HybridFox is a wonderful tool to work with, you can manage instances and it serves handy in viewing the status of your cloud at any instant of time.It provides a user friendly interface as well as well as convenient interfaces.
You can get HybridFox from the following link
http://code.google.com/p/hybridfox/
One can manage Images,Instances,Security Groups,Elastic IPs,Volumes,Security Groups etc…
For HybridFox tutorial follow this link :
Ananthakrishnan Ravi 
@insanegenie thanks for good thoughts about Hybridfox. It will be of use if you could share some feedback on Hybridfox. Btw i am the maintainer of Hybridfox.
Also good luck for your paper presentation.
i have no words sir, i have been drawn to hybridfox and i feel thats nothing better that makes managing images and instances on the cloud more easier.