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== Open Discussion and Semester Planning ==
== Open Discussion and Semester Planning ==
Hello everyone! VisLunch is back for this semester.  
VisLunch is back for this semester and will be organized by Guoning
VisLunch provides you (graduate students, potdocs, faculties)
Chen and myself. If you are unaware, VisLunch provides everyone at SCI
a platform to present your research work or the latest  
a platform to present their research work and/or the latest
development in the community that you think could benefit
developments in the community that could benefit the rest of us. In
the rest of us. Also, you can benefit from the comments and  
addition, the meeting is a great forum to give practice talks and
suggestions on your presentation.  
improve your presentation skills. Plus there's _free_ pizza, and it's
Therefore, please let Josh and me know if  
a nice opportunity to meet new people. Please let either me or
Guoning know if


1) You submitted your work to a research venue (e.g. Siggraph2010) and would like to  
1.) You've submitted work to a research venue (e.g. recent conferences
share your ideas;
like Siggraph) and would like to share your ideas;


2) You are preparing a submission to the upcoming venue (e.g. Vis2010, SGP, etc.)
2.) You are preparing a submission to an upcoming venue (e.g. IEEE
and would like to get some feedback or help;
Vis, Siggraph Asia, etc.) and would like to get some feedback;


3) You are going to present your work in a venue and need some feedback
3.) Your work has been accepted to some venue and you are preparing a
or help of your talk;
presentation you would like to practice; or


or 4) You recently read a new publication and are fascinated by the ideas  
4.) You've recently read a new publication and are fascinated by the
and wish to share them with the rest of us;
ideas and wish to share them with the rest of us.


Please consider volunteering to give a presentation at some point!
We're hoping that there will be enough presenters so that we don't
cancel any future weeks.
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Revision as of 20:11, 27 January 2010

This semester Guoning Chen and Josh Levine will be responsible
for organizing the VisLunch sessions. Please feel free to contact them
for any question regarding VisLunch or for scheduling a talk:

Information regarding the VisLunch sessions will posted on this wiki page (http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/VisLunch/Spring2010)

Open Discussion and Semester Planning

VisLunch is back for this semester and will be organized by Guoning Chen and myself. If you are unaware, VisLunch provides everyone at SCI a platform to present their research work and/or the latest developments in the community that could benefit the rest of us. In addition, the meeting is a great forum to give practice talks and improve your presentation skills. Plus there's _free_ pizza, and it's a nice opportunity to meet new people. Please let either me or Guoning know if

1.) You've submitted work to a research venue (e.g. recent conferences like Siggraph) and would like to share your ideas;

2.) You are preparing a submission to an upcoming venue (e.g. IEEE Vis, Siggraph Asia, etc.) and would like to get some feedback;

3.) Your work has been accepted to some venue and you are preparing a presentation you would like to practice; or

4.) You've recently read a new publication and are fascinated by the ideas and wish to share them with the rest of us.


Please consider volunteering to give a presentation at some point! We're hoping that there will be enough presenters so that we don't cancel any future weeks.


Feb. 12, 2010

- Applying Manifold Learning to Plotting Approximate Contour Trees (VIS paper discussion)

- Speaker: Hao Wang (SCI), http://www.cs.utah.edu/~haow/


- ?? (VIS paper discussion)

- Speaker: Claurissa Tuttle (SCI) http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/tuttle.html

- Where: Conference Room 3760

- When: Friday noon (02/12)


Feb. 5, 2010

- Fiedler Trees for Multiscale Surface Analysis

In this work we introduce a new hierarchical surface decomposition method for multiscale analysis of surface meshes. In contrast to other multiresolution methods, our approach relies on spectral properties of the surface to build a binary hierarchical decomposition. Namely, we utilize the Fiedler vector of the Laplace-Beltrami operator to recursively decompose the surface. For this reason, we coin our surface decomposition the Fiedler tree. Using the Fiedler tree ensures a number of attractive properties, including: mesh-independent decomposition, well-formed and equi-areal surface patches, and noise robustness. We illustrate how the hierarchical patch decomposition may be exploited for generating multiresolution high quality uniform and adaptive meshes, as well as being a natural means for carrying out wavelet methods.

- Speaker: Matt Berger (SCI), http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/bergerm.html

- Where: Conference Room 3760

- When: Friday noon (02/05)