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Nothing is Certain

September 11, 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,…

Driving Visualization at the SH/EAHP Workshop 2017

Sep 05, 2017
Need for Speed

Aug 30, 2017
SCI Acquires Nvidia DGX-1

Aug 24, 2017
A Calming Effect

Aug 21, 2017
Snapshots of Life: Muscling in on Development

Jul 28, 2017
Chuck Hansen to receive the 2017 IEEE Visualization Career Award

Jun 22, 2017
Research Initiative Seeks to Understand Neural Pathways in Deep Brain Stimulation

Jun 21, 2017
Miriah Meyer Interviewed at Women in Data Science 2017

May 04, 2017
Gigapixel image analysis on the fly

May 02, 2017
Mike Kirby Honored Among Top Researchers at the University of Utah

Apr 04, 2017
Combating Wear and Tear

Mar 22, 2017
Best Paper Award at SIGCSE 2017

Feb 16, 2017
Early Science Projects for Aurora Supercomputer Announced

Jan 30, 2017
SCI Alum Thiago Ize to Receive Technical Oscar

Jan 05, 2017
Rob MacLeod Elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

Jan 03, 2017
Laura Lediaev wins the Utah Rendering Competition for the 3rd straight year

Dec 19, 2016
Miriah Meyer Receives Distinguished Alumni Award

Nov 30, 2016
SCIx 2016: November 16th

Nov 09, 2016
Awards at MICCAI and IEEE VIS 2016

Oct 25, 2016
Fluorender 2.20 Released

Oct 18, 2016

Video Spotlights


Summer Course on Image-Based Biomedical Modeling

Tools for Understanding Connective Tissue Structure	Advancing Microscopy with FluoRender	Evolution of the Medical Classroom

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Research Highlights

2016 Image-Based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) summer course

The Image-Based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) summer course was held for the third time in 2016, from July 11-21, 2016 in Newpark Resort, Park City (Utah). The two-week course format included the following activities: Didactic lecture sessions given by the three… Read more

Introduction to Image-Based Modeling

Sponsored by the R. Harold Burton Foundation Over the course of four weeks, students from West High School and Skyline High School and a homeschooled junior year student were given an introduction to image-based modeling (IBM) as part of the SCI Institute… Read more

Image Analysis Tools for Understanding Connective Tissue Structure

Sponsored by the Burton Foundation This summer, two Salt Lake area high school students from Copper Hills High School came to the University of Utah to participate in a hands-on research experience. The students learned how image analysis tools help… Read more

Visualizing Hurricanes

On September 27th, Hurricane Joaquin, a Category 4 storm developed over the Atlantic Ocean pounding the Bahamas. There were a number of predications as to which way the storm would travel, one of which was that the hurricane would head north along the east… Read more

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Upcoming SCI Events

Today

12:00pm: Imaging Seminar: Markus Foote presents Rank Constrained Diffeomorphic Density Motion Estimation for Respiratory Correlated Computed Tomography

Wednesday, Sep 27

12:00pm: Visualization Seminar: Pavol Klacansky and Will Usher presents

Friday, Sep 29

12:00pm: SCI Seminar: Jim Blinn presents My Hobby: Making Algebraic Geometry More Visual

2:00pm: Distinguished Lecture: Jessie Kennedy , Dean, Research & Innovation, Edinburgh Napier University presents Visualization and Taxonomy

Monday, Oct 2

12:00pm: Imaging Seminar: Kris Campbell presents Efficient Parallel Transport in the Group of Diffeomorphisms via Reduction to the Lie Algebra

Tuesday, Oct 3

12:25pm: NERG Seminar: Greg Clark, Jake George, David Kluger; plus HAPTIX (amputee) subject presents Restoring sensorimotor capabilities after long-term hand amputation in humans.

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2017 Image-Based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) summer course - July 2017

Graduate Studies

The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute is an exciting place to do your graduate studies. We currently have over 80 graduate students from multiple departments working with SCI Institute faculty on their degrees. If you are a highly motivated student pursing a graduate degree (Ph.D. or M.S.), please apply to the Ph.D. program in:

Open Positions

Jan 31, 2017

Post Doctoral Fellow (Applying Uncertainty Quantification to Multiscale Material Science Engineering Systems) - PRN14211B

May 03, 2017