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UC San Diego – University of the Aegean Cyber-Archaeology Workshop, October 31, 2014

Qualcomm Institute Room 4004

Agenda

 

Friday October 31, 2014 - WORKSHOP

 8:30 – 9:00 AM Bagels and Coffee

 9:00 – 9:15 AM

Tom Levy, Distinguished Professor, Anthropology; Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands; Associate Director, CISA3, UC San Diego

UCSD Cyber-Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean Today

 9:15 – 9:30 –

Ioannis Liritzis, Professor, Laboratory of Archaeometry (Director & Founder)

Dept. of Mediterranean Studies, Rhodes, Greece

Editor-in-Chief:  Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry (www.maajournal.com)

Cyber-Archaeometry: New Initiative, Strategic plans & Examples

 9:30 – 9:45 AM

Tom Gallant, Professor, Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History, Department of History, UC San Diego

“Social History and Historical Archaeology in Greece. The Kefalonia and Andros Project (KASHAP), 2012-2014."

 9:45 – 10:00 AM

Albert Yu-Min Lin, PhD,Research Scientist, National Geographic Explorer,  Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego

“The Big Eye in the Sky: Crowd Sourcing and Large Scale Analytics for Archaeology and Beyound.”

 10:00 – 10:30 AM – COFFEE

 10:30 -  10:45 AM

Jules Jaffe, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

“New Perspectives on Underwater Imaging.”

 10:45 – 11:00 AM

Michael Bianco, NSF IGERT Student, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego and Jules Jaffe

“Underwater 3D Recording and Reconstruction of Archaeological Sites and Other Submerged Features”

 11:00 – 11:15 AM

Tom DeFanti, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Director, Scientific Visualization Laboratory, Qualcomm Institute UCSD

SENSEI: a  Reconfigurable, High-Resolution, 4π Steradian,  Real-Time Camera

 11:15 – 11:30 AM

David Vanoni, NSF IGERT TEECH Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science, UCSD

“Augmented Reality (AR) for Digital Cultural Heritage: Examples from the Mediterranean.”

 11:30 – 11:45 AM

Kathleen Bennallack, NSF IGERT TEECH Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, UCSD

“Neolithic Stone Tools from the Southern Levant and pXRF Research”

 11:45 – 12:00 PM

Brady Liss, NSF IGERT TEECH Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, UCSD

“Recent Archaeometallurgical Investigations at Khirbat al-Jariya, Jordan”

 12:00 – 12:15 PM

Ian Jones, NSF IGERT TEECH Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, UCSD

“Hyper-spectral Imaging and the Archaeological Landscape of Faynan, Jordan.”

 12:15 – 12:30 PM

Dominique Rissolo, PhD, Visiting Researcher, CISA3, UC San Diego; Senior Program Officer, Director of Small Grants Programs, Waitt Foundation

“Integrated Site Recording Techniques for Underwater Cave Archaeology: A Case Study from Hoyo Negro, Mexico

 12:30 – 1:30 PM LUNCH

 1:30 – 2:00 PM - WAVE

Falko Kuester, Associate Professor, Department of Structural Engineering and Department of Computer Science, Director, CISA3, CAlit2 Professor of Visualization and Virtual Reality, UC San Diego

“The New WAVE - Wide-Angle Virtual Environment and Cyber-Archaeology”

 2:15 – 2:45 PM  -  WAVE

Vid Petrovic, NSF IGERT TEECH Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science

“New Perspectives on Point Clouds and Scientific Visualization for Cultural Heritage in the Mediterranean Basin”

 2:45 – 3:00 PM – Large Tile Display in WAVE Room

John Mangan , NSF IGERT TEECH Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science, UC San Diego

“MediaCommons Framework: An Immersive Storytelling Platform for Archaeology in the Mediterranean.”

 3:15 – 4:00 PM  Large Tile Display in WAVE

Matt Howland, NSF IGERT TEECH Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, UCSD

“Low Altitude Helium Balloon Platforms and Archaeology – New Vistas on 3D Mapping in the Middle East”

 4:00 – 5:00 PM Wrap-up Discussion, Plans for the Future (Back to Room 4004)