~ ~ Dr. Werner Benger Researcher for Scientific Visualization at CCT

Main Research Focus: Generic Visualization methods based in mathematical models for multidisciplinary applications, with special focus on astrophysics and computational fluid dynamics. The applied methods are based on Differential Geometry Geometric Algebra Topology Fiber Bundles How to end up in Scientific Visualization A powerpoint presentation about career experiences in sciviz. See also Colliding galaxies, rotating neutron stars and merging black holes - visualizing high dimensional datasets on arbitrary meshes, Part of Focus on Visualization in Physics, 2008 New J. Phys. 10 125004 .

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Main author of the Vish visualization environment and the Fiber Bundle HDF5 (F5) library.

Highlights

Visualization of General Relativistic Tensor Fields via a Fiber Bundle Data Structure, partially via HDF5, which is now available as F5.

Visualizing neuronal structures in the human brain via diffusion tensor MRI. (Int J Neurosci. 2006 Apr ;116:461-514) , see also abstract

ANALYSING CURVED SPACETIMES WITH TENSOR SPLATS in THE TENTH MARCEL GROSSMANN MEETING (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 20 - 26 July 2003), On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories (In 3 volumes), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Strategies for Direct Visualization of Second-Rank Tensor Fields, in Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields, J. Weickert, H. Hagen (eds.), Chapter 11, Springer Verlag, pp. 191-214, 2006

3D Grazing Collision of Two Black Holes (PhysRevLett 2001, Bibtex)

Numerical Relativity in a Distributed Environment. W. Benger, I. Foster, J. Novotny, E. Seidel, J. Shalf, W. Smith, P. Walker, Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Apr. 1999. (pdf)

contributing to NSF screensavers, NSF Multimedia Gallery, National Science Board, 2006, Science and Engineering Indicators 2006 (volume 1, NSB 06-01; volume 2, NSB 06-01A) and their Fiscal 2006 Budget Request of $5.6 Billion.

A Four-Member CCT Team Creates a Computer Visualization of Hurricane Katrina

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Past Activities

• SC05 - Stereographic Visualization of Curved Space [NCSA PR Release]
• SC05 - Hurrican Katrina [PR Echo]