The Revolution Continues!!! The 4th Annual International AVS Users Conference and Exhibition April 19-21, 1995 Boston, Massachusetts Boston Marriott Copley Place ******************* PLEASE NOTE! ********************* **** DEADLINE FOR RETURNING ATTENDEE REGISTRATION **** *** TO SAVE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT ($150) IS JAN 27TH!! ** ****************************************************** NOTE: Registration and hotel forms are included at the end of this file. Call J.R. Schuman Associates 617-642-1380 to register, request the appropriate forms, or to obtain a hard copy of the Advance Program. Their fax numer is 617-899-2099. The 1995 International AVS Users Conference is presented by Advanced Visual Systems Inc. and by the International AVS Center, a program of MCNC, in cooperation with the AVS Consortium. The AVS Consortium consists of the sponsors and affiliates of the International AVS Center. AVS Consortium Sponsors include Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Kubota Graphics Technology Inc., Fujitsu, and Sun Microsystems Inc. AVS Consortium Affiliates include Mobil Oil Corporation, and OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd. The 1995 Conference provides an international forum for AVS and Uniras users and developers to share information and exchange ideas. Advanced Visual Systems Inc. recently acquired Uniras, a Denmark- based supplier of visual data analysis and presentation graphics software and software development tools for scientists, engineers and programmers. The Conference and exhibition have been expanded this year to include the users of Uniras products. The Conference features technology-oriented exhibitions, lectures, panels, training sessions, a World Wide Web area and a video theater. Users will present examples and case studies on the use of AVS and Uniras products in a variety of application areas. PROCEEDINGS Advanced Visual Systems Inc. publishes a proceedings volume for distribution free of charge to Conference registrants. Additional copies of the proceedings may be purchased separately through Advanced Visual Systems Inc. after the Conference. TRAINING SESSIONS Three hands-on courses will be offered at the Conference by the two most experienced AVS training organizations available. At last year's Conference users expressed the need for more advanced training, and at AVS '95 we'll deliver! PANELS You'll have the opportunity to express your ideas and share them with leaders in many areas of technology. By coming to AVS '95, you'll contribute to future product directions and enhance the usage of technology in your field. Panelists provide informative discussion and debate on product and technology trends and viewpoints in the industry They provide a forum for discussion among users and industry experts. The panel topics are: Animation and Video Using AVS AVS in Medicine AVS Wizards Distributed, Parallel and Real-Time Visualization of Large Datasets Virtual Reality EXHIBITION Not only will AVS and Uniras products be shown and discussed at AVS '95, several of AVS Inc.'s most exciting business partners will display their products in the exhibition area. Come and learn how AVS operates on a variety of hardware platforms, see other software products that interface to AVS and Uniras products, and see for yourself some of the applications developed with AVS and Uniras. Exhibition admission is included as part of the AVS '95 registration fee. Exhibition-only registration will be available at the conference. For additional Exhibitor information and a copy of the exhibitor prospectus, contact Jim Aucoin at Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (617) 890-4300, email jim@avs.com. AVS VIDEO REVIEW THEATER AVS user videos from around the world are combined to create a review of the most interesting work in every discipline. The AVS video review dramatically demonstrates how AVS is being used in practice. To contribute work for this showing, contact Mike Pique at (619)-554-9775, email mp@scripps.edu. WORLD WIDE WEB AREA Forget the static poster exhibits of the past! Navigation around the Web is provided via Mosaic, the popular Internet browser software. An area will be set-up in the Exhibit Area. OTHER HIGHLIGHTS 3 Days of Lunches - Lunches will be served Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday in the Exhibitor Area, Thursday in the Ballroom and Friday in the Atrium. On Tuesday evening at 6:00pm a cocktail reception in the exhibitor area will take place. User Group Meeting - We will have a user group meeting Friday at 2:00pm. Boston Marathon - You'll be just in time for the Boston Marathon being held Monday the 17th of April. The finish line is just a few minutes from the Boston Marriott Copley Place. REGISTRATION Your registration fee for the 1995 AVS User Group Conference includes all official program activities, materials, coffee breaks, lunch on Monday and Tuesday, a copy of the Conference Proceedings, entrance to the AVS Video Review Theater and reception on Monday evening, and entrance to the Exhibition Hall. REGISTRATION DISCOUNTS / PROCEDURES Returning Attendees $50.00 off - If you are a returning attendee and register on or before 1/27/95 we will take off $50. Advance Registration $100.00 off - If you register on or before 2/17/95 we will take off $100. ADVANCE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION The Conference Registration Form, or a copy, must be submitted with full payment in order to reserve your space at the Conference. Advance registrations, postmarked on or before February 17, 1995, will receive a $100 discount. Registrations received after Feb. 17 will register at the regular rate. To qualify for a User Group Member Discount, you must be a current member of the AVS User Group PRIOR to April 22, 1995. If you would like to become a member and receive the automatic $50.00 discount for the Conference please contact Chuck Mosher at the IAC at (919) 248-9290, email chuck@ncsc.org prior to April 14, 1995. STUDENT DISCOUNT To qualify for a student discount, a registrant must submit a copy of a current ACM or IEEE student membership card or a copy of a current student identification card with the Registration Form. GOVERNMENT DISCOUNT: To qualify for a government discount, a registrant must submit a copy of a current government identification card with the Registration Form. TRAINING SESSIONS Space at the training sessions is limited and subject to availability. Please see Conference Registration Form for enrollment details and be sure to add the corresponding fees to your registration fee total. Training classes will be available starting Tuesday and running during the conference at a cost of $125. The classes that are available AVS5 Refresher, Writing AVS5 Modules, AVS5 Advanced Topics, AVS6 Hands-on, Porting AVS5 Nets to AVS6, Toolmaster Introduction and Gsharp Overview (no charge for Gsharp Overview). HOTEL RESERVATIONS The 1995 AVS User Group Conference will be held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel. The hotel is located in downtown Boston with Copley Place Shopping Mall attached to the hotel. Hotel rooms are limited at the conference rate please get your reservations in early. TO RESERVE A ROOM AT THE MARRIOTT Please call the Boston Marriott Copley Place at (617) 236-5800 or (800) 228-9290. Air Travel: Boston's Logan International Airport is serviced by most major airlines. Local Ground Transportation: Taxi service from Logan is readily available, with fares to the Marriott ranging from $8 to $20 depending on traffic. Designated pick up areas are located outside baggage claim in each airline terminal. Public transportation in Boston (MBTA) is convenient and fast, linking the Airport to all sections of the city via the Blue Line. A free shuttle bus connects all airline terminals. Standard local fare is $. 85. For more specific route information call 617-722-3200. For up-to-date local weather call (617) 936-1234. Suggested Dress: Casual business attire is suggested for the conference. Suits and ties are not required. QUESTIONS: Conference Related J.R. Schuman Associates 617-642-1380 User Group Membership or Technical/Program Related Chuck Mosher 919-248-9290, email chuck@ncsc.org AVS Video Review Theater Mike Pique 619-554-9775, email mp@scripps.edu World Wide Web Related Ken Flurchick 919-248-1100, email kenf@ncsc.org Exhibition or Training Related Jim Aucoin 617-890-4300, email jim@avs.com CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Technology Track: Hambleton Lord, ham@avs.com Developers Track: Howard Watkins & Steve Thorpe, hkw@intera.co.uk & thorpe@ncsc.org CFD/Engineering Track: Larry Schoof, lachoo@sandia.gov Research TRACK Chair: Chuck Hansen, hansen@acl.lanl.gov Environmental/Earth Sciences Track: Theresa Rhyne & Wes Bethel, trhyne@vislab.epa.gov & wes@mhl.lbl.gov Imaging Track: Todd Rodgers, tkrodgers@tasc.com Commercial Track: Graham Walker, graham.walker@bt-sys.bt.co.uk Oil & Gas Track: Mike Ray & Annette Walsh, mbray@dal.mobil.com & aawalsh@dal.mobil.com Medical Track: Marc Kessler, kessler@howell.ro.med.umich.edu TITLES OF TALKS, BY TRACK DEVELOPERS TRACK Chairs: Howard Watkins & Steve Thorpe Author: Mitchell Roth Title: AVS for the CRAY T3D Authors: Karen Woys and Mitchell Roth Title: AVS Optimization for CRAY Y-MP Vector Processing Authors: Upul R. Obeysekare, Chas J. Williams, and Robert O. Rosenberg Title: An Application for Visualizing Molecular Dynamics Data Developed under AVS/Express Author: Walter Schmeing, VISTEC Software GmbH, Berlin, Germany Title: Examining Large Datasets using DBFLD (Field Database) Author: Dr S. A. Khaddaj Title: An Interactive Design Tool for Scientific Simulations Authors: Howard Watkins, John O'Sullivan, David Heath, Peter Yerburgh Title: AVS/Express Case Study Author: Raymond E. Flanery Jr. Title: AVS5 and POSTGRES: Large Scale Data Analysis Authors: Raymond E. Flanery Jr., Dr. Bart D. Semeraro Title: AVS/EXPRESS and PVM: Gas and Oil National Information Infrastructure (GO-NII) Project Authors: Erin N. Thornton, Gary D. Black, Tom L. Keller, Karen L. Schuchart, Chance R. Younkin, and Donald R. Jones Title: Creating a Scientific Environment with AVS/Express Authors: David A. Goughnour, Jeffrey A. Hallett Title: Developing The Next Generation Nuclear Medical Imaging System With AVS/Express CFD/ENGINEERING TRACK Chair: Larry Schoof Authors: G.D. KERBEL, J.L. MILOVICH, and D.E. SHUMAKER, R.E. WALTZ A. VERLO Title: Interactive Scientific Exploration of Tokamak Gyro-Landau Fluid Turbulence In A Visual Immersion Environment Author: David A. Clark Title: Near Real-Time Integration of Supercomputing and Rig Tests through Heterogeneous Distributed On-Line Computation and AVS Authors: Victor M. Fernandez, Norman J. Zabusky, Smitha Bhat, Deborah Silver, and Shi-Yi Chen Title: Visualization and feature extraction in isotropic Navier-Stokes turbulence RESEARCH TRACK Chair: Chuck Hansen Authors: Upul Obeysekare, Fernando Grinstein, Gopal Patnaik, and Chas Williams Title: Real-Time Visual Control of Numerical Simulation Authors: G. Padoan, A. Pregarz, and E. Priolo Title: Spectral Element Modeling of Seismic Wave Propagation Author: Wes Bethel Title: Modular Virtual Reality Visualization Tools Authors: Andy R. Haas, Richard A. Strelitz, Ph.D., William S. Branham, Daniel M. Sheehan, Ph.D. Title: Quantitative Analysis of Reconstructed Rodent Embryos Authors: Wolfgang Kraske, Chris Asano Title: Real Time MPP 3-D Volumetric Visualization: Medical Imaging on the Cray T3D with AVS ENVIRONMENTAL/EARTH SCIENCES TRACK Chairs: Theresa Rhyne & Wes Bethel Author: Joachim Biercamp Title: AVS in Climate Research Author: Philip C. Chen Title: CLIMATE SIMULATION STUDY III: Supercomputing and Data Visualization Authors: Jennifer Horsman, Wes Bethel Title: Methods of Constructing a 3D Geological Model from Scatter Data IMAGING TRACK Chair: Todd Rodgers Author: Clifford A. Paiva Title: Maximum Detection Range of Target Edge as a Function of Variable Precipitation and Cultural Obscurants Authors: Johan Wiklund, Hans Knutsson Title: A Generalized Convolver Module Author: Marquess Lewis Title: Radiometric and Geometric Adjustment of Airborne Spectrometer Data within the AVS Environment Author: Stephen L. Schultz Title: Image Processing in the Spatial and Frequency Domains COMMERCIAL TRACK Chair: Graham Walker Author: Dr Graham Walker Title: Challenges in Information Visualization Authors: Charles Falkenberg, Mike Achenbach, Ravi Kulkarni, Vince Patrick Title: An AVS Interface to the Aurora(TM) Dataserver Author: Wayne Haidle Title: Correlating Time-Based Power System Parameters via Preprocessing UNIGRAPH Command File Templates OIL & GAS TRACK Chairs: Mike Ray & Annette Walsh Authors: Dong Ju Choi, Mitchell Roth Title: Visualization of Multi-component Saturation Distributions in Oil Reservoir Models Authors: Paolo Ruffo, Livia Bazzana, Ernesto Della Rossa, and Rita Colombo Title: Use of AVS in the Uncertainty Analysis of the Depth Structure of an Idrocarbon Reservoir Author: Dr. David Pottinger Title: Developing an Oil Reservoir Simulator Post-processor Using agX/Toolmaster & UIM/X MEDICAL TRACK Chair: Marc Kessler Authors: Loyd M. Myers, Jeff Prothero, James F. Brinkley Title: Volume Rendering of Multi-Spectral MR Data for Brain Language Site Mapping Author: Ted Beatie Title: Comparison of 2D and 3D segmentation techniques for volume determination in CT phantoms Authors: M.L. Kessler, J.J. Kim, N. Dogan, and D.L. McShan Title: An AVS-based System for Optimization of Conformal Radiotherapy Treatment Plans Author: Chris Siegel Title: Creating 3D Models from Medical Data using AVS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVS 95 Conference Registration Form April 19-21, 1995 Boston Marriott Copley Place A Photocopy of this form must be mailed or faxed to J.R. Schuman Associates. Mail or fax by February 17, 1995 to take advantage of the Advance Registration Discount. Please type or print clearly. Returning attendees receive an additional $50 off their registration fee if they register by January 27, 1995. Photocopy this form, and any additional forms if necessary. First Name________________________________________________________ (as they will appear on your badge) Last Name:_________________________________ Title:_______________________________________ Company:____________________________________________________________ Address:_____________________________________________________________ City:_________________________________________________________________ State:_____________________ Zip:______________________ Country:_____________________ E-mail Address:_________________________________________ Phone:______________________________ Fax:_________________________________ Registration Deadlines Returning attendee discount 1/27/95 Advance 2/17/95 Hotel 3/17/95 Fax: your registration to J.R. Schuman Associates at 617-890-2099 Mail: your registration to: 1995 International AVS User and Developer Conference, c/o J.R. Schuman Associates, 800 South St Ste. 255, Waltham, MA 02154 USA Call: J.R. Schuman Associates at 617-890-642-1380 Payment Options Please return this form with full payment or it cannot be processed. Mail or fax your registration form with credit card payments. Fees must be paid in U.S. funds by check or money order. Checks or money orders must be made payable to Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Confirmation: All paid registrations received by March 17 will receive a written confirmation. After March 17, you may contact the AVS Conference Registration line at (617) 890-1380 if you wish to confirm. Cancellations and Substitutions: All cancellations and substitutions must be made in writing and mailed or faxed to J.R. Schuman Associates at the address or fax number listed above. Cancellations must be received by March 17 in writing and will receive a 100% refund. There will be no refunds after March 17. All refunds will be sent after the conclusion of the Conference. Substitutions may be made at anytime. Conference fees Return Attendees Advance Regular $50 off Before 1/27/95 Before 2/17/95 After 2/18/95 Commercial Attendees Amount AVS User Group Member $475 $525 $625 _______ Non-Member $525 $575 $675 _______ Student/Government Attendees: AVS User Group Member $375 $425 $525 _______ Non-Member $425 $475 $575 _______ Training Classes $125.00_____________________ Total Conference Registration Enclosed _____________ __Visa ___Mastercard ____American Express ___Check or money order Card Number______________________________________________________________________ _____ Print Name of Cardholder_________________________________________________Expiration Date_________ Signature___________________________________________________________________ ______ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVS95: Hotel Registration Form April 19-21, 1995, Boston Marriott Copley Place Attendees must register directly with the Marriott. You may call the hotel directly or fax or mail this form to the Reservations Department. Please indicate your affliction with the AVS Conference when making your reservation in order to receive the special conference hotel rate. To assure proper room registration for your stay, please complete this reservation request and return before March 17, 1995. Requests received after this date will be accepted based on room availability. Rooms available at the $139 conference rate are limited and are on a first come first served basis. Call: Boston Marriott Copley Place 617-236-5800 or 1-800-228-9290 For the hearing impaired call: TDD 1-800-228-7014 Fax: your registration to the Boston Marriott Copley Place at 617-236-5885 Mail: your registration to: Boston Marriott Copley Place Reservations Dept. 110 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02116 USA Ground Transport: For information on shuttle bus service please call Airways Transport at 617-267-2981 Name____________________________________________________________ Title_____________________________________________________________ Company________________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________ City_____________________________State________________ZIP____________ Country____________________________________ Phone________________________________Fax___________________________ Arrival Date____________Departure Date_______________ Sharing With____________________________________________________________ Accommodations Rate Extra Person Charge Per Person Daily Rate for Single or Double $139 +$10 $_____ Sales Tax of 9.7% (subject to change) $_____ Total One Night Deposit $_____ __I desire a wheelchair-accessible room. ___I prefer a non-smoking room __I would like to receive rental and catering information on reserving a hospitality suite. One-Night Deposit Payment All reservation requests must be accompanied by a one-night room deposit plus 9.7% tax by check, or credit cards listed below. Requests received without a one-night deposit or guarantee will not be honored. Non-guaranteed reservations are subject to cancellation if not guaranteed prior to arrival. __Check for first night's deposit and tax enclosed. __Charge my credit card for first night's deposit and tax (check one). __Visa __Mastercard __AMEX Card Number___________________________________________________________ Print Name of Cardholder________________________________________________ Signature________________________________Expiration_____________________ Please Note: All hotel accounts are payable at departure, subject to prior credit arrangements at time of registration. Check in time will be after 4:00 p.m. on date of arrival. Check out time is 12:00 noon. No charge for children under 18 years of age when sharing room with parent in existing bedding.