Die Vorlesung “Computergrafik 2″ startet am 3.4.2012 um 15:30 im Raum 1/346. Die Übung zur Vorlesung startet erst in der darauf folgenden Woche.

Die Vorlesung “Interaktive Visualisierung von nichtskalaren Daten” startet am 11.4.2012 um 09:15 im Raum 1/368. Der Ablauf des Praktikums wird in der Vorlesung und einem Auftaktmeeting geklärt.

Die jeweiligen Skripte und Lehrmaterialien finden Sie auf der Homepage der Professur.

Again there is one open position available at the Visual Computing Laboratory, part of the Department of Computer Science at Chemnitz University of Technology. The (50% E13 TV-L) position is best suited for a PhD-student and at first limited to two years. As part of the DFG-project “SmoothViz: Visualization of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulation Data” the position will be in close collaboration with the Visualization and Computer Graphics Laboratory at Jacobs University in Bremen. Knowledge in the fields of visualization, computer graphics, and GPU programming is beneficial.

Applications should preferably be sent via email to Jun.-Prof. Dr. Paul Rosenthal at latest till 10.04.2012. Please feel also free to ask any questions via email.

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An der Juniorprofessur Visual Computing der Fakultät für Informatik ist im DFG-Projekt “SmoothViz: Visualization of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulation Data” zum nächstmöglichen Termin eine halbe Drittmittelstelle zunächst befristet für zwei Jahre als Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (50%; Entgeltgruppe E 13 TV-L) zu besetzen. Es handelt sich um ein Projekt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Jacobs University in Bremen.

Das Projekt verfolgt das Ziel die Arbeiten des bereits seit drei Jahren sehr erfolgreich laufenden Projektes für die Visualisierung von SPH Daten weiterzuführen. Dazu gehört das interaktive Verarbeiten von massiven SPH-Datensätzen und neue Visualisierungsmethoden für unstrukturierte Daten. Insofern sind Kenntnisse in den Bereichen Visualisierung, Computergrafik und parallele Programmierung (GPU) von Vorteil.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen, vorzugsweise als PDF-Dokument per Email, werden bis zum 10.04.2012 erbeten an Jun.-Prof. Dr. Paul Rosenthal. Weitere Informationen!

Die Nachklausur zur Vorlesung “Digitale Objektrekonstruktion” findet am 2.4.2012 um 17:15 Uhr im Raum B202 statt.

The members of the interdisciplinary competence center “Virtual Humans” have successfully applied for an ESF early-stage researcher group. The group consists of eight PhD-students and is entitled “The Smart Virtual Worker”. From 01.01.2012 till 31.12.2014 the members will develop new methods for the simulation of virtual workers and factories to effectively overcome the problems of todays aging mankind. The Visual Computing Group will be represented by Walentin Heft, who will be dealing with world modeling and visualization.

There are two full research positions (E 13 TV-L) for three years available at the Visual Computing Laboratory (http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/vcl/), part of the Department of Computer Science at Chemnitz University of Technology.

The first position should be filled as soon as possible and can be filled by a phd-student or post-doc. The position is integrated into the interdisciplinary competence center “Virtual Humans” (http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/forschung/virtual_humans/). Topics of the research will be the modeling of smart virtual workers and the visualization of multidimensional ergonomic measures related to their work. Applicants have to hold a computer-science related Master or Diploma degree.

The second position suited for a phd-student is part of the interdisciplinary research training group “CrossWorlds – Connecting Virtual and Real Social Worlds” (http://crossworlds.info/) which will start from 01.04.2012 on. Topics of the research will be related to the study of new ways of interaction and communication which are offered by the connection of virtual and real social worlds in comparison with the experience of immediate real interaction and communication. Applicants have to hold a computer-science related Master or Diploma degree.

For more information about the positions contact Paul Rosenthal (http://www.paul-rosenthal.de/?page_id=72). Applications should be preferably sent via email including the usual documents.

Die Vorlesung Digitale Objektrekonstruktion kann am 13.01.2012 nicht stattfinden und wird nach Terminabsprache nachgeholt.

Die Vorbesprechung für das Proseminar Visualisierung findet am 3.11.2011 um 10 Uhr im Büro B311 statt.

With the beginning of April 2011, Chemnitz University of Technology has decided to establish an interdisciplinary competence center concerned with the topic “Virtual Humans”. The consortium consisting of working groups from work science, computer science (including my work group), medial science and process automation will head for achieving significant research results pushing the state of the art in the modeling of virtual humans.

With the beginning of October 2010 I have left the Visualization and Computer Graphics Laboratory of Lars Linsen. I am happy to go the next step as assistant professor for “Visual Computing” at Chemnitz University of Technology. My future directions include the building of the new Visual Computing Laboratory and search for new cooperations, especially in the fields of visualization, high-performance computer graphics, and practice-oriented visual computing.

Last week i had a really nice day at the Airline Forum 2010, which is a conference hosted by Lufthansa Systems. Many impressive new things where presented.

I was invited to give an introductory talk to visualization. These talks I actually like a lot since you can really surprise people with nice and impressive pictures. A very famous picture, surely everybody in visualization community should know is the graph of Minard visualizing the march of Napoleon on Moscow. For me the birth of information visualization.

Minard’s famous graph showing the decreasing size of the Grande Armée as it marches to Moscow.