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Bei Wang Joins the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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Bei Wang has joined the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. The SCI Institute focuses on solving important problems in biomedicine, science, and engineering using computation and is an international research leader in the areas of scientific computing, visualization, and image analysis. Dr. Wang received […]

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June 2, 2016

Making Sense of Data Now Available

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Making Sense of Data, by Miriah Meyer and Danyel Fisher now available for pre-order from Amazon. From Amazon: You have a mound of data sitting in front of you and a suite of computation tools at your disposal. And yet, you’re stumped as to how to turn that data into insight. Which part of that […]

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May 31, 2016

NeuroImage Journal Cover Features SCIRun Renderings

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The publication and cover image is the result of a close collaboration between the University of Freiburg (Lukas Fiederer, Tonio Ball and others) in Germany and the NIH-funded Center for Integrated Biomedical Computing (CIBC, Moritz Dannhauer) at the SCI institute (Johannes Vorwerk). The cover of NeuroImage’ March (128) issue illustrates different tissues in a model […]

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May 12, 2016

Best Paper Award at PacificVis 2016

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Congratulations Bei and Valerio and SCI alumni: Paul Rosen, Guoning Chen and Harsh Bhatia who were awarded Best Paper at IEEE PacificVis 2016. Critical Point Cancellation in 3D Vector Fields: Robustness and Discussion Primoz Skraba (Jozef Stefan Institute), Paul Rosen (University of South Florida), Bei Wang (University of Utah), Guoning Chen (University of Houston), Harsh […]

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April 22, 2016

Science-ArtQuiz

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The SCI Institute recently contributed to the Science-ArtQuiz with the Leonardo. Can you distinguish Science from Art??? Paintbrush or microscope? Einstein or Picasso? Is there any difference? Challenge your inner genius with this unique, mind bending science vs art quiz. Can you get a perfect score? Take the quiz at http://www.theleonardo.org/science-artquiz/

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April 21, 2016

SCI Research Highlighted in Argonne’s 10 Year Celebration

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Modeling detonations to transport explosives safely Researchers modeled a 2005 explosion that left a 30-by-70-foot crater in a Utah highway, capturing the physics that made the truck’s cargo explode more violently than it should have. With such simulations, we can design safer transport for explosives. Led by Martin Berzins, University of Utah You can see […]

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March 15, 2016

Multiple Awards Received at IVAPP 2016

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Congratulations to Hao Nguyen for winning both best paper and best PhD progect at the International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP). Best Paper: H. Nguyen, P. Rosen, Improved identification of data correlations through correlation coordinate plots, Intl. Conf. on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP), 2016. Best PhD Project: H. Nguyen, P. […]

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March 2, 2016