ACE97 Program and Schedule

[Doug Bigwood]

The ACE97 Program and Schedule (tentative) is now available
at http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000/ace97/ace97program.html.  A
copy is also appended to this message.  Note that the organizers
are looking for tutorial speakers for the following subjects: ACEDB
Query Language, Tablemaker, Map Displays, and the Sequence Display.
If you are willing to give a tutorial on one of these subjects, or are
willing to present a tutorial on a subject not listed in the program,
please contact Doug Bigwood at dbigwood at gig.usda.gov.

Also, some likely participants have been asking about registration for
the conference.  Dave Matthews is working feverishly to pin down the
exact costs and requirements and he hopes to have this information very
soon.  The organizers want to keep the costs low and thanks to funding
from USDA,NAL and Cornell we will be able to do this.  We will post a
message to this newsgroup when registration opens.  We do know that
registraton will close on July 7, so there will be plenty of time.

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ACE97 Program and Schedule

Summary: 

    July 7: Last day to Register 
    July 26: Arrival 
    July 27: Tutorials 
    July 28, 29: Conference 
    July 30 - August 8: Workshop 
    August 9: Meeting review and planning of ACE98 

Saturday, July 26 

Arrival. 

Sunday, July 27 

Tutorials (tentative) - there will be four slots, 2 morning and 2
afternoon - the
tutorials will be scheduled according to interest to minimize conflicts. 

    New Curators - How to Create an ACeDB Database. Sam Cartinhour 
    Advanced Curators - How to make use of ACeDB displays. (Unknown) 
        Part 1 - Map displays 
        Part 2 - Sequence display 
    An Introduction to Java and Applets. John Morris 
    ACeDB for Windows. Richard Bruskiewich 
    Setting up a WWW interface to ACEDB 
        Part 1 - Setting up an aceserver. Curt Jamison 
        Part 2 - Webace, A Web Interface for ACeDB databases - Steve
        Beckstrom-Sternberg 
    Acembly, Sequence Assembly Program - Jean Thierry-Mieg 
    GeneFinder and ACeDB - Richard Durbin 
    Querying 
        the ACEDB query language 
        tablemaker 

All day: Poster Setup 

Monday, July 28 
Opening remarks - Dave Matthews and Doug Bigwood 

Morning Program 

What's New with ACeDB - Richard Durbin and Jean Thierry-Mieg 

and others ... 

Afternoon Program 

more ... 

All day: Poster viewing 

Evening: Welcome Barbeque (transportation provided) 

Tuesday, July 29 

Morning Program 

Afternoon Program 

Panel Discussion: ACEDB - Where do we go from here? Moderator: Doug
Bigwood 

All day: Poster viewing 

Wednesday, July 30 

Morning 

Working Groups Convene 

Possible working groups (anyone will be able to form a working group) 

    Curators (build and enhance your databases) 
    Query Language 
    Comparative Map Displays 
    Java and ACEDB 
        Displays 
           Java Beans and components 
           New/Modified Displays 
        Client/Server communications 
        Java 1.1 features 
        More ... ??? 
    Object Brokering/Exchange 
    Documentation 
    Windows ACEDB 
    MacACE 
    Data verification and validation tools 

Afternoon 

Working groups report on direction the group will take for the rest of
the workshop 

Thursday, July 31 - Friday, August 8 

Morning 

Working Groups report on progress 

Tuesday, August 5 

18:00 - 21:00 - Banquet, Clark Hall 

Friday, August 8 

Afternoon 

Working Groups present and submit final reports 

Saturday, August 9 

Morning 

Meeting review and planning of next meeting