Fall 2005 I2 Member Meeting Gala Event Univ of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Bridging the Ancient and Modern

The reflecting pool of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.	The museum's main entrance.	Summoning the audience to the Harrison Auditorium with an ancient Chinese gong.
The auditorium, looking back from the stage.	The podium.	The dome of the auditorium.
Museum director Dr. Richard Leventhal.	Welcoming the audience.	Dr. Lucy Fowler Williams (appearing in the Museum's climate-controlled storage area) discussing the Tlingit Indian artifacts
Teri Rofkar and Shelley Laws, Tlingit artists at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.	Dr. Karen Rosenberg (Univ of Delaware), Dr. Jakov Radovcic (Croatian Natural History Museum) with Dr. Milford Wolpoff (visiting from Univ. of Michigan), and Dr. Janet Monge (Univ of Pennsylvania), clockwise from lower left.	Avi Rosenthalis and Ashley Bram-Johnson, Dr. Rosenberg's students at UD, ask questions of Dr. Monge.
Dr. Rosenberg opines on certain features of a fossil in her collection.	Dr. Monge parries and thrusts with a counterexample.	Dr. Radovcic illustrates a 3D-reconstruction of a bone. [Animation]
The vividness of the image leaves the audience speechless. [Animation]	A remarkable use of CT scans to produce virtual artifacts. [Animation]	Dr. Leventhal closes the event.
A bronze statue bids the audience a safe journey home.
Preparation and Testing
William Luff prepares the video switcher at the back of the auditorium.	William and Dan prepare some cameras backstage.	Jennifer MacDougall downloads some files, while Michael Knight watches, Greg Palmer takes notes, and Heather Weiss thinks about the next steps.
Jeff Coke works at the monitors while Gates Rhodes and Chris Cook check on the cabling.	Chris Cook checks out the camera angle on the Tlinget artifacts.	The DVTS (30Mb/s) uncompressed video connection to Anchorage looks solid.
And in the hallway downstairs, a glimpse of Dr. Monge's lab.	The latex impressions of the original fossils wait to be turned into high-quality casts.	A typical cast.
The first step in the casting process.	Dr. Monge, in a cerebral moment.	Tools of the trade.
Dr. Monge glances at the videoconference monitor during early testing.	Two casting technologies: video and plaster.	Dr. Monge relaxes at the cast party.

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Credits: On-screen participants University of Alaska, Anchorage: Tlinget artists Shelly Laws, Teri Rofkar University of Delaware Ashley Bram-Johnson, Karen Rosenberg, Avi Rosenthalis University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Milford Wolpoff University of Pennsylvania Richard Leventhal, Janet Monge, Lucy Fowler Williams Organization and technical support University of Pennsylvania Jeff Coke, Chris Cook, Flint Dibble, Shawn Hyla, Kevin Lamp, Tom McCaffery, Jennifer MacDougall (Gala event chair), Gerry Margolis, Greg Palmer, Gates Rhodes, Rajeev Thomas, William Wierzbowski, Heather Weiss CARNet, Croatia Robert Macek Croatian Museum of Natural History, Zagreb Jakov Radovcic Internet2 Ann Doyle, Chris Goosman, Bob Riddle Internet2 Commons Meghan Troyer University of Alaska, Anchorage Les Secrest University of Alaska, Fairbanks Richard Machida University of Alaska System Steve Smith University of Delaware Bruce Lambrecht, Dick Sacher, Kathleen Troutman University of Zagreb Amir Dupanovic, Goran Trutanic

Photos taken at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology used with permission of the Museum. Video clips created by, and used with permission of Prof. Roberto Macchiarelli (Universite de Poitiers, France) and Dr. Jakov Radovcic (Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb, Croatia).

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Photographs taken by Dick Sacher, UD
Last updated: October 5, 2005