| Presentations at OzVis'01 |
Wednesday 12 December |
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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 |
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Sharon Little from Ascham School
worked on
a modern art web site.
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| Presentation by Bernard Pailthorpe |
Wednesday 5 December |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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