We cordially invite you to participate in Ozviz 2009 which will be held on the 3rd and 4th of December 2009 and will be hosted by the Monash e-Research Centre at Monash University, Clayton, Victoria.

The workshop will feature 22 presentations by researchers from the earth sciences, the life sciences, astronomy, neuroimaging, urban modelling, mathematics and computer science. A range of techniques and technologies will be presented, including biological visualisation, volum e renderin g, 3D reconstruction, image processing, scene reconstruction, GPU rendering, animation and immersive visualisation.

The workshop is free to everyone who registers. There will be a workshop dinner organised on the 3rd which we encourage you to attend. The cost of dinner will be approximately $40.

We are pleased to announce the keynote speaker will be Professor Rob Lewis, foundation chair of X-ray and Synchrotron Physics at Monash University and the Director of the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science. We expect synchrotron science to be a major driver of imaging and visualisation in the Clayton district and across Australia, and we are privileged to have Professor Lewis present his vision.

There will be a joint session on 3D bioimaging in conjunction with the Live Cell Imaging Workshop (LCI09) organised by Monash Micro Imaging. This session, held on the 4th of December, will feature a keynote presentation by Dr Marius Messerli, CEO of Bitplane which develops the Imaris toolbox widely used for microscopy visualisation, and other speakers who utilise 3D visualisation and analysis.

THE AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON TOUR
We have organised a tour of The Australian Synchrotron on Friday the 4th. Please note that places for this tour are limited so please register promptly if you are interested in attending.

A full schedule will be made available on the website:
http://sites.google.com/site/ozvizworkshop/ozviz-2009

REGISTRATION:
To register please email ozviz2009@adm.monash.edu.au before 27/11 with the following information.
We require everyone to register to catering purposes.



OzViz 2009 is supported by Xenon - http://www.xenon.com.au/

THURSDAY 3RD DECEMBER
(to be finalised)

9:00	Registration
9:30	Professor Paul Bonnington	Monash University	Welcome
9:45	Professor Rob Lewis	Monash University	Keynote
10:40	Morning tea
11:00	Sherry Mayo, Tim Gureyev	CSIRO	X-ray micro-tomography data and image processing at CSIRO
11:30	Richard Beare	Monash University and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Blood flow investigations using magnetic resonance imaging
12:00	Martin Lackmann	Monash University	Development of Virtual Microscopy and Image Analysis Platforms using Scientific Workflows
12:30	Lunch
1:10	Tomasz Bednarz, Con Caris and Jeremy Thompson.	CSIRO Exploration of Mining, QCAT	Non-invasive, simultaneous temperature and velocity measurements using liquid crystal slurry - visualization and image processing methods in convective flows using combined PIT and PIV techniques
1:40	Volker Kuchelmeister	UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research	Universal capture through stereographic multi-perspective recording and scene reconstruction
2:10	Etsuko Uno	WEHI	Diabetes Type 1 and Insulin Production
2:40	Bernard Meade	University of Melbourne	Optiportal developments at The University of Melbourne
	Afternoon tea
3:30	Stuart Ramsden, Vanessa Robins, Stephen Hyde	ANU	Data Mining Geometric Periodic Structures with EPINET
4:00	Amr Hassan, Christopher Fluke and David Barnes	Swinburne University	GPU-Based Volume Rendering of Noisy Multi-Spectral Astronomical Data
4:30	Jeremy Yuille, Hugh Macdonald, Reuben Stanton and Stephen Viller	Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) and RMIT University	The Social Life of Visualization
5:00	Philip Greenwood, Jesse Sago and Vivi Chau	ASPECT Studios Pty Ltd – Digital Studio	Using game engines for real time 3D visualisation in planning and infrastructure
6:30?	Workshop Dinner

FRIDAY 4RD DECEMBER
(to be finalised)

	3D Bioimaging Shared session with MMI Live Cell Imaging
9:00	Marius Messerli	Bitplane	Keynote Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Live Cell Behavior with Imaris
9:50	Ajay Limaye	ANU	Drishti - A volume exploration and presentation tool
10:20	Kieran Short	Monash University	Imaging and analysis of epithelial branching in developing mouse organs.
10:50	Morning tea
11:00	Derek Gerstmann	UWA	Visualisation for BioImaging and Nanotechnology at the CMCA
11:30	Rob Bryson-Richardson	Monash University	Visualising Embryonic Development
12:00	Ajay Limaye	ANU	New ways of exploration and presentation in Drishti
12:30	Lunch
1:00	Paul Bourke	UWA	Digital Fulldome as an Immersive Environment: Projects during 2009
1:30	Margarete Jadamec, Oliver Kreylos, Magali Billen, Louise Kellogg, Louis Moresi, Steve Quenette, Megan Hough, John Mansour and Owen Kaluza	Monash University	Three-dimensional visualisation in Geodynamics: Techniques for data interactivity and exploration
2:00	Tony Pack	Geoscience Australia	TBA
2:30	Afternoon tea
2:40	Owen L Kaluza, Louis Moresi, Dave R Stegman, Wendy G Mason, Margarete Jadamec and Steve Quenette	Monash University	Exploring the Underworld with gLucifer: Real-time and Interactive Visualisation for Geodynamic Simulations
3:10	David Warne, Joe Young and Ben Cumming	Queensland University of Technology	Visualisation of Groundwater Flow using Texture Based Visualisation Techniques
4:00	Synchrotron tour