In the latest release of their software development kit, NVIDIA's reference implementation of the isosurface extraction technique known as marching cubes uses the scan primitive from the Ultravis-developed CUDPP library.

A special session of CTS 2008 on "Visualization and Collaboration" is organized partly by Kwan-Liu Ma. CTS 2008 will be held in Irvine, CA during May 19-23. More information about this session will be available soon.

The Eurographics/IEEE VGTC 2008 Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV '08) will be held in Crete, Greece during April 14-15. Kwan-Liu Ma is a Program Chair.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma will give a Plenary Speech at the 2008 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, which will be held in Atlanta, GA March 12-14.

Professor Han-Wei Shen organized a MiniSymposium on Ultra-Scale Parallel Visualization for the 2008 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, which will be held in Atlanta, GA March 12-14.

The 2008 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis '08) will be held in Kyoto, Japan during March 4-7. Kwan-Liu Ma is a Program Chair.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma gave an invited talk at the Visualization and Data Anaysis 2008 Conference in San Jose, CA, on January 28th.

"Meet the Scientists" Panel is a unique event the Ultravis Institute will bring to the IEEE Visualization 2007 Conference.

ACM SIGGRAPH presents Professor Nelson Max, an investigator of the Ultravis Institute, with the 2007 Steven A. Coons Award for outstanding creative contributions o to computer graphics.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma has been awarded the 2007-2008 UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Mid-Career Research Faculty Award.

Professor John Owens of Ultravis Institute has won the Graphics Hardware 2007 Best Paper Award.

Professor John Owens of Ultravis Institute delivered a lecture at SIGGRAPH 2007 on August 3rd for the course titled "GPGPU: General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware"

The Ultravis Institute All-Hands Meeting was held on August 10th at UC Davis.

The Workshop on Feature Extraction and Tracking (FET 2007) was held at UC Davis during August 1-2.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma gave invited talks at the DOE Computer Graphics Forum on April 30th and May 1st.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma gave an invited lecture on "Envisoning Scientific Data: Challenges and Research" at UCLA on April 23rd.

The Ultravis Institute kickoff meeting was held on February 17 at UC Davis.

Hongfeng Yu and Kwan-Liu Ma, members of Ultravis Institute participating in SC'06 High-Performance Analytics Challenges won the first place. November 14, 2006.

The First Workshop on Ultra-Scale Visualization was held on November 13 in Tampa Convention Center, Florida, in conjunction with SC06.  All presentation slides can be downloaded from the Workshop web site.

On September 7, 2006 DOE announced $60 Million in new SciDAC projects.  The Ultra-Scale Visualization Institute is one of the four new Institutes funded by the SciDAC program.  For more information, refer to the press release.