VISUALIZATION FRIDAY FORUM

Fridays 12-1pm LSRC D106

Lunch Served

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September 16 - A Whole New Way of Seeing:  Transforming Art History Through Visualization Technologies

Mark Olson, Sheila Dillon, and Caroline Bruzelius

Art, Art History and Visual Studies

Wired! is an interdisciplinary team of faculty who are investigating how visualization technologies can transform their standard research and teaching practices. This talk will present some ongoing Wired! projects and describe which technologies have proven most useful. 

We are hosting a series of workshops about using Google Sketchup, Maps and Earth for modeling historical sites and visualizing historical research. These workshops begin on Friday, September 23rd.

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September 23 -Visualization as an active research & teaching tool:  Improving 3D models of macromolecular structures and teaching students about structural biology

Jeremy Block

Biochemistry

Advances in computer technology over the last half century have changed all of our day-to-day lives.  In the sciences, computer technology has had similar impacts on each domain.  As a structural biologist, the role of computer technology in the determination and validation of 3D models of protein structures has benefits stemming not only from increased computing power which allows for the proper handling and analysis of large biological datasets; computers revolutionized the way we visualize macromolecular structures. 

While completing my thesis work, I investigated and developed new methods to validate and improve the 3D models of macromolecular structures determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR).  Throughout the course of my work, I implemented visualization techniques, engaged visualization experts to find ways to improve my work, and devised ways to use visualization to more effectively communicate my work to others in both formal presentations and in teaching sessions to students at varying levels of training. 

In this talk, I'll focus on the different visualization tools, techniques, and facilities I have used in recent years to advance my research and to teach others about my work.  In short, these are some of the many lessons that visualization has taught me.

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September 30 - Oral History Interviews with Women in Duke Medicine

Jessica Roseberry

Duke Medical Center Library and Archives

The Women in Duke Medicine oral history project looks in depth at just some of the many women in Duke Medicine, particularly those who were early or first in their fields.  This talk will focus on the Duke Medical Center Archives' online exhibit which was created as a portal for experiencing these interviews.  The project is also featured on the Link Media Wall in an exhibit designed by Sarah Goetz (Visual Studies Dept) .

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October 7 -Fall Break

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October 14 -Award-Winning Visualizations from Biology, Physics, Geology, Airflow, and Turbopumps

Russell Taylor

Computer Science, UNC

In this year's Visualization in the Sciences class, we had a competition for each of the assignments for the visualization that best helped its viewers answer the scientists' questions.  I'll be presenting the "best of" projects from each of the five homeworks.  One of the teams went on to improve on this work and submitted to the IEEE Visualization Challenge, winning an honorable mention.  I'll show the final submission and video and talk about the changes made.  Finally, I'll talk about an in-depth collaboration with Kerry Bloom from Biology looking at the structure of yeast; this included artists, physicists, computer scientists, and an engineer.  One result of this collaboration was another award-winning visualization, this one receiving an honorable mention from the NSF/Science competition.  Time permitting, I'll give a preview of our submissions for this years' contest.

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November 4 - Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy

Joseph Lo and Steven Chall

Radiology and RENCI

We present a knowledge-based approach to radiation treatment planning, in which large, complex patient image data sets are matched and visualized. This is a collaboration between Shiva Das of Duke radiation oncology, Joseph Lo of Duke radiology, and Steve Chall of RENCI@Duke. We will introduce the clinical challenge and our proposed solution, and we will also provide a live demonstration of the visualization tool.

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November 18 -Analyzing and visualizing "big historical data"

Richard Marciano and Chien-Yi Hou

Digital Innovation Lab , UNC

As part of a startup project at the DIL lab, sponsored by the College of Arts and Science at UNC,
    called "Connecting People, Past, and Place", we are exploring the challenge of automating and
    crowdsourcing the extraction and georeferencing of household records and historical maps.  This
    includes the visualization of large collections of cultural data. We will discuss several ongoing
    projects and hope to spur some good conversations!

Here is a post from the National Archives about Richard's CI-BER project.

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November 25 - Thanksgiving

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December 2 - Mobile Apps: Concept to Client

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For more information, please contact Rachael Brady

Organized by The Visualization Technology Group (VTG),

Sponsored by the Research Computing Center (RCC)

and The Department of Computer Science