SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND IMAGING INSTITUTE
at the University of Utah

In 2024, the SCI Institute will mark three decades of multidisciplinary research, innovation, and impact. We hope you will join us on April 24th and 25th to help celebrate our past, present and future. We will have two days of events showcasing the ground-breaking research of SCI’s faculty, staff and students and highlighting our vision for the future. We will be updating the schedule as we learn more.

You can watch all talks and panel discussions here

April 24, 2024 Warnock Engineering Building (WEB)

1:00-5:00 PM WEB Floors 2, 3, 4 Poster Session and Demonstrations

5:00-7:00 PM First floor Reception

April 25, 2024 University of Utah Alumni House

8:30 AM Refreshments

9:00 AM Welcome, Mitzi Montoya, Sr. VP Academic Affairs; Manish Parashar, SCI Director

9:15 AM Keynotes: The Value of Translational, Multi-disciplinary Science Pat Hanrahan, Canon Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford Will Schroeder, Kitware co-founder Dave Weinstein, Director of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality at NVIDIA

11:00 AM Panel Discussion: The Next Decade Moderator: Dr. Paul Rosen, Associate Professor Kate Isaacs, Associate Professor Amir Arzani, Assistant Professor Shireen Elhabian, Associate Professor Tamara Bidone, Assistant Professor Bao Wang, Assistant Professor

Noon Lunch

1:00 PM Panel Discussion: Harnessing Responsible AI: Opportunities and Challenges At the Intersection of AI and Society Moderator: Mike Kirby Margaret Woolley Busse, Executive Director, Utah Department of Commerce Bill Anderegg, Associate Professor, School Of Biological Sciences, University of Utah Ana Marasovic, Professor, Kalhert School of Computing, University of Utah

2:00 PM Fireside Chat: SCI History & Legacy Moderator: Rob MacLeod, SCI co-Founder Dave Pershing, former University of Utah President Greg Jones, Director, Global Business Development/Product Management, XR at NVIDIA Chris Johnson, SCI co-Founder

3:00 PM Closing remarks, Manish Parashar, SCI Director

SCI History from the Everett L. Cooley Collection