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2012 IAMCS-KAUST Workshop on Computational Biomedicine and Geophysics

April 5th-6th, 2012
Marriott City Center
Salt Lake City, Utah



Thursday, April 5, 2012

 8:00 - 8:30: ♦♦ Registration ♦♦  
 
 8:30 - 8:45: Welcome Raymond Carroll
Texas A&M

 8:45 - 9:00: Opening Chris Johnson
University of Utah

 9:00 - 9:30: Modeling Initiation and Growth of an Atherosclerotic Lesion

Jay Walton
Texas A&M

 9:30 - 10:00: Petascale Visualization for Neuroscience

Johanna Beyer
KAUST

 10:00 - 10:30: Visualizing Biological Data

Miriah Meyer
University of Utah

 10:30 - 11:00: ♦♦ BREAK ♦♦  
 
 11:00 - 11:30: Collaborative Digital Pathology for Multi-Touch Mobile Platforms

Jens Schneider
KAUST

 11:30 - 12:00: Large Data Management, Analysis and Visualization for Science Discovery

Valerio Pascucci
University of Utah

 12:00 - 1:30: ♦♦ LUNCH ♦♦  
 
 1:30 - 2:00: A Parametric Volume with Applications to Subsurface Modeling

Alyn Rockwood
KAUST

 2:00 - 2:30: Roadmap-based Techniques for Modeling Group Behaviors in Multi-Agent Systems

Sam Rodriguez
Texas A&M

 2:30 - 3:00: Rethinking Regular Grids

Paul Rosen
University of Utah

 3:00 - 3:30: ♦♦ BREAK ♦♦  
 
 3:30 - 4:00: Exact Fast Computation of Band Depth for Visualization of Large Functional Datasets

Ying Sun
SAMSI

 4:00 - 4:30: Functional Median Polish, with Climate Applications

Marc Genton
Texas A&M

 4:30 - 5:00: Uncertainty Visualization: Beyond Mean and Standard Deviation

Kristi Potter
University of Utah


 



Friday, April 6, 2012

 8:00 - 8:30: Theory and Feasibility Tests for a Seismic Scanning Tunneling Microscope Jerry Schuster
KAUST

 8:30 - 9:00: Modern Numerical Methods for Modeling Convection in the Earth's Mantle Timo Heister
Texas A&M

 9:00 - 9:30: Bayesian uncertainty quantification for subsurface inversion using multiscale hierarchical model Bani Mallick
Texas A&M

 9:30 - 10:00: ♦♦ BREAK ♦♦



 10:00 - 10:30: Interactive Volume Visualization of General Polyhedral Grids Markus Hadwiger
KAUST

 10:30 - 11:00: Exploratory Models for High Dimensional Data Sam Gerber
University of Utah

 11:00 - 11:30: Variable Selection for High Dimensional Biomedical Models  Qifan Song
Texas A&M

 11:30 - 12:00: Dynamic Particle System for Mesh Extraction on the GPU  Mark Kim
University of Utah

 12:00 - 12:15: Closing Chuck Hansen
University of Utah 

 12:15 - 1:30: ♦♦ LUNCH ♦♦



 2:00 - 3:00: SCI Distinguished Lecture:
Ben Santer, LLNL
A Life in Climate Science: From Identification of a “Discernible Human Influence”
on Climate to Identification of the “Top Ten” Climate Models 
SCI Institute
Warnock Engineering Building
WEB 1250
First Floor