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NCSA Initiates Faculty Fellows Brown Bag Seminar Series

released October 24, 2000

The NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows Program (FFP) initiated its monthly Brown Bag series on Oct. 18 when Eric Loth of the University of Illinois' department of aeronautical and astronautical engineering talked about his FFP project, "Virtual Rendering of Multiphase Flows." Loth's research project has two main objectives: to construct virtual reality software specifically designed for rendering multiphase flows, and to make this software available to all multi-phase researchers. Loth works with NCSA visualization and virtual environments specialist Bill Sherman on the project.

The FFP offers one-year fellowships to UIUC faculty who are engaged in research projects that would benefit from access to the world-class computing facilities and expert staff at NCSA. The program is funded by NCSA, the University of Illinois, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. The FFP also brings new interdisciplinary research projects to NCSA and the Alliance.

The Brown Bag seminar series gives this year's Faculty Fellows an opportunity to discuss their research projects with other university faculty and staff, and with the NCSA/Alliance community. Through the series Faculty Fellows also have the chance to interact informally with their peers and to foster additional collaborations. All Brown Bag seminars will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Beckman Institute. The next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 28, when Stephen Downie of the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences speaks about his project "Toward a Robust and Large-Scale Music Retrieval System: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Development and Evaluation."

The full-year's Brown Bag Seminar schedule is available at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/campusrelations/FFP/FFP_BB.html. Upcoming sessions in the series will be Webcast. Check the NCSA Campus Relations homepage (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/campusrelations/) for details.

 

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