Annual Meeting Agenda November 2004

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Logistics

Agenda

Monday, Nov 1

• Arrivals from Airport
• 8:00 PM Seek-Exec working dinner

Tuesday, Nov 2 Venue: KU Union and Biodiversity Research Center

• 8:00 Coffee (free continental breakfast at hotel or hot breakfast 2nd Fl Union Cafeteria)
• 8:30 Opening Plenary: brief working group presentations and discussion of progress-to-date
• Room: JAYHAWK, 5th Floor
• Kepler
• SMS / KR
• Williams, Villa/Krivov, Bowers, Ludaescher
• Taxon
• Kennedy (TDWG exchange schema), Stewart (SEEK taxon database and services), Thau (GUIDs, KR)
• BEAM
• EOT
• EcoGrid
• Usability issues (Downey)
• DISCUSSION
• 12:30 PM Lunch (1 hour, Union Cafeteria, 2nd floor)
• 1:30 Afternoon Breakout Sessions
• Rooms Available: CENTENNIAL (6th), GOVERNORS (5th), INTERNATIONAL (5th)
• Taxon
• KR
• 5:00 Finish
• 5:30 SEEK Demonstration session, Reception, Room: BRC Informatics Department
• 7:30 Dinner at your leisure, Downtown

Wednesday, Nov 3 Venue: KU Union

• 8:00 AM Coffee (free continental breakfast at hotel or hot breakfast 2nd Fl Union Cafeteria)
• 8:30 Breakout Sessions
• Rooms available: PINE (6th), WALNUT (6th), GOVERNORS (5th)
• AMS/Kepler
• Taxon
• 12:30 PM Lunch (1 hour, Union Cafeteria, 2nd floor)
• EOT Working Lunch (Bill Michener identifies victims)
• 1:30 Breakout Sessions
• Rooms available: PINE (6th), WALNUT (6th), GOVERNORS (5th)
• EcoGrid
• SMS
• 5:00 Finish
• 7:00 PM Group Banquet: Thai House, 700 block Massachusetts Street, Downtown Lawrence (EtOH: out-of-pocket)

Thursday, Nov 4 Venue: Dole Institute of Politics, West Campus

• 7:30 AM Transit from hotels to Dole Center
• 8:00 Coffee (free continental breakfast at hotel, breakfast bites at Dole Center)
• 8:30 Plenary
• Application integration of Taxon group
• How does taxon stuff integrate with EcoGrid, SMS, KR, etc. to be useful to case studies?
• Room: SIMONS CONFERENCE ROOM
• 12:30 PM Lunch (1 hour, Union Cafeteria, 2nd floor)
• 1:30 Plenary
• Technical needs for Ecological Niche Modeling case study
• Room: SIMONS CONFERENCE ROOM
• 5:00 Finish, transit to downtown, then dinner at your Leisure, Downtown Lawrence
• 7:00 Seek-Exec Dinner Meeting (No Leisure)

Friday, Nov 5 Venue: KU Union

• 8:00 AM Coffee (free continental breakfast at hotel or hot Breakfast 2nd Fl Union Cafeteria)
• 8:30 Plenary
• Technical needs for Biodiversity case study
• Room: KANSAS (6th)
• 12:30 PM Lunch (1 hour, Union Cafeteria, 2nd floor)
• 1:00 Closing Plenary
• Room: KANSAS
• Usability discussion
• Calendaring and other administrative business
• 3:30 Adjournment
• 5:30 and later, flights scheduled from Kansas City International

Guests

• Elizabeth Blood, NSF
• Sylvia Spengler, NSF
• Randy Butler
• John McGee