Nina Amenta

I am a professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis. I am part of the Visualization and Graphics Research Group. email: amenta"at"cs.ucdavis.edu My office is 2123 Kemper Hall Phone (530)-754-5377 FAX (530)-752-4767 My lab is 2338 Academic Surge Mailing Address: Nina Amenta Department of Computer Science University of California One Sheilds Avenue Davis, CA 95616

This quarter I am teaching ECS 10, Introduction to Computer Programming. Other quarters I have taught: ECS 175, Introduction to Computer Graphics. ECS 226, Computational Geometry. ECS 20, Discrete Math. ECS 122a, Undergraduate Algorithms. ECS 175, Undergraduate Graphics. ECS 177, Undergraduate Visualization. ECS222a, Graduate Algorithms. ECS 289H, Graduate Seminar on Algorithms in 3D Photography. Much of my reseach in the last several years has been devoted to algorithms to reconstruct surfaces from clouds of points. Some recent work (see the publications) concerns the definition of a smooth surface implied by a point cloud. Earlier work on producing meshes from point clouds led to the Power Crust software. It uses an algorithm which works better in practice than our first innovative algorithm, the Crust. Much of my recent work is related to visualizing morphological change in evolution. This work grew out of a project in visualization for computational phylogeny. Here is a list of my publications.