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Valerio Pascucci Wins a NASA Earth Exchange Award

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Valerio Pascucci won a NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) award entitled “A Flexible Encoding Framework and Autonomic Runtime System for Progressive Streaming of Scientific Data.” The one year, $100K award will help climate scientists study several terabytes of climate simulation datasets, manage workflows and reduce data management costs. The proposed software systems will advance the study […]

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WIFIRE Commons and BurnPro3D

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Valerio Pascucci funded among WIFIRE Commons and BurnPro3D Team from the NSF. A century of suppressing wildfires has created a dangerous accumulation of flammable vegetation on landscapes, contributing to megafires that risk human life and property, and permanently destroy ecosystems. Small controllable fires can dramatically reduce the risk of large fires that are uncontrollable. BurnPro3D […]

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Manish Parashar Named ACM Fellow

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Congratulations to School of Computing professor and Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute director, Manish Parashar, who was named one of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows for 2020 for contributions to high-performance parallel and distributed computing and computational science. The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments […]

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SCALE MoDL: Advancing Theoretical Minimax Deep Learning: Optimization, Resilience, and Interpretability

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Congratulations to Bei Wang on her new NSF Award, SCALE MoDL: Advancing Theoretical Minimax Deep Learning: Optimization, Resilience, and Interpretability The past decade has witnessed the great success of deep learning in broad societal and commercial applications. However, conventional deep learning relies on fitting data with neural networks, which is known to produce models that […]

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FluoRender Funded for Another Three Years

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FluoRender: Rapid Quantitative Analysis and Adaptive Workflows for Fluorescence Microscopy Data in Fundamental Biomedical Research FluoRender is a software package for interactive visualization and analysis of multichannel and multidimensional fluorescence microscopy data. This project will continue to serve the pressing needs of biologists utilizing fluorescence microscopy for flexible and reliable data analysis. FluoRender also addresses […]

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Conversion of Utah Coal into High-value Carbon Products Sustaining Rural Economies

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The University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and Department of Chemical Engineering have been selected by the State of Utah to develop new data exploration and visualization capabilities, create new computer modeling tools to optimize materials, and perform laboratory-scale research on methods to support innovations focused on creating new solid carbon products […]

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ShapeWorks 6.1 Now Available

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We are excited to announce the new release of our software, ShapeWorks 6.1! To download installation packages for Windows/Mac/Linux and/or the source code, please visit https://github.com/SCIInstitute/ShapeWorks/releases/tag/v6.1.0

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Jeff Weiss Receives Distinguished Research Award

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Congratulations to Jeff Weiss for receiving the Distinguished Research Award that recognizes outstanding achievement and excellence in scholarly and creative research. Professor Weiss received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, his doctorate in Bioengineering at the University of Utah in 1994, and completed postdoctoral training with the […]

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ShapeWorks 6.0 Released

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We are excited to announce the new release of our software, ShapeWorks 6.0! To download installation packages for Windows/Mac/Linux and/or the source code, please visit https://github.com/SCIInstitute/ShapeWorks/releases/tag/v6.0.0

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OpenSpace Project Renewed for 5 More Years

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Congratulations to Chuck Hansen on the 5-year renewal of his grant from NASA titled “OpenSpace – An Engine for Dynamic Visualization of Earth and Space Science for Informal Education and Beyond”. ENLIL simulation at AMNH’s LeFrak theater

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