Meeting Agenda

• 6:00 to 6:25 - Meet and greet
• 6:25 - 6:30 - Brief announcements
• 6:30 to 7:40 - Speaker (see abstract and bio below)
• 7:40 to 8:00 - Q&A, Networking

Topic: A Visual Tour from the NanoWorld to the Inter-Galactic Medium (and back)

Abstract -- We shall begin our tour in the three-dimensional world of the nano-machinery of life, such as ion channels, the ribosome, and viruses, and see glimpses of their function. The next stop shall be in exploration of the human body from within. We shall then fly over an oil-field, as well as skim over our earth's majestic oceans, before heading to the stars, galaxies and beyond. The return shall be equally comfortable.

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Biography -- Chandrajit Bajaj is a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds the CAM Chair in Visualization and is Director of the Center for Computational Visualization. Dr. Bajaj earned his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, in 1980 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1983 and 1984 respectively from Cornell University Dr. Bajaj serves on the Editorial Boards for ACM Transactions on Graphics and the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications. Dr. Bajaj's research interests include Computer Graphics, Computational Mathematics, Geometric Design, and Scientific Data Visualization. His current research focus includes the following: the design and analysis of data structures and compression algorithms that support multi-resolution approximations of very large geometries and multiple function fields, an integrated parallel framework for domain modeling, simulation, interrogative visualization, and user interfaces for navigation and interrogation. Dr. Bajaj's web page is at the URL http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/bajaj/

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The ACES building is located at the southeast corner of Speedway and 24th Street. In this map of the east mall area, it is the building marked TAY. Entry into the ACES building is marked in this accessibility map of the east mall area. The Visualization Lab (ACES 2.404a) is located on the ground floor of the building.

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