Hello, Even thought the deadline for early registration has passed, I thought I would take the opportunity to remind/inform ChemWeb suscribers of the conference that is being held at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge on the uses of visualisation for the life sciences on December 10th and 11th, 1997. The URL of the conference is: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/fiv97/ Speakers from the world of chemistry include Prof. Philip Bourne from the San Diego Supercomputer Center who has worked on developing MICE (Molecular Interactive Collaborative Environment), and Prof. Jurgen Brickmann of Darmstadt University who has done much to promote the use of VRML in chemistry. Registration fees start from 125 GBP and some accommodation is available on-site from 30 GBP for B&B. On-line registration is available from the web-pages (contact Martina Munzittu - martina@ebi.ac.uk about reserving on-site accommodation). (Registration currently stands at 150 delegates). For any queries about registration fee discounts or poster submissions, please do contact me. This promises to be an exciting conference! Yours sincerely, Alan Robinson. ============================================================ Alan J. Robinson Tel:+44-(0)1223 494625 EMBL Outstation Fax:+44-(0)1223 494468 European Bioinformatics Institute Email: alan@ebi.ac.uk Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1RQ, UK http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/ ============================================================ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Frontiers in Visualisation and Human-Computer Interaction '97 "Visualising the Future of the Life Sciences" The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK. 10th and 11th December, 1997 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/fiv97/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Conference Theme This two day conference will provide an outstanding opportunity to hear some of the world's leading speakers in the related areas of human- computer interaction and visualisation. Review talks on the current uses of visualisation in the biosciences. An arena for scientists and professionals in the biosciences and pharmacology to meet with the leading graphics and interaction experts and to develop new ideas and synergies. Hence a major Conference Theme could be expressed as "How can Visualisation be used to extract Information and Knowledge from the Data of these Sciences?" Keynote Speakers on Visualisation The two keynote speakers are: Professor Andries van Dam, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI and Prof. Dr. Jose Luis Encarnacao, Professor Technical University of Darmstadt and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt. Both speakers have been visionary pioneers in establishing the discipline of computer graphics, Van Dam being a founder of SIGGRAPH and Encarnacao being the driving force behind the founding of EUROGRAPHICS. Invited Speakers Professor Paolo Zanella, Head of the European Bioinformatics Institute and Chair in the Faculty of Sciences, Department of Informatics of the University of Geneva. Dr. Jonathan K.C. Knowles, formerly Director of Glaxo Wellcome Research Europe and now Director of Global Research of F. Hoffmann-La Roche. Dr. Detlev Kroemker, Head of the Animation and HD-Image Communication Department of the Frauenhofer Institute for Computer Graphics. Dr. Jean-Francis Balaguer, Technology Manager for 3D Graphics, artemedia online, Lausanne, Switzerland. Professor Philip E. Bourne, Senior Staff Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego, and an Adjunct Senior Scientist at the Burnham Institute. Professor Jurgen Brickmann of the Department of Physical Chemistry, Darmstadt University of Technology. Dr. Michael Berman, General Manager of Silicon Graphics Biomedical Ltd., a subsidiary of SGI based in Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Alan Robinson, Visualisation Support for the BioStandards Initiative at the European Bioinformatics Institute. John Wise, currently Head of IT at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, soon to be Head of Non-Clinical Development Information Management at Roche. Dr. Chris Jones, who is currently on sabbatical leave at the European Bioinformatics Institute from CERN where he has been responsible for most IT services including a virtual reality project prototyping the next major accelerator and experiments for the year 2005. Conference Programme The Conference Agenda will cover: Frontiers in 3D Human Interactions Applications of Virtual Reality Distributed Computer-Supported Collaborative Working, CSCW-VR Visualisation in the Biosciences Panel discussion on the Conference Theme of how visualisation could be used to extract knowledge from the data Live Demonstrations of the state of the art of Visualisation, including 3D stereo projection in the auditorium and high speed link to Darmstadt There will also be an opportunity for poster submissions and a trade show. Conference Location The Conference will take place in the newly completed conference facilities at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in the grounds of Hinxton Hall, Cambridge, UK. The campus is the site of The European Bioinformatics Institute, The Sanger Centre and the UK MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre. The Conference Banquet will take place in the Dining Hall of King's College, Cambridge. Conference Registration The Closing Date for early registration and submission of abstracts is 10th November, 1997. Late registration will be possible from the 11th November, however the registration fee will increase by 50 GBP. Registration forms are available at the conference web site: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/fiv97/ Frontiers in Visualisation '97 is supported by the Astra Bioinformatics Centre, Digital, Roche and Silicon Graphics. Requests for further information and questions should be addressed to Chris Jones (Chris.Jones@cern.ch) or Alan J. Robinson (alan@ebi.ac.uk). chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)