Visual analysis is defined to be the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visualizations. The goal of visual analysis is to enable the understanding of massive datasets. Such datasets arise in science, engineering and commerce, as well as intelligence analysis and emergency response. Analyzing large amounts of information is a major intellectual challenge as well as a key technology for homeland security. The emerging field of visual analysis is the synthesis of many ideas from otherwise disparate fields including human-computer interaction, scientific and information visualization, statistical graphics and mathematical visualization, and geographic information systems and cartography.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together computer scientists and mathematicians to discuss mathematical and computational problems involved in visual analysis. A secondary goal is to engage the mathematical community and introduce them to this application area.

Schedule

Monday, October 16
  8:30 -  9:00 Registration
  9:00 -  9:15 Opening remarks: Pat Hanrahan and Larry Rosenblum
  9:15 -10:00 Jim Thomas: The Challenges of Visual Analytics
10:30 -12:30 Supporting Interaction:
                      William Cleveland
                      Robert Gentleman
                      Muthu Muthukrishnan
                      Suresh Venkatasubramanian
                      Emmanuel Candes
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
  2:00 - 4:00 Finding Patterns:
                      Peter Jones
                      Vin de Silva
                      Francois Meyer
                      Naoki Saito
                      Michael Mahoney
  4:00 - 5:00 Demonstrations

Tuesday, October 17
  9:00 -  9:30 Nancy Chinchor: The Needs of Analysts
  9:30 -10:00 Leland Wilkinson: Visions of Visual Analysis
10:30 -12:30 Integrating Hetereogenous Data Sources:
                      Sanda Harabagiu
                      John Byrne
                      Jean-Michel Pomerade
                      Christian Posse
                      Guy Lebanon
12:30 -  2:00 Lunch
  2:00 -  4:00 Smart Visual Analysis:
                      Leland Wilkinson
                      Jock Mackinlay
                      Jim Arvo
                      Amy Braverman
                      Dan Carr
  4:00 -  4:30 Break
  4:30 -  5:30 Panel: Findings and Recommendations
                      Pat Hanrahan
                      Nancy Chinchor
                      Sanda Harabigiu
                      Peter Jones
                      William Cleveland
                      Leland Wilkinson


Potential topics to be discussed include:

• Logical reasoning
• Knowledge representations and ontologies
• Probabilistic reasoning
• Natural language processing
• Imaging
• Computational statistics
• Machine learning
• Analysis of high-dimensional spaces
• Information theory
• Graphs and networks
• Time series analysis and change detection

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: KF0000. The cut-off date for reservations is September 15, 2006.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available. The following Group Code should be entered in the "Comment" field when booking through our Website. Group Code = CGMS33.
Please note: The Original Queen room type does not have an in-room T1 connection, but we do have WIFI available in our main lobby area. The cut-off date for reservations is September 26, 2006.

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