| Title: | Invited Talk: BCoE Scientific Computing Research Seminar |
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| Posted by: | T.J. Jankun-Kelly |
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On Tuesday, 330pm in the Dunn Conference Room, <a href="http://msuinfo.ur.msstate.edu/where/building/mccain.htm" title="Locate McCain Hall">McCain Hall, <a href="http://www.cse.msstate.edu/~tjk/">Dr. Jankun-Kely will be giving a talk at the Bagley College of Engineering's Scientific Computing Working Group Seminar entitled The Marriage of Scientific and Information Visualization: A Physics-based Case Study. Below you can find the abstract.
Information and Scientific Visualization are two disjoint areas of visualization research. Information Visuaization focuses on data with no inherent spatial meaning whereas Scientific Visualization deals with data with a given spatial mapping. Scientific Visualization has a long, productive history at the High Performance Computing Collaboratory at Mississippi State; Information Visualization does not. Can the two live together under the same house?
In this talk, I discuss an ongoing project within the SimCenter at the HPC^2 involving the visualization of nematic liquid crystal (NLC) dynamics. These systems have interesting physical properties that have not been adequately realized in current literature, and I present a novel, glyph-based tensor visualization scheme to depict NLC dynamics---a Scientific Visualization example. However, this work is based upon an initial need to study the overall behavior of the NLC data over many timesteps, a problem that we have approached by using multidimensional data visualization---an Information Visualization example. My talk will show how these two very different approaches complement each other, and discuss other possible combinations for future consideration.
| @ May 8, 2006 4:03:51 PM CDT |
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