabilities. Other presentations were from the International AVS Centre and end-users of the products discussing some of the wide range of areas in which visualisation plays a key role.

The Conference Programme page has details of the program and abstracts.