| Presentations at
OzVis'01 |
Wednesday 12 December |
| Dr Robert Gingold and Drew
Whitehouse from ANU started the first meeting in visualisation in
Australia: OzVis'01.
Bernard Pailthorpe, Ben Simons and Nicole Bordes
presented their work along with researchers from the University of
Queensland, RMIT, ANU.
OzVis'02 will be held in Sydney for the 10th
anniversary of VisLab.
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| Work experience
student |
10 - 14 December |
| Sharon Little from Ascham
School worked on
a modern art web site. |
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| Presentation by
Bernard Pailthorpe |
Wednesday 5 December |
| Invited talk to the
University of Sydney and Microsoft Research Asia - Beijing |
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| Vacation scholarships
in VisLab |
Monday 3 December |
- Five students will join VisLab this summer under the
vacations scholarship scheme.
- Shelley Wickham (2nd year math and physics) will
work on the high resolution display;
- Richard Brickacek (3rd year science) and Nathan
Ford (3rd year computer science) on 3D imaging of the liver;
- Scott McMillan (1st year computer science) will
implement graphics software for multiple displays;
- Chris Ormerod (2nd year math and physics) will
work on archetype analysis.
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| Presentations at UQ
and JCU |
28-30 November |
| Bernard Pailthorpe and Nicole
Bordes presented their work at the University of Queensland (dept of
Mathematics) and James Cook University - Townsville (dept of computer
science).
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| Archaeology
presentation at Sydney |
Tuesday 27 November |
| Professor Roland Fletcher
gave a presentation on Angkor at VisLab ATP. The Vice Chancellor Gavin
Brown opened the presentation with a few words.
Click here to see
some pictures of the event.
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| Darren Kelly joins
VisLab |
Monday 26 November |
| Dr Darren Kelly has joined
VisLab on a part-time basis. He will work on interfaces between humans
and computers. |
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| Dr Mike Pike in VisLab |
Thursday 22 November |
| Dr Mike Pike, director of the
Molecular Graphics Laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute visited
VisLab on his way back to the USA. |
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| SC Global |
November 14-16 |
VisLab was one of the access
grid nodes participating to SC Global. The Access Grid linked sites on
six continents with SC Conference held at Denver.
The VisLab node tuned in to the technical program in Denver.
Researchers from several universities in Australia met in VisLab to
present their own work and participate in panel discussions to the rest
of the world.
Participants included Prof. K. Burrage (UQ-QPSF), Prof.
W. Appelbe (VPAC), Prof. L. Botten (UTS), Dr A Wendelborn (U Adelaide),
Prof. R. McPhaedran (USyd), Dr J.O'Callaghan (APAC). Click here for more details.
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| SV3 students
presentations |
Friday 2 November |
| The SV3 students presented
their work. A selection of projects is available here. |
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| Presentation at
Charles Sturt University |
Monday 29 October |
| B. Pailthorpe gave a talk at
the workshop organised at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. |
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| Presentation by
Bernard Pailthorpe at Asia Display / IDW'01 |
16 - 19 October |
| Bernard Pailthorpe and Nicole
Bordes presented their work on the high resolution display at the Asia
Display / IDW'01 conference in Nagoya. The paper is entitled "High
resolution display with uniform illumination". Click here for more details. |
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| Work experience
student |
8 - 12 October |
| Michael Isidro from Sydney
Boys High School did his work experience in VisLab. He worked on
archaeological data and made a web site. |
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| Nicole Bordes joins
VisLab |
Monday 1 October |
| Dr Nicole Bordes joined
VisLab as a senior lecturer. She will be teaching the Scientific
Visualisation 3 class and will work on the high resolution display. |
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| Frank Gilfeather
visits VisLab |
Monday 8 October |
| Dr Frank Gilfeather,
Executive Director of the High Performance Computing Education and
Research Center at the University of New Mexico visited VisLab to talk
about among other things education programs between his center and
VisLab. |
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| Presentation by Chris
Ormerod at HPC Asia |
September 24-28 |
| Chris Ormerod presented his
work "Characterising coupled map lattices" with co-authors
Bordes and Pailthorpe at HPC Asia. Click
here for more details. |
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| Carl Kesselman in
VisLab |
Friday 28 September |
| Carl Kesselman from
USC/Information Sciences Institute, also known as infoman and
father of Globus came to VisLab. |
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| Peta Seaton MP in
VisLab - ATP |
Thursday 27 September |
| Peta Seaton MP, Shadow
Minister for the Environment visited VisLab. |
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| Prof. P. Eades gives
a lecture in VisLab |
Wednesday 12
September |
| Prof. P. Eades from Computer
Science at USyd gave a lecture to the SV3 students on his research in
information visualisation. |
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| Education forum with
Prof. Rubin Landau and Dr Richard Hirsh. |
Friday 21 September |
| Research and Education Forum
with Prof. Rubin Landau, Oregon State University and Dr Richard Hirsh,
NSF.
- Program: School of Physics Slade Lecture Theatre
(LT8)
- 2.00 - 2.50 pm Prof Rubin Landau, Oregon State
University, USA Developing Components and Curricula for a Research-Rich
Undergraduate Degree in Computational Physics
- 2.50 - 3.20 pm Dr Richard Hirsh, Deputy Director,
Division of Advanced Computational Infra-structure and Research,
National Science Foundation, USA. NSF Distributed Terascale Facility
- 3:20 - 3.45 pm Afternoon Tea
- 3.45 - 4.45 pm HPC Forum
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| Access Grid virtual
meeting |
Tuesday 11 September |
| As part of the testing of the
Australian node in VisLab, a virtual meeting was held between
Manchester - UK, Fairbanks - Alaska, Beijing and Sydney. |
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| Presentation by
Bernard Pailthorpe |
Wednesday 5 September |
| Prof. Bernard Pailthorpe gave
a lecture to the Australian Museum Royal Society on trends in
scientific visualisation. |
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| Showcase on computer
simulation and virtual environments organised by Bernard Pailthorpe |
Friday 31 August |
| The showcase on computer
simulation and virtual environments will feature short five-minute
presentations from researchers of the university of Sydney as well as
open forums. Discussions will conclude the day.
Uni
News article here
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| Dr Kieran Larkin
gives a lecture in VisLab |
Friday 31 August |
| Dr Kieran Larkin from Canon
Australia gave a lecture to the SV3 students on his research in image
processing. |
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| First Access Grid in
Australia is in VisLab |
Wednesday 29 August |
The first Australian Access
Grid became operative in VisLab.
Click here for
more details on the access grid node in VisLab.
Uni
News article. |
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| Workshop:
Introduction to the APAC National Facility |
2 Sessions only.
23-24 August |
| Sydney VisLab. Suite 111.
National Innovation Centre. Australian Technology Park. Eveleigh NSW
2006.
The aim of this course is to introduce prospective
users of the APAC National Facility to the procedures and options for
achieving maximum benefit from using the Compaq Alphaserver SC. The
course will be run in two sessions of 3 hours each with the second
session covering the more advanced topics of parallel programming and
debugging and profiling. Topics to be covered are as follows and much
of this material will be presented as "hands-on" exercises for
practical experience.
Topics include: Applying for accounts, Logging in and
Environment, Compiling and linking Fortran, C and C++ programs, Using
the batch queuing system, Filesystems, I/O on the SC, Using the Machine
in Parallel, Debugging and profiling.
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| Horst Kiechle |
23 August |
Horst Kiechle was successful
in his application to the New Media Fund of the Australia Council for
the Arts. The Fellowship will fund Horst's research activities for a
period of two years starting in January 2002. Sydney VisLab will host
the Fellowship.
The proposed research has the working title "Subliminal Structures".
It will investigate how the shapes, patterns and structures of the
built environment might influence people within it.
More information is
available on Horst's webpage.
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| Steve Reinsch |
8 - 19 August |
| Steve Reinsch from JVC came
to work on the new high resolution display being built at VisLab
Physics. |
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| Scientific
Visualisation III class starts 1st August 2001 |
Wednesday 1 August |
|
The number of students enrolled in SV3 was so large that
two lab sessions had to be scheduled.
- The SV3 timetable for 2001 is:
- Lectures:
- Wednesday: 8-9 am in LT1
- Friday: 1-2 pm in LT1
- Labs (choose 2 hours from):
- Tuesday: 12-3 pm in VisLab
- Wednesday: 9-11 am in VisLab
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| Presentation at
SciCode'01 |
30 July - 3 August |
| Prof. B. Pailthorpe was
invited to talk at the SciCode'01 conference in Vancouver, BC. |
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| Professor Greg McRae
visits VisLab |
12-13 July |
| MIT Bayer Professor of
Chemical Engineering Greg McRae visited VisLab and gave a few lectures
at the University of Sydney. |
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| William Bleha visits
VisLab |
12-18 July |
| William Bleha, Vice President
of Engineering at JVC visited VisLab to talk about the high resolution
display being built in VisLab Physics |
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| Dr Amy Braverman
visits VisLab |
Wednesday 11 July |
| Dr Amy Braverman,
statistician at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
visited us. She was interested in talking about scientific
visualization of large-scale visualisation and multi-angle,
multi-spectral remote sensing data. |
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| International Science
School |
4-11 July |
| VisLab was part of the
centers the the ISS students visited. Under the guidance of Steve Manos
and Chris Ormerod they solved some mathematics problems using Matlab. |
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| Presentation at the
American Physics Society |
25 - 28 June |
| Prof. Pailthorpe was invited
to talk at the American Physics Society conference in Boston. |
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| NSW Rural Fire
Service visit |
Wednesday 6 June |
| NSW Rural Fire Service
visited VisLab ATP to gather an understanding of the concept of
immersive visualisation to assist them integrating it with their future
training developments. |
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| VisLab work featured
at APAC opening |
Tuesday 15 May |
| Some of the work done in
VisLab was featured at the APAC
opening in Canberra. |
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| Seminar at Canon
Research Australia |
Tuesday 24 April |
| B. Pailthorpe gave a seminar
on scientific visualisation to the the imaging group at Canon Research.
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| Bob Sinkovits |
20 April - 2 May |
Bob Sinkovits from the San
Diego Supercomputer Center came to teach a class on parallel
comnputing, COMP 4601.
Notes for the
class can be found here. |
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| Seminar: Java based
GUI for Scalable Vis Tools. |
Thursday 12 April |
| Alex Decastro from the San
Diego Super-computing Center (UCSD) will talk about a project he's been
working on: the Multi-Mesh Viewer Software Application
at VisLab-ATP on Thurs 12 Apr. 11am.
The Multi-Mesh Viewer supports interactive viewing of
multi-modal, multi-resolution volume data. It allows users to
interactively view and manipulate large-scale volume data, then
generate volume rendered images.
The Multi-Mesh Viewer integrates with the NPACI
Scalable Visualization Toolkits to access large-scale volume data. In
particular, it uses the Mesh Toolkit to scalably access mesh data. The
Multi-Mesh Viewer also interfaces with the VISTA Volume Renderer to
generate volume rendered images.
The client is implemented as a Java application to run
on any platform that supports the Java Runtime Environment (JRE 1.3)
and Java3D. Current implementations exist for MS Windows and SGI Irix.
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| VisLab Animation on TV |
Monday 19 March |
| We've just heard that the The Revolution in Communications
(about Photonics in Australia) will be broadcast on SBS TV(Channel
28) on the 9th of May at 3pm. It includes over 6 minutes of
computer animation, produced here at VisLab. |
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| xgraph |
Wednesday 14 March |
A new version of xgraph into
/usr/local/bin. The old xgraph is now called "xgraph.old".
The new version has been compiled with "-mips1", which means that it
will run on any sgi. xgraph.old is "mips2" which means it wouldn't run
on the purple-boxes (indigo's). |
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| Work experience
students |
Monday 12 March |
| Two high school students Joey
and Edward started their work experience in VisLab. They worked on the
web page of the Physics workshop. |
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| Presentation at the
School of Physics, University of Sydney |
Monday 12 March |
| Professor Bernard Pailthorpe
and Dr Nicole Bordes gave a seminar "scalable visualisation of
galaxies, oceans, brains" at the Monday colloquium. |
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| Presentation to the
department of Chemistry, USyd |
Friday 9 March |
| Prof. Pailthorpe gave a
seminar in the department of inorganic chemistry at the University of
Sydney about VisLab and its role in the University. |
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| SciLab |
Friday 9 March |
SciLab is now installed in
/apps/scilab. You can run scilab by typing: scilab
SciLab has also been added to the Applications Menu of the vislab
system toolchest.
Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical
computations developed at INRIA. For more info, go to the Scilab web site.
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Record Number of Students for Scientific Computing III
Class
22 science students enrolled in the Scientific Computing
3 this year. The demand was so large that two lab sessions had to be
scheduled.
- The timetable for 2001 is:
- Lectures:
- Wednesday: 1-2 pm in LT5
- Thursday: 9-10 am in LT4
- Labs:
- Tuesday: 2-4 pm in VisLab
- Wednesday: 2-4 pm in VisLab
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| SC3 class |
Wednesday 28 February |
Scientific Computing 3 class
starts.
Click here for
timetable, lecture notes and information. |
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| UNSW Bachelor Of
Digital Media class |
Wednesday 28 February |
| The class of students from the
UNSW Bachelor Of Digital Media starts today from 1:30-4pm at Vislab
ATP. |
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| Conference |
Tuesday 27 February |
| Prof. B. Pailthorpe gave a
tour of VisLab to Prof. P. Eades and his group. |
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| Workshop at the
University of Wollongong |
Monday 26 February |
| Prof Pailthorpe was an invited
speaker at the University of Wollongong. |
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| Presentation by
Bernard Pailthorpe and Nicole Bordes |
Friday 23 February |
| Prof. B. Pailthorpe and Dr N.
Bordes gave a seminar at the Australian Photonics CRC on recent
developments in Visualisation. |
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| Melinda Rackham wins
an award at the Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival in Germany |
Thursday 25 January |
| Melinda Rackham, a Vislab
user whilst finishing her PhD at the College Of Fine Arts and having
started working on 'Empyrian' here at Vislab won the SoundSpace
award for 'empyrian' at the Stuttgart Film Festival in Germany.
Click here
for more info on empyrean
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| Tony Benson |
Thursday 1 February |
| Tony Benson, Chairman of SEA,
Grouputer Corporation and Marketboomer Pty Ltd, Founder and Director of
Bullant Technology visited VisLab. |
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| New Equipment |
Monday 15 January |
| VisLab ATP lab is upgraded
with new SGI O2's. |
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| Harry Ammons |
Monday 8 January |
| Harry Ammons from the San
Diego Supercomputer Center visited VisLab to talk about developments at
SDSC on the access grid. |
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| RIEF Grant 2001 |
January |
| Sydney VisLab was awarded $550,000 by ARC
to build several displays including a high resolution display,
in collaboration with UTS, UNSW and UWS. |
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| Vacation scholaships |
Tuesday 2 January |
| Two students have started work
in VisLab with a vacation scholarship. Chris Ormerod, 1st year physics
and maths student is working on spatial chaos; Vicky Safouris is
working on the visualistion of aerosols in Los Angeles. |
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| New Director |
Tuesday 2 January |
| Prof Bernard Pailthorpe returns as
the Director of Sydney VisLab. |
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