The DOD User’s Group Conference 2006 is coming up in June, this year in Denver, Colorado. At my boss’s advice, I submitted two papers this year:

  1. ezViz – a Cross Platform, Open Source Visualization Tool . This is an update to the paper, by the same name, that I presented last year at UGC05, updated with the new features of ezViz and with some real case studies of real user data. This is a major thrust here at ERDC now, so it was the “more important” of the 2 papers.
  2. Visualization of Time-Dependant, Quasi-Streamwise Vortex Tubes in a Bubble-Laden Turbulent Boundary Layer over a Flat Plate . Yeah, I didn’t come up with that name. This is a rehashing of some older data (that the lab won an award for), using new visualization methods presented by some folks at Viz05 (their paper: Opening the Can of Worms: An Exploration Tool for Vortical Flows ).  In their paper they were restricted to uniform rectilinear grids, so we expanded it to non-uniform grids and time-varying data.  It’s pretty neat stuff (very math intensive), but of lesser importance than the ezViz paper.

Well, the UGC06 website has finally been updated with an agenda, and now I’m a bit confused.  The “important” ezViz paper was relegated down to a Poster, while the “less important” vortex-tube paper was accepted as a presentation.  However, it was not lumped in with the rest of the Visualization presentations, it was placed as one of the last talks on the last day.  For those of you that don’t know, that’s basically a death knell for any conference presentation, everyone will leave early & be on their way home by then.

Apparently the number of submissions was an all-time record high this year, so they’ve got 5 rooms fully booked simultaneously with presentations, and a huge number of posters.  Word around the water cooler is that I’m not the only one a bit upset, as alot of major papers were turned into Posters.  Posters are 1) expensive, and 2) alot of hard work.  These guys don’t know much about making posters and would really rather just write the papers and presentations Powerpoint & LaTex (Yes, these guys really do use LaTex, how awesome is that?).  So maybe things will change before the conference comes around.  We’re already talking about switching out my 2 talks (Turn the vortex tubes into a poster, and the ezViz one into a presentation) since it’s the more important of the two, then maybe we can convince the committee to let us present in the “viz block”.
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