CyberGIS '12 Conference Program Outline

Conference Program Outline

Monday - August 6, 2012 (NCSA Room 1030)

8:00 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast, Registration
8:30 am - 8:45 am	Welcome Remarks Danny Powell (Executive Director, NCSA)
8:45 am - 9:15 am	Conference Overview CyberGIS Software Environment – An Overview Shaowen Wang
9:15 am - 10:15 am	CyberGIS Gateway A Hands-on Experience (40 min talk and hands-on) Anand Padmanabhan PGIST and Participatory Evaluation (20 min talk and demo) Mary Roderick and Timothy Nyerges
10:15 am - 10:30 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 am	GISolve Middleware GISolve Open Service APIs for CyberGIS Software Integration (talk, demo and hands-on) Yan Liu and Eric Shook
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	CyberGIS Toolkit USGS pRasterBlaster Map Re-projection (20 min talk and demo) Mike Finn, David Mattli, and Yan Liu Parallel Spatial Data I/O Library (20 min talk and demo) Babak Behzad and Anand Padmanabhan Parallel Optimal Choropleth Map Classification in PySAL (20 min talk) Robert Pahle and Philip Stephens
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm	Community Building Brainstorm Timothy Nyerges, facilitator Perspectives from Academia, Government and Industry Detailed Program Agenda
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Breakout Session Community/Interest Groups Detailed Program Agenda
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm	Coffee Break
4:00pm - 4:30 pm	Community/Interest Groups Detailed Program Agenda
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Synthesizing Discussions Detailed Program Agenda
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Dinner Reception @ NCSA

Tuesday - August 7, 2012 (Research Symposium) (NCSA Auditorium)

8:00 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast, Registration
8:30 am - 8:45 am	Welcome and Introduction Shaowen Wang
8:45 am - 9:30 am	Keynote Address Michael Goodchild
9:30 am - 10:15 am	Keynote Address Wen-mei Hwu
10:15 am - 10:30 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Progress and Tools (Chair: Budhendra Bhaduri) Luc Anselin, Sergio Rey, Myunghwa Hwang. Towards Open Standards for Spatial Analytical Operations - Progress Report on GeoDA Web Services. Jianya Gong, Tong Zhang, Huayi Wu. Building Integrated Cyberinfrastructure for GIScience through Geospatial Service Web.
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Lightning Talks (Chair: Budhendra Bhaduri) Ming-Hsiang Tsou. Mapping the Spatial Diffusion of Innovations in Cyberspace and the Distortion Effects via Different Social Media Communication Channels - SWARMS platform. Mary Roderick, Timothy Nyerges, Michalis Avraam. CyberGIS Implementation Considerations for Structured Participation Methods in Collaborative Problem Solving. Guofeng Cao, Shaowen Wang. A CyberGIS-Enabled Statistical Framework for Spatiotemporal Data Fusion. Michael Hodgson, April Hiscox, Shaowen Wang, Babak Behzad, Sara Flecher, Yan Liu, Anand Padmanabhan. Cartographic Modeling Language Approach for CyberGIS: A Demonstration with Footprint Models. Todd Mostak, Lex Berman. Utilizing GPU for CyberGIS Visualizations of Social Media - GPU Processing of Twitter feeds.
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Insights and Perspectives (Chair: Nancy R. Wilkins-Diehr) Shawn Newsam. Georeferenced Social Multimedia as Volunteered Geographic Information. James Cheshire, Mike Batty. The Role of CyberGIS in Analysing Urban Data.
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Lightning Talks (Chair: Nancy R. Wilkins-Diehr) Philip Greenwood, Ivo Widjaja, William Voorsluys, Jos Koetsier, Martin Tomko, Richard Sinnott. Supporting Web-based Scientific Spatial Data Exploration and Analysis - AURIN. Ola Ahlqvist, David Massey, Kiril Vatev. CyberGIS and Online Map games. Xuan Shi. Cyberinfrastructure for Scalable and High Performance Geospatial Computation. Yu-Feng F. Lin, Donald A. Keefer, and Philip M. Graff. The Development of CyberGIS Applications for Interactions between Surface Water and Groundwater at Dynamic Spatial and Temporal Scales. Martin Charlton, Paul Lewis, Conor P. McElhinney, Timothy McCarthy. Mobile LiDAR: A Data Management Challenge.
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Coffee Break
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Strategic Directions (Chair: E. Lynn Usery) Mark Gahegan. The Unique Qualities, and Responsibilities, of a Geographical Cyber-Infrastructure. Mei-Po Kwan. Big Data Challenges for the Analysis of Human Space-Time Behavior.
4:45 pm - 6:00 pm	Panel Discussion (Chair: Shaowen Wang)
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Poster Session (Chair: Anand Padmanabhan) Visualization Demos Conference Reception @ NCSA

Wednesday - August 8, 2012 (NCSA Auditorium)

8:00 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast, Registration
	Introduction
8:30 am - 9:30 am	Welcome Remarks Robert Easter (President, University of Illinois) Debasish Dutta (Dean of the Graduate College and Interim Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Daniel S. Katz (Program Director, OD/OCI, National Science Foundation)
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Keynote Address Daniel E. Atkins
10:30 am - 10:45 am	Coffee Break
	Plenary Addresses (Chair: Luc Anselin)
10:45 am - 11:15 am	State of CyberGIS Shaowen Wang
11:15 am - 11:45 am	Plenary Address E. Lynn Usery
11:45 am - 12:15 pm	Plenary Address Dawn Wright
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm	Tour of National Petascale Computing Facility (NPCF)
	CyberGIS Showcases (Chair: Timothy Nyerges)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	A CyberGIS Approach to Digital Humanities and Social Sciences: The World of Textual Geography and a Case Study of Wikipedia’s History of the World Kalev Leetaru, Eric Shook, and Shaowen Wang
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Integration OpenTopography into CyberGIS Gateway Enabled by GISolve - An Application Driven Approach Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Anand Padmanabhan, and Myunghwa Hwang
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	A Parallelized Cartographic Modeling Language (CML)-Based Solution for Flux Footprint Modeling Michael Hodgson and Yan Liu
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm	Coffee Break
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm	Panel: Science of CyberGIS (Chair: Michael Goodchild)
5:45 pm - 6:15 pm	Award Ceremony

Thursday - August 9, 2012 (NCSA Room 1040) (Internal Project Meeting)

8:00 am - 9:00 am	Breakfast, Registration
9:00 am - 10:15 am	Welcome to Project Team - Technical Meeting NSF CyberGIS Project : Where Are We & Where Do We Want to Be?
10:15 am - 10:30 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Open Discussion
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Synthesis of the Technical Meeting
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Planning for Project Year 3
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm	Reception for the Project Team