MICA Workshop 16 Feb 2009

MICA Workshop: Science and Scholarship in Virtual Worlds (also: MODEST-9b)

Date: Monday, Feb. 16, 2009

Location: The MICA small amphitheater at StellaNova (70,206,31)

Schedule

All Times are SLT (SL Time = Pacific Time)

10:00 - 10:20 Piet Hut / Pema Pera (IAS & MICA): "From MODEST to MICA, and from a Vax to virtual worlds: a personal perspective"

10:20 - 10:40 Roundtable discussion: reviewing the progress over the past year

10:40 - 11:00 Steve McMillan / Lagrange Euler (Drexel & MICA), and others: "Stellar Dynamics in VWs: A Progress Report"

11:00 - 12:00 Roundtable discussion: "Towards more general WV environments: OpenSim, interoperability, and portability"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch break

2:00 - 2:20 Adrienne Gauthier / Ourania Fizgig (U. Az. & IYA2009): "International Year of Astronomy 2009"

2:20 - 2:30 Open discussion: "Broadening astronomy participation in SL"

2:30 - 2:50 Mike Pitman / Rez Tone (IBM): "Computational chemistry and visualization in VWs: a progress report"

2:50 - 3:10 Open discussion: "How to advance and facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations in SL and VWs?"

3:10 - 3:30 Coffee break

3:30 - 3:45 Matthew Graham / Matthew Grantham (Caltech & MICA): "Looking to the future: semantic web and virtualization of knowledge environments"

Oliver Goh (ParadigmPioneer Innovia in SL) spoke in text chat at this point. Here is a transcript of what he said: http://www.mica-vw.org/wiki/images/a/a9/MICAws_16Feb_2009_Oliver_Goh.pdf

3:45 - 4:15 Open discussion: "The future of virtual worlds in a broader context"

4:15 - 4:45 Roundtable discussion: "Art and science in SL"

4:45 - 5:00 George Djorgovski / Curious George (Caltech & MICA): "Where next? The future of MICA, and science and scholarship in virtual worlds"

5:00 Adjourn