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Tue., May 25th																																									Reg.
Wed., May 26th			Reg.				Op., Keyn.						B R E A K		RP 1						L U N C H								RP 2						B R .		CS 1						Visits 1
Thu., May 27th							RP 3								RP 4														CS 2								RP 5												Rec.
Fri., May 28th							RP 6								CS 3														RP 7, Cl.								Visits 2
Sat., May 29th							Trip to Wachau
Sun., May 30th
Mon., May 31st	EGVE '99
Tue., June 1st

Tuesday Registration	Tue., 17.00-19.00

Registration takes place at the conference venue.

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Wednesday, May 26th

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Wednesday Registration	Wed., 07.30-08.30

Registration takes place at the conference venue.

Symposium Opening and Keynote Address	Wed., 08.30-10.00

E. Gröller, W. Ribarsky: Symposium Opening Address
St. Eick (invited speaker): Visualization for Knowledge Workers (keynote address)

Research Papers 1 - Feature Tracking and Visualization Systems

Session Chair: Thomas Ertl	Wed., 10.30-12.00

• F. Reinders, F.H. Post, H.J.W. Spoelder (The Netherlands):
  Attribute-Based Feature Tracking
• A. Telea, J.J. van Wijk (The Netherlands):

Vission: An Object Oriented Dataflow System for Simulation and Visualization
• M. Bender, H. Hagen, A. Seck (Germany):

A Client-side Approach towards Platform Independent Molecular Visualization over the World Wide Web

Research Papers 2 - Medical Imaging

Session Chair: Steven Eick	Wed., 14.00-15.30

• B. Csebfalvi (Hungary):
  Fast Volume Rotation using Binary Shear-Warp Factorization
• D. Bartz, M. Skalej (Germany):

VIVENDI - A Virtual Ventricle Endoscopy System for Virtual Medicine
• L. Mroz, A. König, E. Gröller (Austria):

Real-Time Maximum Intensity Projection

Case Studies 1 - Flow, Meteorological, and Molecular Visualization

Session Chair: David Ebert	Wed., 16.00-17.30

• Th. Glau (Germany):
  Exploring Instationary Fluid Flows by Interactive Volume Movies
• H. Haase, M. Bock, E. Hergenröther, C. Knöpfle, H.-J. Koppert, F. Schröder, A. Trembilski, J. Weidenhausen (Germany):

Where Weather Meets the Eye -- A Case Study on a Wide Range of Meteorological Visualisations for Diverse Audiences
• P. Rheingans, S. Joshi (USA):

Visualization of Molecules with Positional Uncertainty

Lab visits 1	Wed., 17.30-19.00

Lab visits to the local Institute of CG and Imagination will be organized at the conference venue.

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Thursday, May 27th

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Research Papers 3 - Flow Visualization

Session Chair: Hans-Georg Pagendarm	Thu., 08.30-10.00

• W. de Leeuw, R. van Liere (The Netherlands):
  Visualization of Global Flow Structures Using Multiple Levels of Topology
• L. Khouas, Ch. Odet, D. Friboulet (France):

2D Vector Field Visualization Using furlike texture
• A. Sadarjoen, F.H. Post (The Netherlands):

Geometric Methods for Vortex Extraction

Research Papers 4 - Information Visualization

Session Chair: Charles (Chuck) Hansen	Thu., 10.30-12.00

• D.S. Ebert, R.M. Rohrer, C.D. Shaw, P. Panda, J.M. Kukla, D.A. Roberts (USA, Canada):

Procedural Shape Generation for Multi-dimensional Data Visualization
• I. Herman, M.S. Marshall, G. Melancon, D.J. Duke, M. Delest, J.-P. Domenger (The Netherlands, UK, France):

Skeletal Images as Visual Cues in Graph Visualization
• M. Alexa, W. Müller (Germany):
  Visualization by Examples: Mapping Data to Visual Representations using Few Correspondences

Case Studies 2 - Medical Applications

Session Chair: Helwig Löffelmann	Thu., 14.00-15.30

• C. Bajaj, I. Ihm, G. Koo, S. Park (USA, South Korea):
  Parallel Ray Casting of Visible Human on Distributed Memory Architectures
• C. Lürig, P. Hastreiter, C. Nimsky, T. Ertl (Germany):

Analysis and Visualization of the Brain Shift Phenomenon in Neurosurgery
• St. Walter, G. Straßmann, M. Schmitt (Germany):

Advances in Quality Control of Intraoperative Radiotherapy

Research Papers 5 - Large Data Sets and Scattered Data

Session Chair: Konrad Polthier	Thu., 16.00-17.30

• O. Kreylos, B. Hamann (USA, Germany):
  On Simulated Annealing and the Construction of Linear Spline Approximations for Scattered Data
• T. Udeshi, Ch.D. Hansen (USA):

Parallel Multipipe Rendering for Very Large Isosurface Visualization
• Z. Wartell, W. Ribarsky, L. Hodges (USA):

Efficient Ray Intersection for Visualization and Navigation of Global Terrain using Spheroidal Height-Augmented Quadtrees

Conference Reception and Social Event	Thu., 19.00-

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Friday, May 28th

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Research Papers 6 - Geometry and Grid Visualization

Session Chair: William Ribarsky	Fri., 08.30-10.00

• K. Polthier, M. Schmies (Germany):
  Geodesic Flow on Polyhedral Surfaces
• T. Gerstner, M. Rumpf, U. Weikard (Germany):

A Comparison of Error Indicators on Nested Grids for Multilevel Visualization
• C. Teitzel, T. Ertl (Germany):

New Approaches for Particle Tracing on Sparse Grids

Case Studies 3 - Information Visualization and Web-based Visualization

Session Chair: Leonid Dimitrov	Fri., 10.30-12.00

• H. Gall, M. Jazayeri, C. Riva (Austria, Finland):
  Application of Information Visualization to the Analysis of Software Release History
• T. He (USA):

Internet-Based Front-End to Network Simulator
• M. Fiege, G. Scheuermann, M. Münchhofen, H. Hagen (Germany):

Visualization of Grinding Processes

Research Papers 7 - Volume Visualization

Session Chair: Eduard Gröller	Fri., 14.00-15.30

• X. Tong, W. Wang, W. Tsang, Z. Tang (China, Hong Kong):
  Efficiently Rendering Large Volume Data Using Texture Mapping Hardware
• J. Clyne, J.M. Dennis (USA):

Interactive Direct Volume Rendering of Time-Varying Data
• K. Kim, A. Pang (USA):

A Methodology for Comparing Direct Volume Rendering Algorithms Using a Projection-Based Data Level Approach

Closing Address	Fri., 15.45-16.00

E. Gröller, W. Ribarsky: Symposium Closing Address

Lab visits 2	Fri., 16.00-17.30

Lab visits to the local Institute of CG and Imagination will be organized at the conference venue.

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Saturday, May 29th

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Trip to Wachau	Sat., 08.30-17.30

The trip to Wachau will be organized at the conference venue.

Helwig Löffelmann & Kei Nam Tsoi (Joe), 1998-1999, mailto:helwig@cg.tuwien.ac.at & mailto:joe@cg.tuwien.ac.at.