The first Scientific Visualization Seminar will meet this Wednesday
6 October at 3:35pm in room 204B Love.
(Not in either 152 DSL (CSE seminar room) nor 499 DSL (SCRI seminar room))


Our first speaker will be David Banks, FSU Computer Science
Speaking on: Computer Graphics becomes Computational Scattering


Abstract:
Computer Graphics began as a discipline in the 1960's.  During the past
40 years, its practitioners have rediscovered a lot about emission and
transfer of radiant energy in order to make their images look more
realistic.

As it becomes more like its computational cousins, modern computer
graphics is concerned with solutions to integro-differential equations,
monte carlo methods, variance reduction, and Hilbert spaces.

This talk presents elements of traditional computer graphics in view of
more abstract contemporary concerns.

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Some Upcoming Talks: (Some Tentative)
13 Oct: Ken Stephenson, U Tenn, Knoxville
20 Oct: Jorge Vinals, FSU SCRI
10 Nov: Moncia Hurdal, FSU Math 
1 Dec: Gordon Erlebacher, FSU Math, Powerwall Demo.