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The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis) cordially invites you to join us for the next talk in our invited speakers series: “Art and Science: A partnership catalyzing discovery in biomedicine” Bang Wong Creative Director, Broad Institute (MIT & Harvard) Friday, January 20, 2017 10:30-11:30am Snell Library 90, Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave Boston MA, 02115 Coffee and pastries will be served. Abstract: The unprecedented scale and resolution of data generated by the biomedical research community hold tremendous potential to inform our understanding and treatment of disease. The challenge is to ensure that technical and non-technical researchers can access, use and learn from this wealth of data and analytical resources. I will present examples of tools developed at the Broad Institute that draw on art and design to enable scientific discovery. About the speaker: Bang Wong is the creative director of the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His work focuses on the design and development of computation-visualization tools to meet the analytical challenges posed by biomedical data. He leads the data visualization initiative at the Broad and is the founding author of Points of View published by Nature Methods, a series of articles that focus on the fundamental aspects of data presentation in science. About NUVis: The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis)<http://nuvis.neu.edu> is a new interdisciplinary cross-university initiative to support the university’s research efforts in visualization and to connect faculty, researchers, and students across campus to foster a visualization community. Northeastern University’s interdisciplinary focus and structure is an ideal environment for such an interdisciplinary field of study, and the goal of NUVis, funded through a collaboration between the College of Arts, Media and Design and the College of Computer and Information Science, is to continue to foster and grow this important area of research. NUVis sponsors talks and symposia including a bi-weekly seminar, connects faculty and students through its online portal, provides resources to support visualization related research at the university through avenues including workshops and library sponsored open office hours, and hosts and organizes community building events including hackathons and student research poster exhibitions.including workshops and library sponsored open office hours, and hosts and organizes community building events including hackathons and student research poster exhibitions. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the NUVIS-LIST list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NUVIS-LIST