Initiative in Innovative Computing Seminar Series Wednesday, November 15, 2006; 4:00pm **Please note the date change.** Felice Frankel, Senior Research Fellow, Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University Seminar Title: Your Visual Representations of Science: Are They Lost in Translation? Abstract In recent years, the science community is finally paying more attention to the way it visually expresses its data and scientific concepts. Many publications now are showing collections of examples of graphics, however, most are neither written by people who make those representations, nor do they provide thoughtful standards specifically relevant to the research community. Such exercises can be enormously helpful to begin to think about general approaches to graphical presentation of data, but vast specific challenges in the visual expression of science remain unsolved. This conversation with the audience will not present a manifesto on the “right” way to represent science. It will simply raise questions and encourage further discussion. I’ll show examples from my own efforts, including the not so successful ones, and other figures and images already published in the scientific literature. The talk will remind us that representations are translations of various forms of data into visual expressions, and that we have to make decisions during the process—preferably the right ones. Date and Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2006; 4:00pm; Refreshments at 3:45pm Location: 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Parking: Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. A map is available on line at http:// iic.harvard.edu/contactphp. Upcoming IIC seminars Thursday, November 30, 2006 – Panel Discussion: Future of Computer Intensive Science in the U.S.; Dr. Daniel Reed and Dr. Sangtae Kim Seminar Series schedule is available on the IIC website – http:// iic.harvard.edu/events.php. The website will be updated often with additional information and seminars. All IIC seminars will be held at the 60 Oxford Street Building, Room 330 unless otherwise noted. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars