Sept 7-Jan 7, 2008

American Museum of Science and Energy

Are you interested in seeing science from above? Curious to see what impact one single person or invention can have? Keen to find pockets of innovation? Desperate for better tools to manage the information flood? Or are you simply fascinated by maps? Then visit the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit at on display at the American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, TN September 7, 2007- January 7, 2008.

The exhibit aims to demonstrate the power of maps to navigate and make sense of physical places and abstract topic spaces. The display at AMSE features the first three of ten iterations of the Places & Spaces exhibit entitled 'The Power of Maps', 'The Power of Reference Systems', and 'The Power of Forecasts'. Also shown are Illuminated Diagram displays by W. Bradford Paley, Kevin Boyack, John Burgoon, Peter Kennard, and Richard Klavans and Worldprocessor globes by Ingo Günther, and hands-on science maps for kids with paintings by Fileve Palmer.

Scientists will be stimulated, students and teachers encouraged, and the general public fascinated by this multi-layered accessible approach to the worlds of modern scientific thought.

Exhibit Curators

Dr. Katy Börner <katy@indiana.edu> and Elisha Hardy <efhardy@indiana.edu>,
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Local Exhibit Curators

Ken Mayes <ken.mayes@amse.org> from the American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, TN

Address

American Museum of Science and Energy, First Floor
300 South Tulane Ave.
Oak Ridge, TN 37830

Maps On Display

Additional Elements

Special Exhibit Map

OSTI Contributed Maps

Related Press

Special Events

Kid's Contest

Download the Kids Contest Flyer.
Download the Learning Objective for the exhibit.
Download the Clue Sheet for the Hands on Maps of for Kids.
View more information about the Hands-on Maps for Kids.

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007, Eugene Garfield: Community Lecture: 7:00 PM, AMSE Auditorium - Free Admission

Dr. Eugene Garfield, Chairman Emeritus of Thomson Scientific, will present "On the Shoulders of Giants –tracing the impacts of information retrieval systems on science policy." Reception with refreshments to follow. This lecture is co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), within the Office of Science, and the Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (FORNL). Reception hosted by Information International Associates, Inc., NCI Information Systems, Inc., and Deep Web Technologies.

Garfield Bio
Dr. Eugene Garfield is Chairman Emeritus of Thomson Scientific, formerly the Institute for Scientific information®. A pioneer in information retrieval systems and inventor of Current Contents (1958), Index Chemicus (1960), Science Citation Index (1964), SSCI (1970), and AHCI (1975), he is an eclectic science communicator and founding publisher/editor of The Scientist, and author of over 1,000 articles and books. Dr. Garfield serves on the editorial boards of Scientometrics and the Journal of Information Science, and is past president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. He received a BS in Chemistry and an MS in Library Science from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Structural Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves on the Board of Overseers of the Library. Dr. Garfield has lectured widely throughout the world.
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008, Katy Börner: Mapping Science Talk and Tour, 11:00 AM, AMSE Auditorium - Free Admission

Are you interested in seeing science from above? Curious to see what impact one single person or invention can have? Keen to find pockets of innovation? Desperate for better tools to manage the information flood? Or are you simply fascinated by maps? Then visit the AMSE on Jan 3rd, 2008 for a talk on "Mapping Science" at 11am and tour of the "Places & Spaces: Mapping Science" exhibit at 11:30am by Dr. Katy Borner.

Dr. Katy Börner is Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, Director of the Information Visualization Lab, and Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics, Core Faculty Member of Cognitive Science, and Research Affiliate of the Biocomplexity Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her web page is at http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/.
OSTI: Celebrating 60 Years

OSTI ensures that the findings from research and development are shared so that science can advance. OSTI works to speed the sharing of knowledge to accelerate the pace of discovery. OSTI will celebrate 60 years of advancing science with a special poster exhibit: Mapping Dark Matter in Astrophysics from the Department of Energy Research & Development Results, in conjunction with the Places & Spaces exhibit at AMSE.

Acknowledgements

Places & Spaces is curated by Dr. Katy Börner and Julie Smith, School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. Places & Spaces also receives input from the Advisory Board listed on the website. Ken Mayes, Deputy Director for AMSE, is the adviser for the exhibit.

Places & Spaces at AMSE is sponsored by National Science Foundation awards IIS-0238261 and CHE-0524661; Thomson Scientific; the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, University Information Technology Services, and the School of Library and Information Science, all three at Indiana University. Much of the data used to generate the science maps is from Thomson Scientific.

Local Oak Ridge Tennessee Sponsors Include:
The American Museum of Science and Energy, The Oak Ridger, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), within the Office of Science, Information International Associates, Inc., NCI Information Systems, Inc., Deep Web Technologies, and the Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (FORNL).

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