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  • 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.