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In just a few weeks, the CINECA supercomputing centre in Bologna, Italy will be hosting a Workshop on Visualization of Large Scientific Data.

The scientific community is presently witnessing an unprecedented growth in the quality and quantity of data coming from simulations and real-world experiments. Moreover writing results of numerical simulations to disk files has long been a bottleneck in high-performance computing. To access effectively and extract the scientific content of such large-scale data sets (often sizes are measured in hundreds or even millions of Gigabytes) appropriate tools and techniques are needed. In-situ visualization libraries enable the user to connect directly to a running simulation, examine the data, do numerical queries and create graphical output while the simulation executes. It addresses the need of extreme scale simulation, eschewing the need to write data to disk. The workshop will bring together researchers, developers, computational scientists for cross-training and to discuss recent developments and future advancements in remote and in-situ visualization

I see that staff from Kitware (VTK, ParaView) will be there, and it seems they’ll be talking a lot about VisIt as well.  Both fabulous tools, but I find it interesting that CEI/Ensight isn’t mentioned anywhere…

via Workshop on Visualization of Large Scientific Data | Cineca.

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Researchers from Australia and New Zealand will be meeting at the Monash e-Research Center for OzVis 2009 where they’ll be discussing visualization research and outcomes.

This workshop will provide an occasion for participants to present research outcomes, share innovative ideas, publicize work and meet colleagues. It will be highly multidisciplinary, with participants from fields such as mathematics, geoscience, architecture, biology, medicine and astronomy presenting alongside computer graphics and visualization experts.

They keynote speaker will be Rob Lewis, foundation chair of X-Ray and Synchrotron Physics at Monash University.  The workshop will also be a joint session with the Live Cell Imaging Workshop.  Presentation abstracts are due by November 1st, 2009.

via Announcement – Abstracts due 1 November, Visualization Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.

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The University of Central Oklahoma is sponsoring a talk from Tony DeRose, leader of the Pixar studios research group and creator of the character “Geri“. It’s a free event beginning at 4pm on October 7th.

“The reality is mathematics is essential for modern technology including cell phones, CDs, DVDs and of course, animated movies. It is mathematics that brings the characters you see in the animated films to life,” said Simmons.

DeRose is one of the major designers responsible for the character Geri, who appears in the Oscar winning short film “Geri’s Game,” as well as in “Toy Story II.”

via Pixar designer to give Edmond talk | NewsOK.com.

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If you’re in Heidelberg, Germany during early March you might want to check out the VizBi conference on biological data visualization.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together, for the first time, researchers developing and using systems to visualize a broad range of biological data, including sequences, genomes, phylogenies, macromolecular structures, systems biology, microscopy, and magnetic resonance imaging. In selecting topics for this workshop, we have focused on the visualization of processed and annotated data in their biological context, rather than the processing of raw data.

They’ve got a long list of speakers, including a keynote by Ben Fry.  They’re currently accepting abstracts and applications.

An EMBO Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (VizBi).

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CGSociety has announced three new CGWorkshops starting up soon, with registration currently open.

• Architectural Visualization with Roger Cusson
• Face and Figure Painting with Don Seegmiller
• Compositing in Nuke with Steve Wright

All three courses are $499 each, and start soon so go register now while there’s still time!

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CGCon has announced the dates and locations their upcoming North American roadshow.

Building on the overwhelming success CG CON 2009 received in Los Angeles in July 2009, we now bring an exciting array of educational, inspirational and fun conferences to some of North-America’s hottest Computer Graphics hubs.

Featuring world leading experts in their respective fields, we will be teaching cutting edge techniques in Animation, Modeling and Digital Painting to digital artists in their home-town

The full schedule is available on their site.

via CG CON 2009.

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CGSociety has announced a pair of new workshops available for enrollment.  First is “Matte Painting” form David Luong:

Matte Painter, compositor and VFX guru David Luong is back with his updated Matte Painting workshop. This is an intermediate to advanced level matte painting class using Adobe Photoshop as well as using AfterEffects and/or Nuke to composite your design into your final project using Maya. Beginners are welcome as topics covered and class discussions are personal and open to different levels of knowledge. Though it has some beginner’s topics, it will quickly get into more advanced areas.

The second is Maya Scripting, with both MELScript and Python.

Lead Creature Technical Director and Maya guru Todd Widup is back to l take you under the hood of Scripting in Maya with MELScript and Python. Todd will take you into the top layer of the programming guts and scripts in both MELScript as well as the newly introduced Python script within Maya. By opening artists to the power of scripting, they can enhance their workflow with new automated tools, create macros to do repeated functions, as well as create interfaces and learn to interact with the operating system.

Both classes start on September 7th, and run for 8 weeks.  Hit CGSociety for full details.

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CGSociety has announced a new trio of upcoming workshops on their website.  the new entries:

• Technical Direction in XSI with Python , by Raffaele Fragapane
• Hollywood VFX for Live Action Integration, by Allan McKay
• Blend Shapes in Mudbox 2009, by Bryan Silva

The courses are each 8-week courses with a $499 registration fee.  Get full details on their site.

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Autodesk is presenting a pair of session in Sydney on June 11th talking about their new 2010 releases of Flame, Inferno, Smoke and Flare, and a meet-and-greet from Olivier Fontenay and Sebastian Gohs, colorists.

Session 1: Presentation of 2010 releases of Autodesk Flame, Inferno, Smoke and Flare, the new Flame and Inferno creative companion, all of which were launched at the NAB Show in Las Vegas last month!

Session 2: Meet Olivier Fontenay, Senior Colorist from EFILM Australia, and Sebastian Göhs, Lustre Colorist from CinePostproduction for the Lustre Super User Tour. Olivier is the man behind the awe-inspiring beauty of blockbuster Oscar-nominated Australia. He is also one of the earliest users of Lustre. Sebastian is the colorist behind Waltz with Bashir, the first animated film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Sessions start at 2pm, and run through 7 (break from 4-5).  Registration required.

Autodesk Experience the Power.

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A new workshop has been announced over at CGSociety, Blend Shapes in Mudbox 2009.  Led by Facial Modeler Bryan Silva, it’s an 8 week course exploring various theories of blend shape creation dealing with facial research and practical solutions.

This is not a class for beginners. Students should have a basic working knowledge of the required software for the class. Students will be supplied with a head mesh that they can use to create their own character head that will then be used for blend shape creation. Alternatively, students can create their own head meshes.

The workshop is set to start June 29th.

via CGWorkshop: Blend Shapes in Mudbox 2009.

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