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In August, I attended a Summer Institute on Immersive Collaboration,
organized by Media X at Stanford
University. I gave a talk titled From Facilitating to
Creating Collaborations, I met many interesting individuals using
virtual worlds for remote collaborations, and I learned about many new
software and hardware systems enabling such collaborations.
Also in August 2007, I chaired the Modest-7a workshop, titled
A Software Framework
for Simulating Stellar Systems, in Split, Croatia. This meeting
formed a mile stone, in providing a working
set of connected codes for simulations of the stellar evolution,
dynamics, and hydrodynamics of star clusters, using the
MUSE framework.
In July 2007, on the Seeds
of Unfolding website of the Cafh organization, an interview of me
appeared,
Deep
Questions, that was conducted half a year earlier by Bob Magrisso,
a physician at Northwestern University with a deep interest in
practical approaches to contemplative exporations.
Also in July, we released
ACS 1.3.2, a new version
of our Art of Computational Science
project. Our main addition is a time symmetric block time step code with
fourth order and sixth order Hermite implementations.
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In June 2007, we came up to speed in using a great new collaboration tool,
Qwaq Forums, in the form of a virtual
world. It allowed me to conduct research remotely with colleagues in
Europe, Japan, and elsewhere. See the
Virtual Reality
Explorations page on our WoK web site, and in particular our summaries
of weekly
talks given there by a number of speakers with very different backgrounds.
In May 2007, my answer to the question
What
is the greatest innovation in your field? appeared in the spiked/Pfizer
survey. I argued that
virtual
laboratories have made astronomy into a real science, based not
only on observations, but also on experiments.
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In April 2007, I attended the
Media X Conference,
where I learned a lot about new types of research and collaboration tools,
including ways to meet colleagues from around the world to do joint
research in virtual worlds.
In March 2007, I started a six-week series of
Sunday
afternoon lectures near the pond at the Trees in the virtual
reality world of
Videoranch,
on the general topic of science in a wider context.
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In February 2007, I gave a talk in the virtual reality world
Videoranch, with the title
Ways
of Knowing. I also joined
Ed Lu,
astronaut and astrophysicist, in his talk in videoranch titled
The
Asteroid Tugboat.
Also in February, I participated in a
Roundtable
discussion on Modern Cosmology, in New York City at the
Philoctetes Center,
established to foster and promote an integrated multidisciplinary
approach to the understanding of creativity and the imaginative process.
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In January 2007, I participated in a workshop on
Calibration
and Confrontation of Models and Observations, at Drexel University,
where we actively participated in extending the
MUSE framework for Multi-scale,
Multi-physics simulations in astrophysics.
Also in January, I wrote a short invited note on
The
Real Purity of Pure Science at the web site of the
World Question Center,
in response to the questions ``What are you optimistic about? Why?''
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