News and Activities

2005

• SC2005 Workshop on Time-Varying Data Visualization, November 18.
• "Intelligent Feature Extraction and Tracking for Large-Scale 4D Flow Simulations", Kwan-Liu Ma, technical paper presentation, SC 2005, November 15.
• UC Davis' team is participating SC2005's StorCloud.
• "Visualizing Supernova Simulations, Kwan-Liu Ma, invited talk, Terascale Supernova Initiate project meeting, August 4.
• Project meeting at JPL, August 4.
• Project meeting at SIGGRAPH 2005, August 3.
• "Hierarchical Navigation Interface: Leveraging Multiple Coordinated Views for Level-of-Detail Multi-resolution Volume Rendering of Large Scientific Data Sets", Han-Wei Shen, technical paper presentation, International Conference on Information Visualization 2005.
• "Scientific Discovery through Advanced Visualization", Kwan-Liu Ma, invited talk, SciDAC 2005 Conference, San Francisco, June 28.
• Liya Li, a PhD student at Ohio State University, spent 12 weeks at NCAR to work with John Clyne, on texture-based flow visualization.
• Alex Garbutt, a senior student at UC Davis, spent 10 weeks at JPL to work with Dr. Peggy Li on Parallel Visualization, June-August.
• "A Multiresolution Volume Rednering Framework for Large-Scale Time-VArying Data Visualization", Chaoli Wang, technical paper presentation, Volume Graphics 2005.
• "End-to-end Data Reduction and Hardware Accelerated Rednering Techniques for Visualizing Time-Varying Non-uniform Grid Volume Data", Hiroshi Akiba, technical paper presentation, Volume Graphics 2005, June 20.
• Project meeting at Riken, Japan, June 15.
• "Time-Varying Multivariate Volume Data Reduction", Nathan Fout, Technical Paper presentation, ACM SAC 2005, March 15.
• Alpha version of the VAPoR visual data exploration environment was released, March.
• "Analyzing and Visualizing Terascale Turbulent Solar Convection Simulations", John Clyne, technical paper presentation, VDA 2005.

2004

• "A Parallel Visualization Pipeline for Terascale Earthquake Simulations", Hongfeng Yu, SC 2004 Conference, November 8.
• Two terascale stroage servers have been installed at UC Davis for the project.
• SCD News--New Visualization Tools for Better Science, August 25, 2004.
• "Exploiting Progressive Access for Interactive Analysis of High Resolution CFD Simulation Data", John Clyne, invited seminar, NCAR Geophysical Tubulence Program (GTP).
• PhD student Hiroshi Akiba spent 4 weeks in NCAR to port a time-varying visualization code to a production visualization system there, July 12-August 6.
• Project meeting at SIGGRAPH 2004, August 10, Los Angeles, CA.
  
• "Advanced Visualization Technologies", Kwan-Liu Ma, invited talk, Nissan Motor Co., Japan, June 24.
  
• "I/O Strategies for Parallel Rendering of Large Time-Varying Volume Data", presented by Brett Wilson at the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, June 10-11.
• NSF ITR PI meeting held in D.C., Washington during June 9-11.
• "New Technologies for Visualizing Time-Varying Data", Kwan-Liu Ma, invited talk, the Banff Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics, and Massive Data Exploration, May 22-27.
• Minisymposium on High-Performance Computing Strategies for Large-Scale Scientific Data Visualization, SIAM Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing 2004 Conference

2003

• Project meeting at the Visualization 2003 Conference, Oct 21, Seattle, WA.
• Project meeting at the Supercomputing 2003 Conference, Nov 19, Phoenix, AZ.
• "Visualizing Large-Scale Earthquake Simulation", technical paper presented by Kwan-Liu Ma at the Supercomputing 2003 Conference, Nov 15-21, AZ.

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