Title: Visual Analytics For Discovery, Exploration, and Decision Making
Speaker: David Ebert, Purdue University
Date: Friday, February 22, 2008** 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: DyDan Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
**Note special day. Lunch will be served during this seminar.
Abstract:
The goal of computerized image generation is to convey information to the user or viewer, whether for artistic reflection, scientific discovery, or decision making. The history of art, design, illustration, and perception form a rich basis for developing interactive computerized visual environments for discovery, engineering, and analytical decision making. The development of interactive visualization techniques to effectively, rapidly and accurately convey information can fundamentally change the pace of scientific discovery and adoption of new science into usable applications. Moreover, integrated data management, analysis, and interactive visual environments provide insight and information from the massive data generated by computer simulations, sensors, and web-based sources. The potential of these integrated environments has led to a evolution of visualization to visual analytics.
In this talk, I'll discuss the role that computer graphics and interactive integrated visualization and analytics can play in research, discovery, and deployment in a variety of application areas. We have been developing integrated visual analytics environments for a diverse set of applications from homeland security to fundamental computational science. I'll describe some of our integrated visualization, data management, and analytical solutions for weather forecasting, cloud modeling, surgical training, computational nanoelectronics, computational fluid dynamics, cancer care engineering, syndromic surveillance, agricultural food production, and emergency response.
David Ebert is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, a University Faculty Scholar, Director of the Purdue University Rendering and Perceptualization Lab (PURPL), and Director of the Purdue University Regional Visualization and Analytics Center (PURVAC), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security's Regional Visualization and Analytics Center of Excellence. Dr. Ebert performs research in novel visualization techniques, visual analytics, volume rendering, information visualization, perceptually-based visualization, illustrative visualization, and procedural abstraction of complex, massive data. Ebert has been very active in the visualization community, teaching courses, presenting papers, co-chairing many conference program committees, serving on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee, serving as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, serving as a member of the IEEE Computer Society's Publications Board, serving on the National Visualization and Analytics Center's National Research Agenda Panel, and successfully managing grants totaling over $17M in external funding to develop more effective methods for visually communicating information.