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Visualization - Data analysis with the human in the loop.

Series: CSA Distinguished Lecture

Speaker: Prof. Ingrid Hotz, Linkoping University, Sweden

Date/Time: Jan 13 11:00:00

Location: CSA Seminar Hall (Room No. 254, First Floor)

Abstract:
Effective analysis of increasingly large and complex data from simulations and experiments is a major step in the scientific process. If understanding or knowledge generation is the major goal of the process it is essential to keep the scientist in the loop. Practically this means building environments for scientific reasoning through interactive exploration of the data. This requires an effective interplay of automatic analysis methods providing some guidance through appropriate data abstraction and interaction methods that give the user control over the analysis process. Solutions must be found in close collaboration with the domain experts while developing generic tools and concepts that also can be adapted to other applications. In this talk, I will discuss a few visual analysis applications from our recent research including use cases from engineering, chemistry, and medicine.

Speaker Bio:
Ingrid Hotz is currently a professor at Linkoping University. She heads the Scientific Visualization group in the Department of Science and Technology (ITN). She has an M.S. degree in Theoretical Physics from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich Germany and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Her research interests are in the field of visual data analysis and range from basic research questions to solving visualization problems in real applications, e.g., engineering, physics, chemistry, and medicine. Her research builds on ideas and methods drawn from various areas of computer science and mathematics, such as computer graphics, computer vision, dynamical systems, computational geometry, and topological data analysis.

Host Faculty: Prof. Vijay Natarajan