8 May
2007
8 May
'07
10:58 a.m.
Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, May 9, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Dr. Chris Johnson
Ph.D. Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute,
Distinguished Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah
Seminar Title: Visual Computing: Case Studies and Research Challenges
Abstract
Computers are now extensively used throughout science, engineering,
and medicine. Advances in computational geometric modeling, imaging,
and simulation allow researchers to build and test models of
increasingly complex phenomena and thus to generate unprecedented
amounts of data. These advances have created the need to make
corresponding progress in our ability to understand large amounts of
data and information arising from multiple sources. In fact, to
effectively understand and make use of the vast amounts of
information being produced is one of the greatest scientific
challenges of the 21st Century. Visual computing, which relies on and
takes advantage of, the interplay among techniques of visualization,
computer graphics, virtual reality, and imaging and vision, is
fundamental to understanding models of complex phenomena, which are
often multi-disciplinary in nature. In this talk, I will first
provide several examples of ongoing visual computing research at the
Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute as applied to
problems in computational science, engineering, and medicine, then go
on to discuss future research opportunities.
Upcoming IIC Seminars
Friday, May 11, 2007 at 11:00a.m. - David Keyes, Fu Foundation
Professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Location: Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street
Seminar Title:
Scalable Solver Infrastructure for Multirate, Multiscale PDE
Applications
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