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  Below is the current status of the conference program. 
  A highlighted name indicates that this
  person will present the paper at the conference, move your mouse over the name
  to see a picture of the speaker. You can also click on the title of a lecture
  to read its abstract.
 
Wednesday, October 24 - HAPTEX'07 Workshop
  
  
  | 8:00 | 
  Reception | 
   
  
  | 8:30 | 
  Opening | 
   
  
  | 8:40 | 
  
    
    
    Marco Fontana, Simone Marcheschi, Federico Tarri,  Fabio Salsedo, Massimo Bergamasco, Dennis Allerkamp, Guido Böttcher, Franz-Erich Wolter, Alan C. Brady, Jianguo Qu and Ian R. Summers  
    
    Christiane Luible, Minna Varheenmaa, Harriet Meinander and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann 
    
    
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  | 10:10 | 
  Coffee Break | 
   
  
  
  | 10:40 | 
  
    
    
    
    
    
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  | 12:10 | 
  Lunch | 
   
  
  | 13:30 | 
  
    
    
    
    
     Franziska Freyberger and Martin Kuschel 
    
    Nicolas Fauvet, Mehdi Ammi, Patrick Bourdot 
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  | 15:00 | 
  Coffee Break | 
   
  
  
  | 15:30 | 
  
    
    
    
    
    Renaud Ott, Vincent De Perrot, Daniel Thalmann and Frederic Vexo  
    
    Jun Murayama, Hiromi Shimizu, Chang S. Nam, Hiroko Satoh and Makoto Sato  
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  | 17:00 | 
  Closing | 
   
  
  | 17:10 | 
  End | 
   
 
Thursday, October 25 - Main Conference Day 1
During the main conference days (October 25+26), Bitmanagement will show a
really nice demonstration of BS Collaborate (MU), COLLADA and Physics-Support,
which can be seen during all coffee breaks.
 
  
  
  | 8:00 | 
  Reception | 
   
  
  
  | 8:30 | 
  Opening
     Klaus Hulek, Vice president for research of the Leibniz Universität Hannover 
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  | 8:45 | 
  
     Invited Lecture 
    
    
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  | 9:30 | 
  Coffee Break | 
   
  
  
  | 9:50 | 
  
    
        
    
    Nicolas Marion, Cyril Septseault, Alexandre Boudinot and Ronan Querrec  
        
    
    Andre Stork, Clemens-August Thole,  Stanislav Klimenko, Igor Nikitin, Lialia Nikitina and Yuri Astakhov  
        
    
    Matthias Becker 
        
    
    Natalya V. Sveshnikova and Dmitry V. Yurin 
        
    
        
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  | 12:00 | 
  Lunch | 
   
  
  
  | 13:00 | 
  
     Session 2a: Data Management and Artificial Intelligence 
    Chair: Alexei Sourin 
    
    
    
    
        
    
    
        
    
    
        
    
    Ray Jarvis, Nghia Ho, Julian Byrne Real     
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     Session 2b: Cyber Ethics + Cyber Security
 
  
    Chair: Stanislav Klimenko 
    
    
    
        
    
    
        
    
        
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  | 14:50 | 
  Coffee Break | 
   
  
  | 15:10 | 
    
    
    
    
     Tansu Alpcan, Christian Bauckhage and Evangelos Kotsovinos 
        
    
    Kenji Ohmori and Tosiyasu L. Kunii 
        
    
    Toshio Kodama, Tosiyasu L. Kunii and Yoichi Seki 
        
    NEW: "MultiUser World based on ISO Standard VRML/X3D technologies - Approach and Showcase" 
    Peter Schickel and Alexander Koerfer 
        
    
    Yuka Obu, Mizuaki Yamamoto, Tatsuhiro Yonekura, Masaru Kamada and Shusuke Okamoto     
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  | 17:30 | 
  End | 
   
 
  
  
  | 18:30 | 
  
   Cultural Event 
  As a special event for the conference participants, we will visit the
   "New Town Hall"
  of Hannover (in fact it was build in 1913). One
  highlight of this tour will be the wonderful view from the roof, reached
  by Europe's only diagonal dome lift.  
    
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  | 20:00 | 
  
   Conference Dinner 
  The Conference Dinner will take place in the "Restaurant am Leineschloss"
  and is not included in the conference fee.
  It can be booked at the reception for an additional EUR 35,- (drinks included).
   
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Friday, October 26 - Main Conference Day 2
  
  
  | 8:00 | 
  Reception | 
   
  
  
  | 8:30 | 
  
    
  
   Johannes Saam, Jon Macey and Jian J Zhang 
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
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  | 11:00 | 
  Coffee Break | 
   
  
  | 11:20 | 
  
     Invited Lecture: 
    
    
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  | 12:05 | 
  Lunch | 
   
  
  | 13:05 | 
  
   Session 5a: Network + Distributed Virtual Environments 
  Chair: Kenji Ohmori 
   
  
   
  
  
  Kazufumi Osato 
  
  
  
  
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   Session 5b: Virtual Reality + Human Interaction
 
  
  Chair: Olga Sourina 
  
          
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
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  | 15:25 | 
  Coffee Break | 
   
  
  | 15:50 | 
  
    
  
   
   Shuhong Xu, Yu Zhang and Chye Kiang Heng 
  
  Alexis Andre, Suguru Saito and Masayuki Nakajima 
   
  Ugo Barchetti, Alberto Bucciero, Luca Mainetti and Stefano Santo Sabato  
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  | 16:50 | 
  Closing | 
   
  
  | 17:00 | 
  End | 
   
 
Saturday, October 27 - NASAGEM'07 Workshop
  
  
  | 8:00 | 
  Reception | 
   
  
  | 8:30 | 
  Opening |   
   
  
  | 8:40 | 
  
    
    
    
    
    
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  | 10:00 | 
  Coffee Break | 
   
  
  | 10:30 | 
  
    
    
    
    
     Henning Naß, Franz-Erich Wolter, Hannes Thielhelm and Cem Dogan 
    
    Henning Naß, Franz-Erich Wolter, Cem Dogan, Hannes Thielhelm  
    
    
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  | 12:20 | 
  Lunch | 
   
  
  | 13:20 | 
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Martin Reuter, Marc Niethammer, Franz-Erich Wolter, Sylvain Bouix and Martha Shenton  
    
    Marco Attene, Francesco Robbiano, Michela Spagnuolo and Bianca Falcidieno  
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  | 15:10 | 
  Coffee Break | 
   
  
  | 15:30 | 
  
    
    
     Rachida Amjoun and Wolfgang Straßer 
    
    
    
    Polychronis Manousopoulos, Vassileios Drakopoulos, Theoharis Theoharis and Pavlos Stavrou 
    
    
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  | 17:30 | 
  Closing | 
   
  
  | 17:40 | 
  End | 
   
 
		
			 
	
		 
				
                                
				
				
			 
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