LBNL/Visualization Group Presentations

Visualization Group Presentations

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2009

"Scalar Topology in Visual Data Analysis: Theory and Motivational Applications." G.H. Weber. IEEE VisWeek 2009 Tutorial Presentation. Oct 2009. Atlantic Cuty, NJ. (PDF)
"I/O Using H5Part." M. Howison. NERSC User Group Meeting, 8 Oct 2009, Boulder, CO. (PDF)
"Foghorns, Lighthouses and the Circuitous, Hazard-laden Path Towards Extreme Scale Data Analysis." E. Wes Bethel. Invited presentation at ICAP '09, the 10th International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference, 4 Sept 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA. (PDF)
"Linking Data Analysis and Visualization for the Analysis of 3D Gene Expression Data," Oliver Rübel, 2nd International Workshop on Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences 2009 (VMLS 2009), Bremerhaven, Germany, Jully 22-24, 2009 (PPT internal only)
"The Art and Science of Scientific Visualization." E. Wes Bethel. In LBNL Computer Sciences Summer Student Seminar Series,, Berkeley, CA, July 2009.
"Recent Advances in VisIt: AMR Streamlines and Query-driven Visualization." G.H. Weber. Invited presentation at Astronum 2009, Chamonix, France, July, 2009. (PDF)
"Visual Exploration of Turbulent Combustion and Laser-Wakefield Accelerator Simulations." G.H. Weber. Invited presentation at Paul Scherer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland, Jun 2009. (PDF)
"The Contour Spectrum Revisited." G.H. Weber Invited talk at Dagstuhl Scientific Visualization Seminar, Schloss Dagstuhl (Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik), Wadern, Jun 2009. (PDF forthcoming)
"Occam's Razor and Petascale Visual Data Analysis." E. Wes Bethel. In SciDAC 2009 Program Conference, San Diego, CA, June 2009. Featured presentation.
"Feature Tracking Using Reeb Graphs." G.H. Weber. DOE Computer Graphics Forum. April, 2009. Monterey, CA. (PDF)
"Machine learning on accelerator simulation data". D. Ushizima. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 20, 2009, Monterey, CA. (PDF)
"High Performance Multivariate Visual Data Exploration for Extremely Large Data," Oliver Rübel, DOE Computer Graphics Forum, Monterey, CA, April 20, 2009.
"IO Performance of a Climate Modeling Application." M. Howison. NERSC Brown Bag Lunch, March 12, 2009, Oakland Scientific Facility, Oakland, CA. (PDF)
"Feature Tracking Using Reeb Graphs." G.H. Weber. Presentation at TopoInVis. Feb, 2009. Snowbird, UT. (PDF)

2008

"Integrating Data Analysis and Visualization." Colloquium Presentation. G.H. Weber.SCI Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, December 2008. (PDF)
"Automated Analysis for Detecting Beams in Laser Wakefield Simulations." D. Ushizima. International Conference on Machine Learning Applications, December 2008, San Diego CA. (PDF)
"Meet the SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies." E. Wes Bethel. In SciDAC Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation (ComPASS) Collaboration Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, December 2008.
"Current VACET/NERSC Analytics Efforts for Accelerator Modeling Data." G.H. Weber. In SciDAC Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation (ComPASS) Collaboration Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, December 2008. (PDF)
"High Performance Multivariate Visual Data Exploration for Extremely Large Data," Oliver Rübel, SuperComputing 2008 (SC08), Austin, TX, Nov. 15-21, 2008 (PPT internal only)
"Meet the SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies." E. Wes Bethel. In CS and Visualization PI Presentations, U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Germantown, MD, October 2008.
"Application of High-performance Visual Analysis Methods to Laser Wakefield Particle Acceleration Data," O. Rübel, Third Annual Workshop of the International Research Training Group IRTG 1131, Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets, September, 2008
"High Performance, Query-Driven Scientific Visualization: Finding Smaller Needles in Larger Haystacks." E. Wes Bethel. In University of Tulsa Research Seminar, Tulsa, OK, USA, September 2008.
"Parallelism in Graphics and Visualization." E. Wes Bethel. In University of Tulsa, CS6813 Guest Lecture, Tulsa, OK, USA, September 2008.
"Accelerating Visual Knowledge Discovery with Query-Driven Visualization." E. Wes Bethel. In SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (IS08), Visualization and Analytics for Science Discovery, San Diego, CA, USA, July 2008.
"Scientific Visualization: The Modern Oscilloscope for Seeing the Unseeable." E. Wes Bethel. In LBNL Summer Lecture Series, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 2008. (Video at YouTube, 4.5 stars!!)
"Modern Scientific Visualization is More than Pretty Pictures," E. Wes Bethel. Invited featured presentation at Astronum 2008, St. John, USVI, 10 June 2008.
"Visualization and Analysis of Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data with VisIt," G.H. Weber. Invited presentation at Astronum 2008, St. John, USVI, 10 June 2008. (PDF)
"Visualization Tools for Adaptive Mesh Reﬁnement Data." G.H. Weber. Talk at the Department of Energy Computer Graphics Forum (DOE CGF), Duck, NC, USA, April 2008. (PDF)
"Accelerating Remote Display Performance for GUI-based Applications" G.H. Weber. Talk at the Department of Energy Computer Graphics Forum (DOE CGF), Duck, NC, USA, April 2008. (PDF)
"Visual Data Analysis and Exploration at the Extreme Scale", E. Wes Bethel, invited presentation delivered at the 2008 DOE Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research Principal Investigators Meeting, April 1, 2008, Denver, CO (no PDF, sorry).
"Analysis of 3D Gene Expression Data," E. Wes Bethel, invited presentation delivered February 6, 2008, at the 2008 Joint Genomics Genomes to Life Awardee and Metabolic Engineering Workshop, Bethesda, MD. (no PDF, sorry)
Query-driven Visualization and Remote Visualization presentations given at DOE/Germantown on Feb 12, 2008.

2007

Topological Landscapes: A Terrain Metaphor for Scientific Data G.H. Weber. Presentation at IEEE Visualization 2007, Sacramento, CA.
Query-Driven Visualization Accelerates Scientific Insight. Presentation delivered at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Workshop held on October 12, 2007 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley, CA).
Occam's Razor and Petascale Visual Data Analysis. Presentation delivered at the 2007 Falls Creek Falls Conference, Nashville TN, September 26, 2007.
"Integrating Data Clutering and Visualization for the Analysis of 3D Gene Expression Data, O. Rübel, Second Annual Workshop of the International Research Training Group IRTG 1131, Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets, Sept. 9-11, 2007 (see publication LBNL-249E. (PDF), (BibTeX) )
FY07-COMPASS-AHM-VACET-Bethel.pdf – Visualization, VACET and the SciDAC COMPASS Accelerator Project. Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation All Hands Meeting, Fermi National Laboratory, Sept 17, 2007.
Visualization of Growth Curve Data from Phenotype Microarray Experiments presented at the 11th International Conference on Information Visualization IV 2007, Zürich, Switzerland, July 4-6, 2007.
Visualization Tools for Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows ASTRONUM-2007 (Paris, France, June 11-15, 2007) and the 4th High-End Visualization Workshop (University Center Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria, June 17-22, 2007).
Visual Data Analysis for the Berkeley Drosophila Transcription Network Project presented at the 2007 DOE Computer Graphics Forum, Peaceful Valley, Colorado, April 29-May 2, 2007.
NERSC Analytics Program Status and Update presented at the 2007 DOE Computer Graphics Forum, Peaceful Valley, Colorado, April 29-May 2, 2007.

2006

Scientific Data Analysis via Statistical Learning – Raquel Romano, SC06.
Query-Driven Visualization Accelerates Scientific Insight presentation at the SC06 Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization.
AVS/Express and VisIt training, NERSC Users' meeting, June12-13, PPPL.
NERSC Science-Driven Analytics Program Overview – 2006 DOE Computer Graphics Forum
Parallelism in Graphics and Visualization (4.5 MB, pdf) For UC Berkeley CS267 Spring 2006
"PointCloudXplore: Visual Analysis of 3D Gene Expression Data," O. Rübel, First Annual Workshop of the International Research Training Group IRTG 1131, Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets, (see publication LBNL-62336 (PDF), (BibTeX) ).
"PointCloudXplore: Visual Analysis of 3D Gene Expression Data Using Physical Views and Parallel Coordinates," Oliver Rübel, Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis 2006), May 8-10, 2006, Lisbob, Potugal (PDF) (PPT internal only)

2005

HDF_FastQuery-LBNL-Abs-TalkSlides.pdf HDF5-FastQuery presentation delivered to the 2005 HDF Workshop in SF, CA.
QDV-SC05.pdf Query Driven Visualization talk from SC05 LBNL Booth talks.
SC05-HPC-Analytics.pdf Talk slides from SC05 HPC Analytics Challenge.
SC05-Slideshow.ppt (13MB) a set of PPT slides used for a freely running "slide show" in the SC05 LBNL booth.
SC2005 HPC Analytics Challenge presentation, November 16, 2005.
Query-Driven Visualization, IEEE Visualization 2005, October 26, 2005.
Communication Analysis of Ultrascale Applications Joint DOE/NSA Review, July 19-20, 2005
Parallelism in Graphics and Visualization. For CS267 at UCB, Applications of Parallel Computers, May 9, 2005.
Query-Driven Visualization Overview. Given at the 2005 DOE Computer Graphics Forum.
General Vis Group Introduction, March 8th, 2005
February 17, 2005. "Finding the Unknown in a Sea of Data -- Leveraging Human Intuition with Scientific Visual Data Analysis". Delivered at the Berkeley Lab Washington DC Projects Office SeaOfData-021705.pdf (1.7MB)

2004

SC2004 Presentations

November 9, 2004. "Science-Driven Visualization Research Challenges." SC04-LBNL-Visualization.pdf (7MB).
November 9, 2004. "New NERSC Visualization Platform." Presented at the SC2004 NUG Meeting in Pittsburgh. SC04-NUG-Visualization.pdf.

Other Presentations

November 4, 2004. "Considerations for a Distributed Visualization Architecture (DiVA). JS_DiVA_DSD2004.pdf (4MB)
November 15, 2004. "Benefits of Martial Arts Training." Invited presentation delivered at the November 2004 LBNL Wellness Fair. Nov2004-MartialArts-WellnessFair.pdf.
October 28, 2004. "Summary of and Musings About the 1998 DOE Workshop on Interoperability." Presentation delivered to the NVAC Architecture Team at PNNL on October 28, 2004. NVAC-LBNL-Oct2004.pdf
June 24, 2004. "Visualization Tools and Techniques on Escher and Seaborg." Presentation delivered to at the July 24, 2004 NERSC User Group Meeting in Berkeley, CA. VisgroupJune04-NUG.pdf
Feb 24, 2004. Presentation to visitors from UK's Technology Watch Program. UKTechWatch-Feb2004.ppt.

2003

Supercomputing 2003 Presentations

Bandwidth Challenge Retrospective: 3 Years of Bandwidth Consumption BWC_retrospective.ppt

2003 Wide Area Collaborative Environments Presentations

VisPortal: Exploring Grid-Enabled Remote/Distributed Visualization through a Web/Portal Interface
VisPortalWACE.ppt

2003 DOE Computer Graphics Forum Presentations

2003 LBNL Site Report (MS PPT).
Report on the 2002 NERSC Visaulization Greenbook Workshop. Greenbook.ppt.
Presentation on the Visapult SC Bandwidth Challenge Hat Trick. VisapultSC-BWC.ppt
Presentation on the Visualization Frameworks Workshop (DIVA) held in May 2003 in Berkeley. DivaPanel.ppt

April 2003 - DOE/CIO Annual Information Technology Conference

Winzip file of PPTs and MPEG movies. Presentation on 2 April 2003 at the 2003 Annual Information Technology Conference sponsored by the Chief Information Officer of the DOE. This presentation presents a few visualization projects carried out by the DOE Office of Science, and highlights challenges for scientific visualization.

Older Presentations

NERSC Seminar Series

Using HDF5 for Scientific Data Analysis (September 2000) (PPT) (PDF)
Power of Scientific Visualization (March 1998)

ERSUG Meeting, Berkeley California

Visualization Group Report (April 6, 1998)
Report on Remote Visualization at NERSC (April 8, 1998)

High Energy Physics Visualization Conference

Visualization Beyond HEP (February 1998)

NERSC User Training

An Overview of Scientific Visualization at NERSC (March 1999)
How to Make an MPEG Movie (March 1999)

Role of Visualization in a Multidisciplinary Environment

This presentation explores the role of visualization in a multidisciplinary environment, like LBNL. 1997.

LBNL/NERSC CS 267 Lectures

Our View of Visualization (February 1997)
Visualize This! (March 1999)

Seeing is Not Believing!

Don't blissfully believe everything you see in scientific visualization. This talk was a solicited part of a panel at IEEE Visualization 1995, and describes a specific instance in which scientific visualization gave an incorrect answer due to bugs in the underlying commercial software! Summer 1995.

Virtual Reality and Scientific Computing

What is Virtual Reality, and how does it relate to Scientific Computing at LBNL? This presentation was prepared for one of our colleagues at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, and is known internally as the "leg talk." Summer 1995.

Talks

Visualizing Us (Informal UCB lunch talk, September 1999)
Conundrum Talks (Weekly talks host by us - canceled until further notice)