SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND IMAGING INSTITUTE
at the University of Utah

Created: 10 January 2018

ViSUS LLC is one of 16 start-ups selected to exhibit in the NSF SBIR (“America’s Seed Fund”) pavilion at the 2018 CES Eureka Park.

"With access to more than 3,500 financial professionals, 7,000 members of the media, key investors and suppliers, Eureka Park provides startups with a unique opportunity to showcase their ingenuity" [CES].

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Created: 19 December 2017

Congratulations to Yiliang Shi, who has been selected for honorable mention for the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award.

The award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

Created: 18 December 2017

Congratulations to Qi Wu, who received a Juror Choice Award in the 2017 Teapot Rendering Competition.

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Created: 20 November 2017

Software lets scientists explore the brain in 3-D and perform "virtual dissections"

By Bahar Gholipour, Spectrum on November 19, 2017
Article originally appears in Scientific American

The same techniques that generate images of smoke, clouds and fantastic beasts in movies can render neurons and brain structures in fine-grained detail.

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Created: 20 November 2017

Congratulations to Timbwaoga Ouermi, Aaron Knoll, Robert M. Kirby and Martin Berzins, whose paper: "Optimization Strategies for WSM6 on Intel Microarchitectures", received Best Paper at the Fifth International Symposium on Computing and Networking 2017 (CANDAR'17) 2017, in Aomori, Japan.

Created: 20 November 2017

Congratulations to Bradley Peterson, Alan Humphrey, John Schmidt, and Martin Berzins, whose paper: Addressing Global Data Dependencies in Heterogeneous Asynchronous Runtime Systems on GPUs, received the Best Paper Award at the Third International IEEE Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and Middleware (ESPM2 2017).

Created: 03 November 2017

Miriah Meyer and Kerry Kelly talk with KRCL's RadioActive, hosted by Billy Palmer and Lara Jones, on Air Quality and You: Empowering Citizens Through Science.

Low-cost commodity sensors are changing how cities and citizens measure and manage air quality. Through a suite of projects at the U we are building infrastructure that will enable real-time, fine-grained estimates of air quality both inside and outside of homes across Salt Lake City. In this presentation we’ll talk about the science of air quality, the computational challenges of developing rigorous air quality estimates, and our efforts to engage with citizens across the city.

Listen to the discussion on RadioActive

Created: 03 October 2017

Congratulations to Valerio Pascucci and Kree Cole-McLaughlin on receiving the IEEE Visualization 15 Year Test of Time Award for their paper "Efficient computation of the topology of level sets."

Using topological approaches to analyze level sets from scalar field has been an important branch of methods in the SciVis community. While the theories of contour trees had been known prior to this paper, efficient and robust computation of contour trees and other topological features from a discrete data set has been a challenge. In this paper, the authors provided a detailed account of the implementation of contour tree computation. The improved efficiency and the enhanced feature namely the Betti number makes the topological approach more practical and accessible to the scientific community. Considering the citation counts, the importance of the work, and the potential impact to the application areas, the SciVis Test of Time award committee selected this paper as the 2002 SciVis Test of Time award winner.

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Created: 26 September 2017

Congratulations to Yarden Livnat, who is part of the team who received the 2017 NERSC Award for Innovative Use of HPC for their project on scaling for a realistic simulation of an infectious disease: Massively Parallel Simulations of Spread of Infectious Diseases over Realistic Social Networks

https://www.nersc.gov/news-publications/nersc-news/nersc-center-news/2017/nersc/

Created: 11 September 2017

"The only certainty...," it is said, "is that nothing is certain."

And so it goes with computational forecasts of important events such as weather, finance, and climate. Among all of this uncertainty, however, there are patterns, likelihoods, and rarities that inform important decisions that may affect billions of dollars in resources and thousands, or even millions, of lives. In the hurricane season on the eastern U.S., computational forecasting plays a central role in critical decisions that can determine allocations of emergency resources and the movements of people. The uncertainty and accuracy of these forecasts is an important part in making effective use of these sophisticated tools.

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