CS295-5 Class Schedule

David Laidlaw
Brown University
Fall 1999


Topics for each class period. The "due" column shows highlights of the schedule for the term. See the readings page (**) for details on assignments for each class. There is something due for almost every class.

date All speaker due
9/7 Introduction, goals, organization, schedule, definition of visualization Laidlaw 
9/9 Review and discuss NSF proposal: ``Computer Graphics Tools for Understanding Tensor-Valued Volume Data: A Painting Metaphor,'' (Laidlaw) and related papers Laidlaw **
9/14 Review and discuss Whitaker Foundation preproposal (Ahrens). Dr. Ahrens will present his work and discuss his research strategy, and answer questions. Ahrens **
9/16 Review and discuss NSF KDI proposal ``3D Free-Form Models for Geometric Recovery and Applications to Archaeology'' (Cooper, Joukowsi, Mumford, Kimia, Laidlaw), evaluating project possibilities Laidlaw List of interesting project topics, **
9/21 Discuss project ideas Laidlaw CIT 506 **
9/23 Review and discuss NIH proposal ``Quantitative Inverse Electrocardiography,'' (Johnson). Dr. Johnson will present his work, discuss his research strategy, and answer questions. Johnson **
9/28 Review and discuss NSF CAREER proposal ``Perceptual Issues in Data Visualization: Conveying 3D Shape and Depth Through Texture,'' (Interrante) Laidlaw **
9/30 Understanding data -- MRI sampling Laidlaw **
10/5 Proposal presentations All Draft project proposal **
10/7 Proposal presentations All
10/12 Proposal presentations Laidlaw Written proposal evaluations due, Draft proposals back from Writing Fellow **
10/14 User studies Laidlaw **
10/19 Data modeling Laidlaw Final proposals **
10/21 Study section (evaluate, score, ``fund'' proposals) Final proposal evaluations **
10/26 Study section   **
10/28 Vis '99 Conference -- no regular class; optional makeup class (to be scheduled) will go over the elements of a research proposal budgetLaidlaw **
11/2 Vis '99 trip report; TufteLaidlaw; Beard **
11/4 StereoWalsky, Huttson **
11/9 Texture IGu, Reitsma **
11/11 Project progress, pictures, problems; Texture IIAll; Reiter; CIT 506 **
11/16 Volume RenderingPramod, Acevedo, Seguinconference abstract drafts **
11/18 Vestibular Cues; Marching CubesLaViola; Majzner; Interrante visiting **
11/23 Project progress, pictures, problems; Cone TreesAll; White abstracts back from Writing Fellow **
11/25 THANKSGIVING!  
11/30 2D FlowPrabhat, Guo **
12/2 3D FlowMoscovich, KeefeFinal abstracts **
12/7 Tensor; SegmentationZhang; Marai,Han **
12/9 Visualization Taxonomies Laidlaw Abstract evaluations
12/13 2-5pm ``exam,'' Final Presentations/Demos   
Copyright 1999 David H. Laidlaw