VCS 2019 at a glance
Friday, March 1
9:00 am Registration and light breakfast
Moody Center for the Arts Creative Open Studio
9:30 am Welcome and opening remarks
Moody Center for the Arts Lois Chiles Studio Theater
9:40 am Session 1–Figure and Data Visualization Design
Moody Center for the Arts Lois Chiles Studio Theater
9:40-10:40 am Bang Wong, Creative Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
10:40-11:00 am Coffee break
11:00-12:00 pm Karen Cheng, Professor of Visual Communication Design at University of Washington
12:00 pm Overview of afternoon sessions
Moody Center for the Arts Lois Chiles Studio Theater
12:05 pm Lunch by Local Foods
Moody Center for the Arts Creative Open Studio
1:30-4:30 pm Session 2–Hands-on visualization demonstrations
Linked exploratory data visualization using Glue
Alyssa Goodman, Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University
Data visualization using R
Hadley Wickham, Director of R studio
1:30-2:30 pm Session 2–Illustration for figures & covers
Moody Center for the Arts Lois Chiles Studio Theater
1:30-2:30 pm Mary O'Reilly, Owner of O'Reilly Science Art
Saturday, March 2
9:00 am Registration and light breakfast
Moody Center for the Arts Creative Open Studio
9:30 am Session 3–Keynote address by Alyssa Goodman, Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University
Moody Center for the Arts Lois Chiles Studio Theater
10:30 am Coffee break
Moody Center for the Arts Creative Open Studio
10:50 am Session 4–Panel: Mapping and Modeling
Moody Center for the Arts Lois Chiles Studio Theater
10:50-11:35 am Brian T. Jacobs, Senior graphics editor for National Geographic
11:35-12:10 pm Laura Kurgan, Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Center for
Spatial Research at Columbia University
12:10-12:30 pm Q&A
12:30 pm Lunch by Local Foods
Moody Center for the Arts Creative Open Studio
2:00 pm Session 5–Rice University Research Visualization Showcase
Moody Center for the Arts Lois Chiles Studio Theater
2:00-3:00 pm Farès el-Dahdah, Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Humanities Research
Center at Rice University
3:00-3:20 pm Coffee break
3:20-4:20 pm Kirsten L. Siebach, Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary
Sciences at Rice University
4:20 pm Closing remarks
Moody Center for the Arts Creative Open Studio
4:30 pm Reception
Moody Center for the Arts Central Gallery and Lantern Terrace