3th High-End Visualization Workshop

Open issues in visualization with special concentration on applications in astrophysics, numerical relativity, computational fluid dynamics and high-performance computing.

This year's feature:

Public Releations and Public Outreach of Scientific Visualization

With the increasing establishment of computational sciences as new emerging field filling the gap between experimental and theoretical physics, the importance of scientific visualization for interpretation and study of numerical data is without question. But even beyond use in a purely scientific context, the potential and demand for purposes of public outreach is high. We intend to discuss the issues as to why scientists might be interested on visualizations that do not directly advance their own science, but serve to bring their field out of the ivory tower to the general public. Is this overhead worth the effort or shall a scientist rather stay on his own very focus? What are the demands from journalists and educationalists? What about the science in visualization itself? Would the public even appreciate scientifically correct visualizations or rather accept anything which looks "cool"? What resources can we find to transform and enhance scientific content into a pedagogically appropriate presentation? We intend to discuss these provocative questions in an informal, inspiring atmosphere.

Organization Committee

	Werner Benger <werner (at) cct.lsu.edu>
	Wolfgang Kapferer <wolfgang.e.kapferer (at) uibk.ac.at>
	Susanne Milde, Milde Marketing
	John Shalf, LBL
	Manuel Tiglio, LSU
	Erik Schnetter, LSU

External link: astro.uibk.ac.at/visworkshop2006/