On-Stage Conversations and Workshop Program [Show all presenters]

Visual Thinking in Complex Systems

2D, 3D, 4D,nD: How Far Can We Go?

Print Media and Graphical Explanations

Visual Thinking in Physics

The Moving Image: What Do We Learn from Simulations, Modeling, and Animation?

The Written Word

Rethinking our Tools

Visual Thinking in Biology

The Sublime in Art and Science

Connecting with Computer Science

Wrap-up and Open Discussion

Workshop Breakout Sessions

• Small, interdisciplinary working groups shared their own work and discovered the visual commonalities among disciplines. Groups worked together to meet specific challenges such as: How to represent scale? Temporality? Multi-dimensions? Abstractions? How to visually represent specific concepts?

On-Stage Conversations and Workshop Program [Hide all presenters]

Visual Thinking in Complex Systems

• Drew Endy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Felice Frankel (moderator), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University
• George Whitesides, Harvard University

2D, 3D, 4D,nD: How Far Can We Go?

• Dominique Brodbeck, Macrofocus GmbH
• Ben Fry, Harvard University
• Ralph Kahn, NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology
• David Laidlaw (moderator), Brown University

Print Media and Graphical Explanations

• David Constantine, The New York Times
• Larry Gonick, Freelance Illustrator
• Rebecca Perry, Los Angeles Times
• Rosalind Reid (moderator), American Scientist

Visual Thinking in Physics

• George Barbastathis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Michael Berry, Bristol University
• Melissa Franklin, Harvard University
• David Kaiser (moderator), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Moving Image: What Do We Learn from Simulations, Modeling, and Animation?

• Donna Cox, University of Illinois
• Alyssa Goodman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Art Olson, The Scripps Research Institute
• Barbara Tversky (moderator), Stanford University

The Written Word

• Peter Atkins, University of Oxford
• Phil Ball, Nature
• Marcia Bartusiak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Margaret Wertheim (moderator), Institute for Figuring

Rethinking our Tools

• Don Ingber (moderator), Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
• Scott Kim, Puzzlemaster/Shufflebrain
• Stefan Sagmeister, Sagmeister Inc.

Visual Thinking in Biology

• Roger Brent, Molecular Sciences Institute
• Angela DePace (moderator), University of California Berkeley
• Michael Elowitz, California Institute of Technology
• Pamela Silver, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School

The Sublime in Art and Science

• Iain Boyd Whyte (moderator), University of Edinburgh
• Antonio Damasio, University of Iowa
• Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University
• Barbara Stafford, University of Chicago

Connecting with Computer Science

• Maneesh Agrawala, Microsoft Research
• Frédo Durand (moderator), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Pat Hanrahan, Standord University
• Hanspeter Pfister, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
• David Salesin, University of Washington

Wrap-up and Open Discussion

• Joanne Aizenberg, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
• Angela DePace, University of California Berkeley
• Stefan Sagmeister, Sagmeister, Inc.
• George Whitesides (moderator), Harvard University

Workshop Breakout Sessions

• Small, interdisciplinary working groups will "show and tell" their own work and discover the visual commonalities among disciplines. Groups will work together to meet specific challenges such as: How to represent scale? Temporality? Multi-dimensions? Abstractions? How to visually represent specific concepts?
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• Maneesh Agrawala, Microsoft Research
• Barry Aprison, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
• Joanne Aizenberg, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
• George Barbastathis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Carla Barr, Art Center College of Design
• Virginia Bowman, Sony Pictures Imageworks
• Dominique Brodbeck, Macrofocus GmbH
• John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• K.C. Cole, Los Angeles Times
• David Constantine, The New York Times
• Donna Cox, University of Illinois
• Frédo Durand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Drew Endy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Melissa Franklin, Harvard University
• Larry Gonick, Freelance Illustrator
• Alyssa Goodman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Zareh Gorjian, NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology
• Roy Gould, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Alex Griswold, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Karen Jacobsen, In Situ Scientific Illustration
• Trevor Johnston, Freelance Illustrator
• David Laidlaw, Brown University
• Kathy McLean, Independent Exhibitions
• Sean McNaugton, Syracuse University
• Maryam Modjaz, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Hanspeter Pfister, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
• Rosalind Reid, American Scientist
• Pamela Silver, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School
• Hank Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jeremy Stoller, California Science Center
• Zak Stone, Harvard University
• Karl Tate, Freelance Graphic Designer
• Ross Toro, Los Angeles Times