"Geometric Modeling and Visualization for Science"

Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:00 AM

Location: A.V. Williams Building, Room 2120

Speaker:
Liz Marai
Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh

Abstract:
The incredible array of measurement technologies available to the scientific community is changing fundamentally our understanding of physical and biological processes. However, scientific data acquisition marks only the first step. To turn numbers into insight, computer graphics and visualization help us model complex systems, make predictions about their behavior, and finally harness the immense power of the human visual perception system to make insights into complex processes possible.

In this talk I will present several automated techniques, computational modeling, and visual analysis tools to facilitate the simulation and analysis of such complex scientific phenomena. These representations and tools were developed at the Pitt Interdisciplinary Visualization Research lab I direct, and have applications in domains as diverse as neuroimaging, astronomy, biology, turbulent combustion, or machine translation.