I hope some of you may be interested in this.....<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED:
A SYMPOSIUM ON VISUALIZING SCIENCE</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">February 22-23 2011</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mcleod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">University of Toronto </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Free Registration</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.scienceillustrated.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.scienceillustrated.ca/</a></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Science
Illustrated is a two day symposium dedicated to helping early-career scientists
(graduate students and post-doctoral fellows) of all disciplines visualize
their science better. The goal of the symposium is to help scientists create
better visualizations to do better research, as well as to communicate their
findings to their peers and public. Attendees will leave the symposium with a
practical sense of how to better visualize their data immediately.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sessions include: </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">* A keynote on
creating compelling scientific visualizations from Thomas Lucas,
Director/Producer of National Geographic's “Monster Black Holes” and NOVA's
“Hunt for the Supertwister”</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">* Find out about why
3D Visualization matters with Paul Salvini (Chief Technology Officer, Side
Effects Software)</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">* How to visualize
your data in non-traditional ways to do better science with Christopher Collins
(Assistant Professor, UoIT)</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">* Overview sessions
on moving past the most elementary visualizations and large dataset visualization</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">* Deconstruction
sessions of specific visualizations: Taking a compelling visualization, and
breaking down how the scientist constructed it step-by-step </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">* Basic Design
Bootcamp for Scientists: What do scientists need to know about graphic design?</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">* A Panel Discussion
on how scientific visualization helps engage the public including Jay Ingram
(Host of Daily Planet, Discovery Channel), Peter Calamai (Former National
Science Reporter, Toronto Star), and Reni Barlow (Executive Director of Youth
Science Canada)</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For speaker
information and registration, please visit: <a href="http://www.scienceillustrated.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.scienceillustrated.ca/</a></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Science Illustrated
is supported by: </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The SciNet Consortium</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Knowledge Media
Design Institute</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Dunlap Institute
for Astronomy & Astrophysics</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Dean's Student
Initiative Fund, Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto</font></p></div>
</div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Elizabeth Harper-Clark MA MSci<br>PhD Candidate, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, UofT<br>Sciences and Engineering Coordinator, Teaching Assistants' Training Program, UofT<br>
<br><a href="http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/%7Eh-clark" target="_blank">www.astro.utoronto.ca/~h-clark</a><br><a href="mailto:h-clark@cita.utoronto.ca" target="_blank">h-clark@cita.utoronto.ca</a><br>Astronomy office phone: +1-416-978-5759<br>