Haim Levkowitz | University of Massachusetts - Estados Unidos

• Grant number: 07/02505-1
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: June 09, 2008
• End date: June 30, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computing Methodologies and Techniques
• Principal Investigator: Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira
• Grantee: Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira
• Visiting researcher: Haim Levkowitz
• Visiting researcher institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Prof. Levkowitz visit provides an opportunity for joint presential work on several activities related to his ongoing collaboration in research projects conducted in our research group. Such activities include: - discussion on recently finished and ongoing research project: major results and perspectives for further research;- discussion with graduate students regarding the progress of the doctoral research projects; seminars by students and group discussions; - a short course on Information Retrieval and its integration with visualization and visual data mining; - preparation of three papers for submission to journal and conferences - these require analysis and possible further developments prior to submission; - planning follow-up research projects and papers - planning organization of the Pan-American Advanced School on Visual Analytics, if application for funding by NSF is approved - which should be known by late July. (AU)