| Sunday, August 5 |
| 2:00 - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Registration |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:15 - 9:30 pm | Session 1: Visualizing the Excitement of Science in the Classroom |
| Hans Bouma (Institute for Catalysis Research, NL) Discussion Leader |
| 7:15 pm | Loretta Jones (U. of Northern Colorado, US) Conference Chair
Welcome to the Conference and Announcements |
| 7:30 pm | Felice Frankel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)
Making good science look good: The power of images in communicating and teaching science and technology |
| 8:30 pm | Michael Vollmer (FH-Brandenburg-U. of Applied Sciences, Germany)
There is more to see than eyes can detect: Visualization of physical phenomena involving energy transfer |
| 9:30 pm | Welcome Reception, Willits-Hallowell Reception Room (cash bar) |
| Monday, August 6 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | Conference Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Session 2: Molecular Visualization in Teaching Chemistry |
| Peter Mahaffy (The King's University College, Edmonton, AB, Canada) Discussion Leader |
| 9:00 am | Ken Jordan (U. of Pittsburgh, US)
Visualization in undergraduate chemistry instruction and research |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am | Neil Stillings (Hampshire College, Amherst, US)
From the visual to the mental model and back: A cognitive perspective on molecular visualization |
| 11:30 am | Dorothy Gabel (Indiana U., US)
Making sense of chemistry through visualization of matter on the macroscopic, particle and symbolic levels |
| 12:30 - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Free time (informal discussions) |
| 4:30 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 1: Molecular Visualization, Prospect Hall Dining Room |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Session 3: Emerging from Flatland: New Visualization Technologies in Science Education |
| Lou Pignolet (U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, US) Discussion Leader |
| 7:30 pm | Andy Johnson (U. of Illinois at Chicago, US)
Walking the walk: Advanced visualization technology in elementary school science |
| 8:30 pm | Ghislain Deslongchamps and Rod Cooper (U. of New Brunswick, Canada)
Biocomputing in Drug Design I: Bridging two disciplines with MOE, Flash and Maple |
| 9:30 pm | Social hour, Prospect Hall Dining Room |
| Tuesday, August 7 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Session 4: Visualization for All Students |
| David Uttal (Northwestern U., US) Discussion Leader |
| 9:00 am | Louis Gomez (Northwestern U., US)
Ambitious Scientific Work in Everyday Urban Classrooms |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am | Marcia Linn (U. of California at Berkeley, US)
Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE): Making complex science visible |
| 11:30 am | Berend Smit (U. of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Visualization of abstract concepts: a blessing or deception? |
| 12:30 - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:30 pm | Free time (informal discussions) |
| 4:30 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 2: Visualization for Science and Education, Prospect Hall Dining Room |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Session 5: When Is Scientific Visualization Meaningful? |
| Miia Rannikmae (U. of Tartu, Estonia) Discussion Leader |
| 7:30 pm | Robert Tinker (TERC, US)
Models and hypermodels: Supporting student inquiry |
| 8:30 pm | Yehudit Judy Dori (Technion, Israel, currently at MIT, US)
Assessing the effects of visualization on students' understanding of scientific concepts |
| 9:30 | Social hour, Prospect Hall Dining Room |
| Wednesday, August 8 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Session 6: From the Big Bang to the Space Age: Visualization in Science Education |
| Pratibha Varma-Nelson (Xavier U., Chicago, US) Discussion Leader |
| 9:00 am | Clifford Matthews (U. of Illinois at Chicago, US)
Introduction |
| 9:05 am | Eric Chaisson (Tufts U., US)
Science Visualization Along the Arrow of Time |
| 9:45 am | James Walker (U. Massachusetts, US)
Teaching Evolution with Power Point |
| 10:20 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am | Ricardo Guerrero (U. Barcelona, Spain)
Red Ecosystems: Bacterial Photosynthesizers |
| 11:15 am | Lynn Margulis (U. Massachusetts, US)
Direct Access to the Microcosm: The Protist Revolution |
| 11:50 am | Clifford Matthews (U. of Illinois at Chicago, US)
Images of Enlightenment: Slanted Truths |
| 12:30 - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 -6:00 pm | Free time (informal discussions) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Session 7: The Future of Teaching and Learning with Scientific Visualization |
| Natalia Tarasova (Russia) Discussion Leader |
| 7:30 pm | Tony Rest (U. of Southampton, UK)
Customizing images to meet individual needs |
| 8:30 pm | Roy Tasker (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Visualization of the molecular world: Which students benefit most and why? |
| 9:30 pm | Conference Business Meeting, followed by Social Hour |
| Thursday, August 9 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Session 8: Visualizing the Future |
| Glenn Crosby (Washington State U., US) Discussion Leader |
| 9:00 am | Oleg Popov (Umeå U., Sweden)
Use of visualization in training prospective science teachers in different cultural contexts |
| 10:00 am | Attila Fözö (Ministry of Education, Hungary)
Chemistry education via the Internet |
| 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:20 am | Reinhard Demuth (IPN, University of Kiel, DE)
Nora Sabelli (Natl. Science Foundation, on leave to the U. of Texas, US)
Alex van Herk (Eindhoven University of Technology, NE)
Panel discussion on Where do we go from here? |
| 12:30 - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 6:00 pm | Free time (informal discussions) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 - 9:30 pm | Session 9: Redefining Visualization |
| Tuula Asunta (U. of Jyväskylä , Finland) Discussion Leader |
| 7:00 pm | Byron Rubin (U. of Rochester, NY, US)
Molecular Sculpture |
| 8:00 pm | Zafra Lerman and students (Columbia College, US)
Visualizing scientific concepts with new technologies and with no technologies (e.g.: dance) |
| 9:30 | Social Hour, Prospect Hall Dining Room |
| Friday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast and departure |