CCT Hosts Electronic Visualization Laboratory Director for Distinguished Lecture
CCT will host Professor Jason Leigh for a Distinguished Lecture Series on “Emerging From The CAVE: Advanced Visualization And Collaboration Research At The Electronic Visualization Laboratory†on Thursday, May 24, at 2 p.m. in the Life Sciences Annex Room A101. Leigh is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also serves as director of the university's renowned Electronic Visualization Laboratory. In his lecture, Leigh will discuss the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment, called CAVE, a room-sized, immersive, virtual reality environment. The first CAVE was created at the University of Illinois in 1992, and a second CAVE was built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications. CAVE is a groundbreaking research tool that has advanced scientific visualization. Leigh's presentation will detail his laboratory's research in visualization, high-speed networking and computer-supported cooperative work that has been conducted as part of the OptIPuter project. The OptIPuter, so named for its use of optical networking, combines computational resources over optical networks. The OptIPuter's central element is optical networking, not computers, and this new project creates "supernetworks." This format will enable greater research collaboration, as scientists who are generating terabytes and petabytes of data can interactively visualize, analyze and correlate their data from multiple storage sites connected to optical networks. More information on Leigh's lecture is online at www.cct.lsu.edu. Pats on the Back
• CCT congratulates May 2007 graduate Anuradha Vij, who received her diploma Friday. She has accepted a job with Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP in Houston. • Thomas Sterling's appointment as CCT Chief Scientist was featured on the front page of the most recent “LSU Today.†Lectures This Week:
• Jason Leigh's Distinguished Lecture “Emerging from the CAVE: Advanced Visualization and Collaboration Research at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory†will take place Thursday, May 24, at 2 p.m. in the Life Sciences Building Annex Room A101. (see above) • The CCT Colloquium Series will feature Isaiah M. Warner, of the LSU Department of Chemistry, this Friday, May 25, at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Warner will discuss “Models for Creating and Sustaining Diversity among Undergraduate Students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.†• CCT and the LSU Department of Computer Science will host two ITELS lectures in June. James Demmel, of the University of California at Berkeley, will discuss “The Future of High-Performance Linear Algebra†on Friday, June 1, at 1:30 p.m. in Coates Hall Room 152. • A second ITELS lecture featuring Moshe Y. Vardi of Rice University will take place on Monday, June 11, at 3 p.m. in the Howe Russell Geoscience Complex, Room 130E. Vardi will discuss “And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth.†Please Note:
• A Post-Katrina forum, "Gulf States Alliance: Network Science and Recovery," will take place at the Beau Rivage Hotel in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 19-21, 2007. This forum is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Programs in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Forum registration is free and includes forum-sponsored meals, and breaks. Space is limited so participants are strongly urged to pre-register in order for forum planners to know in advance how many will be in attendance. The deadline for pre-registration is July 25, 2007. For more information and to register, please visit: http://forum2007.laepscor.org. • CCT graduate students require annual reviews by their supervisors. Faculty and staff who employ graduate students received the evaluation form via e-mail last week. Please fill it out and return it to CCT Human Resources Coordinator Laurie Rea by Thursday, May 31. Contact Laurie if you have further questions or need more information. • If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu. Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
NIH Biomedical Technology Resource Center Program May 25 2007 10:00 am At Most $700,000.00 available Homeland Security Awards May 25 2007 10:15 am At Most $ 25,000.00 available http://www.ccolumbusfoundationawards.org/homeland/rules.cfm NSF International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) NSF IREE May 29 2007 5:00 pm At Most $ 20,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07032/nsf07032.jsp Board of Regents Links with Industry, Research Centers, and National Labs BoR LINKS May 31 2007 10:00 am At Most $ 6,000.00 available http://www.laregents.org/www2/index.htm
CCT will host Professor Jason Leigh for a Distinguished Lecture Series on “Emerging From The CAVE: Advanced Visualization And Collaboration Research At The Electronic Visualization Laboratory†on Thursday, May 24, at 2 p.m. in the Life Sciences Annex Room A101. Leigh is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also serves as director of the university's renowned Electronic Visualization Laboratory. In his lecture, Leigh will discuss the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment, called CAVE, a room-sized, immersive, virtual reality environment. The first CAVE was created at the University of Illinois in 1992, and a second CAVE was built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications. CAVE is a groundbreaking research tool that has advanced scientific visualization. Leigh's presentation will detail his laboratory's research in visualization, high-speed networking and computer-supported cooperative work that has been conducted as part of the OptIPuter project. The OptIPuter, so named for its use of optical networking, combines computational resources over optical networks. The OptIPuter's central element is optical networking, not computers, and this new project creates "supernetworks." This format will enable greater research collaboration, as scientists who are generating terabytes and petabytes of data can interactively visualize, analyze and correlate their data from multiple storage sites connected to optical networks. More information on Leigh's lecture is online at www.cct.lsu.edu. Pats on the Back
• CCT congratulates May 2007 graduate Anuradha Vij, who received her diploma Friday. She has accepted a job with Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP in Houston. • Thomas Sterling's appointment as CCT Chief Scientist was featured on the front page of the most recent “LSU Today.†Lectures This Week:
• Jason Leigh's Distinguished Lecture “Emerging from the CAVE: Advanced Visualization and Collaboration Research at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory†will take place Thursday, May 24, at 2 p.m. in the Life Sciences Building Annex Room A101. (see above) • The CCT Colloquium Series will feature Isaiah M. Warner, of the LSU Department of Chemistry, this Friday, May 25, at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Warner will discuss “Models for Creating and Sustaining Diversity among Undergraduate Students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.†• CCT and the LSU Department of Computer Science will host two ITELS lectures in June. James Demmel, of the University of California at Berkeley, will discuss “The Future of High-Performance Linear Algebra†on Friday, June 1, at 1:30 p.m. in Coates Hall Room 152. • A second ITELS lecture featuring Moshe Y. Vardi of Rice University will take place on Monday, June 11, at 3 p.m. in the Howe Russell Geoscience Complex, Room 130E. Vardi will discuss “And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth.†Please Note:
• A Post-Katrina forum, "Gulf States Alliance: Network Science and Recovery," will take place at the Beau Rivage Hotel in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 19-21, 2007. This forum is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Programs in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Forum registration is free and includes forum-sponsored meals, and breaks. Space is limited so participants are strongly urged to pre-register in order for forum planners to know in advance how many will be in attendance. The deadline for pre-registration is July 25, 2007. For more information and to register, please visit: http://forum2007.laepscor.org. • CCT graduate students require annual reviews by their supervisors. Faculty and staff who employ graduate students received the evaluation form via e-mail last week. Please fill it out and return it to CCT Human Resources Coordinator Laurie Rea by Thursday, May 31. Contact Laurie if you have further questions or need more information. • If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu. Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
NIH Biomedical Technology Resource Center Program May 25 2007 10:00 am At Most $700,000.00 available Homeland Security Awards May 25 2007 10:15 am At Most $ 25,000.00 available http://www.ccolumbusfoundationawards.org/homeland/rules.cfm NSF International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) NSF IREE May 29 2007 5:00 pm At Most $ 20,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07032/nsf07032.jsp Board of Regents Links with Industry, Research Centers, and National Labs BoR LINKS May 31 2007 10:00 am At Most $ 6,000.00 available http://www.laregents.org/www2/index.htm
Publish Date:
05-22-2007
