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Panel Discussions |
Panel discussions will be held on Tuesday, September 17th from
3:30-5:00 pm.
Topics:
Panel Members:
Hugues Hoppe (Microsoft
Research)
Hugues Hoppe is a researcher in the Computer Graphics Group at Microsoft Research.
His primary interests lie in the acquisition, representation, and rendering
of geometric models. For his PhD work on surface reconstruction from 3D scans,
he was selected as a finalist in the 1995 Discover Awards for Technological
Innovation. He subsequently developed multiresolution representations for geometry,
including piecewise smooth subdivision surfaces, progressive meshes, progressive
simplicial complexes, displaced subdivision surfaces, and geometry images. Most
recently, his research efforts have focused on surface parameterizations, to
exploit the new rasterization features of graphics hardware. Contributions include
lapped textures, normal-shooting parameterization, geometric-stretch minimization,
hierarchical solvers, and signal-specialized parameterization. His publications
include 16 papers at ACM SIGGRAPH. He received a BS summa cum laude in electrical
engineering in 1989 from the University of Washington, and a PhD in computer
science from the University of Washington in 1994.
Mark Shephard (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute)
Professor Mark S. Shephard is the
Samuel A. and Elisabeth C. Johnson, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Director
of the Scientific Computation Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Shephard has published over 200 papers in the area of automated and adaptive
finite element modeling. He is a fellow in, and past president of, the US Association
for Computational Mechanics; a fellow and member of the General Council of the
International Association for Computational Mechanics; a fellow of ASME and
an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He is editor of Engineering with Computers and
on the editorial board of five computational mechanics journals.
Robert Leland (Sandia National Laboratories)
Robert Leland completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Oxford University in 1989.
He then joined the Parallel Computing Sciences Department at Sandia National
Laboratories and pursued work principally in parallel algorithm development,
sparse iterative methods and applied graph theory, co-authoring Chaco, a software
package widely used for graph partitioning. In 1995 he worked for the White
House on modernization of the nation's tax collection system as one of fourteen
White House Fellows appointed that year by the President. He returned to Sandia
in 1996 to lead the Parallel Computing Sciences Department, a group researching
and developing algorithmic technology and software tools including the CUBIT
mesh generation toolkit. In 2001 he assumed leadership of Computer and Software
Systems, a group of four departments researching and developing supercomputing
hardware, operating systems, meshing and visualization.
Marsha Berger (New York University)
Marsha Berger received her PhD from Stanford University in 1982. Since then
she has been at the Courant Institute at New York University, where she is a
professor of computer science and mathematics, and is currently the Deputy Director
of the Institute. Her research interests are in adaptive methods for hyperbolic
equations, and parallel computing. She was elected to the National Academy of
Sciences in 2000. She spends summers with collaborators at NASA Ames, and is
a frequent visitor to the DOE labs in Berkeley and Livermore.
George Karniadakis (Brown University)
George Karniadakis is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University and
the Wallace Visiting Professor at MIT. He received his SM and PhD from MIT and
was postdoc at Stanford and Assistant Professor at Princeton. He has pioneered
spectral methods on unstructured grids and has perfomed the first parallel DNS
and LES of turbulence in complex geometries. He is the author of three books.
The opensource code NEKTAR that his group has developed is used around the world
for turbulence, MHD, flow-structure interactions, and parallel computing.