Geometric Modeling and Visualization for Science

When: Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Where: PGH 563
Time: 1:00 PM

Speaker: Prof. G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago

Host: Prof. Zhigang Deng

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 novel geometricrepresentations, computationalmodeling, and visual analysis tools to facilitate the simulation and analysis of such complex scientific phenomena. These representations and tools have applications in domains as diverse as neuroimaging, astronomy, biology, and turbulent combustion.

Bio:

Liz Marai is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a member of EVL, the Electronic Visualization Lab. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and ofmultiple Outstanding Paper awards, and she has received multiple teaching awards for courses that blend research and teaching. Herresearch interests are in scientific geometric modeling and in datavisualization, with a particular emphasis on biomed data visualization and on integration of spatial and nonspatial information. She is aGeneral Co-Chair of BioVis, the international symposium on biology data visualization. She received her Ph.D. in computer Science from Brown University in 2007.