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Many thanks for those who submitted abstracts. The following schedule is a tentative program for the workshop.

Thursday, November 3, 2005
8:00 am Registration
8:30 am Welcome
8:45 am M.Watzke, K.Arcand: Opening Discussion, Collaboration & Sharing Resources
9:15 am F.Summers: Press Release Images, Virtual Observatories, and Web Services (PPT 4.34M)
10:00 - 10:15 am A.Goodman: Communicating Astronomy Graphically: COMPLETE, the IIC and the NVO (PPT 15.8M), linked movies
10:15 - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am L.L.Christensen & R.Hurt: ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator v.2 and its Metadata Tools (PPT 7.49M)
11:15 - 12:00 pm T.Rector: A Philosophy for Image Creation
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:30 pm Z.Levay: Multi-wavelength, Multi-observatory Compositing (PPT 5.58M)
1:30 - 2:15 pm L.Frattare: Image Processing on a Tight Budget
(PPT 46.77M)
2:15 - 3:00 pm R.Hurt: Seeing Infrared: Two Years of Spitzer Visualization
(PPT 17.35M), linked movies
3:00 - 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:30 pm Special Panel Presentation: A Meeting with the Media
Representatives from National Geographic, Discovery Communications/The Science Channel & Boston Globe
5:30/6:00 pm Field Trip to the Museum of Science
6:00 - 6:30 pm B.Preston: ViewSpace: Getting Your Sci-Viz Directly Into Free-Choice Learning Environments (PPT 1.00M)
6:30 pm Optional banquet at the Boston Museum of Science with the 6 Years of Science with Chandra Symposium attendees. Included is private viewing of the museum's special exhibit Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination.


Friday, November 4, 2005
8:30 - 9:30 am K.Turner: Needs of Planetariums & Related Education Programs (PPT 3.94M)
9:30 - 10:15 am Open Discussion on "Formats": HDTV - who's doing it now?
Telestreaming, Mpeg2, Betacam?
10:15 - 10:30 am Break
10:30 - 11:30 am M.Weiss: A Peek into Chandra's Illustrated World/Universe (PPT 3.83M)
11:30 - 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:00 pm A.Hobart: Science in Motion (PDF 8.06M)
2:00 - 2:45 pm Steve Ragalevsky: Apple Representative Discusses Podcasting (PDF 2.02M)
2:45 - 3:30 pm F.Summers: Accuracy & Aesthetics: Scientific Visualizations Using Hollywood Tools (PPT 3.79M)
3:30 - 4:00 pm Conclusion

Note: For hands-on displays, PC or Mac laptops would need to be brought by the participants in most cases. For presentations, a PC or Mac laptop & projector will be available.