[Ieee_vis] Sackler Colloquium on Modelling and Visualizing Science and Technology Developments December 4-5 (Irvine, CA)

[Borner, Katy]

Dear all,
please consider joining us for the forthcoming Sackler Colloquium
sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, entitled Modelling
and Visualizing Science and Technology Developments. The colloquium will
be held at the National Academy of Sciences Beckman Center in Irvine, CA
on December 4-5, 2017.

NAS funded Sackler Colloquia address topics at the forefront of science
that are of broad intellectual interest. These Colloquia are typically
designed to cut across traditional scientific disciplines
(http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-colloquia/about-the-sackler-colloquia.html).
They provide unique opportunities for leading researchers in rapidly
developing fields to meet and interact with one another, and to thus
chart the future of interdisciplinary fields.

This colloquium brings together researchers and practitioners from
multiple disciplines to present, discuss, and advance computational
models and visualizations of science and technology (S&T). Existing
computational models are being applied by academia, government, and
industry to explore questions such as: What jobs will exist in ten years
and what career paths lead to success? Which types of institutions will
likely be most innovative in the future? How will the higher education
cost bubble burst affect these institutions? What funding strategies
have the highest return on investment? How will changing demographics,
alternative economic growth trajectories, and relationships among
nations impact answers to these and other questions? Large‐scale
datasets (e.g., publications, patents, funding, clinical trials, stock
market, social media data) can now be utilized to simulate the structure
and evolution of S&T.  Advances in computational power have created the
possibility of implementing scalable, empirically validated
computational models. However, because the databases are massive and
multidimensional, both the data and the models tend to exceed human
comprehension. How can advances in data visualizations be effectively
employed to communicate the data, the models, and the model results to
diverse stakeholder groups? Who will be the users of next generation
models and visualizations and what decisions will they be addressing.

Details are at
http://www.cvent.com/events/modeling-and-visualizing-science-and-technology-developments/event-summary-27b341fc9c0b4852b326d30a5b38c4b9.aspx

We welcome poster and flash-talk submissions.

Sunny regards,
k

-- 
Katy Borner
Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science
Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.iu.edu
Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org

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