CCT Staff Showcased Innovations in Digital Media at SIGGRAPH Conference
CCT hosted a booth at the SIGGRAPH 2007 conference in San Diego Aug. 7-9 to display projects involving computerized graphics, visualization and animation. “SIGGRAPH is the premier conference to showcase new developments in digital media, and having a presence there is a good venue to tell people about the work going on at the University, particularly through the Red Stick International Animation Festival,†said CCT and School of Music Professor Stephen David Beck, who led the CCT group at SIGGRAPH. The CCT staff showed competition screenings from the 2007 Red Stick International Animation Festival, as well as a film on CCT's work to expand digital media in the Baton Rouge area, at the booth. CCT and Department of Computer Science Professor Brygg Ullmer attended and gave demonstrations of tangible and embedded interaction -- an emerging field of technology that manipulates physical objects (e.g., paper, blocks, furniture and clothing) to make them interfaces for digital information and scientific visualization. CCT also provided information about Chief Scientist Thomas Sterling's groundbreaking computer science course that is taught at LSU and broadcast using high-definition television and high-speed networks to locations around the world. The Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium, led by Red Stick International Animation Festival Director and CCT Assistant Director for Special Projects Stacey Simmons, joined CCT at SIGGRAPH to promote economic development opportunities for digital media businesses in the state and city. The consortium, which is led by CCT and comprised of LSU Office for Research & Economic Development, the Mayor-President's Office, Baton Rouge Area Foundation and Baton Rouge Area Chamber, is working to show the entertainment industry Baton Rouge is a lucrative area to locate video game design, animation, rendering and other digital media endeavors. The consortium is an outgrowth of CCT's Red Stick International Animation Festival. CCT in the News:
Researchers Join Forces at Conference
8-21-2007/WLOX
Improved technology has saved countless lives during hurricanes. And researchers are still trying to find ways to better pinpoint the tracks of hurricanes. This was one of the main topics at a meeting held by the Gulf States Alliance at the Beau Rivage Monday.
http://www.wlox.com/global/story.asp?s=6958824&ClientType=Printable
Upcoming Lectures:
• The all CCT scheduled for this Wednesday, Aug. 15, is canceled. The next all CCT meeting will be Sept. 19 at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338.
• Tinsley Oden, Associate Vice President for Research and Director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin, will give a lecture on “Adaptive Multiscale Modeling Of Large-Scale Molecular Systems†at CCT on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 4 p.m. in the Life Sciences Annex Building.
• The CCT Colloquium Series, held each Friday at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338, will return in the fall with Shantenu Jha in charge of the speaker line-up. If you have a speaker wish list, please send it to Shantenu at sjha@cct.lsu.edu.
Please Note:
• Classes for the fall semester begin this Monday, Aug. 27.
• Firefly Digital is redesigning www.cct.lsu.edu. If you have any suggestions for the Web site and how the content could be better displayed, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
• If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
NSF Community-based Data Interoperability Networks INTEROP
August 23 2007 5 p.m.
At Most $ 1,250,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112&org=NSF&from=
NSF Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce CI-TEAM
August 27 2007 5 p.m.
At Most $ 1,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12782&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
NSF Physics Frontiers Centers
PFC
August 29 2007 5 p.m.
At Most $ 10,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07567
Energy Biosciences (BES)
DOE BES
August 31 2007 10 a.m.
http://www.science.doe.gov/bes/eb/Grants/grants.html
NSF Biotechnology Program (BTEC)
September 15 2007 10:15 a.m.
At Least $ 100,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501024&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
CCT hosted a booth at the SIGGRAPH 2007 conference in San Diego Aug. 7-9 to display projects involving computerized graphics, visualization and animation. “SIGGRAPH is the premier conference to showcase new developments in digital media, and having a presence there is a good venue to tell people about the work going on at the University, particularly through the Red Stick International Animation Festival,†said CCT and School of Music Professor Stephen David Beck, who led the CCT group at SIGGRAPH. The CCT staff showed competition screenings from the 2007 Red Stick International Animation Festival, as well as a film on CCT's work to expand digital media in the Baton Rouge area, at the booth. CCT and Department of Computer Science Professor Brygg Ullmer attended and gave demonstrations of tangible and embedded interaction -- an emerging field of technology that manipulates physical objects (e.g., paper, blocks, furniture and clothing) to make them interfaces for digital information and scientific visualization. CCT also provided information about Chief Scientist Thomas Sterling's groundbreaking computer science course that is taught at LSU and broadcast using high-definition television and high-speed networks to locations around the world. The Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium, led by Red Stick International Animation Festival Director and CCT Assistant Director for Special Projects Stacey Simmons, joined CCT at SIGGRAPH to promote economic development opportunities for digital media businesses in the state and city. The consortium, which is led by CCT and comprised of LSU Office for Research & Economic Development, the Mayor-President's Office, Baton Rouge Area Foundation and Baton Rouge Area Chamber, is working to show the entertainment industry Baton Rouge is a lucrative area to locate video game design, animation, rendering and other digital media endeavors. The consortium is an outgrowth of CCT's Red Stick International Animation Festival. CCT in the News:
Researchers Join Forces at Conference
8-21-2007/WLOX
Improved technology has saved countless lives during hurricanes. And researchers are still trying to find ways to better pinpoint the tracks of hurricanes. This was one of the main topics at a meeting held by the Gulf States Alliance at the Beau Rivage Monday.
http://www.wlox.com/global/story.asp?s=6958824&ClientType=Printable
Upcoming Lectures:
• The all CCT scheduled for this Wednesday, Aug. 15, is canceled. The next all CCT meeting will be Sept. 19 at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338.
• Tinsley Oden, Associate Vice President for Research and Director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin, will give a lecture on “Adaptive Multiscale Modeling Of Large-Scale Molecular Systems†at CCT on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 4 p.m. in the Life Sciences Annex Building.
• The CCT Colloquium Series, held each Friday at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338, will return in the fall with Shantenu Jha in charge of the speaker line-up. If you have a speaker wish list, please send it to Shantenu at sjha@cct.lsu.edu.
Please Note:
• Classes for the fall semester begin this Monday, Aug. 27.
• Firefly Digital is redesigning www.cct.lsu.edu. If you have any suggestions for the Web site and how the content could be better displayed, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
• If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
NSF Community-based Data Interoperability Networks INTEROP
August 23 2007 5 p.m.
At Most $ 1,250,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112&org=NSF&from=
NSF Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce CI-TEAM
August 27 2007 5 p.m.
At Most $ 1,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12782&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
NSF Physics Frontiers Centers
PFC
August 29 2007 5 p.m.
At Most $ 10,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07567
Energy Biosciences (BES)
DOE BES
August 31 2007 10 a.m.
http://www.science.doe.gov/bes/eb/Grants/grants.html
NSF Biotechnology Program (BTEC)
September 15 2007 10:15 a.m.
At Least $ 100,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501024&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Publish Date:
08-21-2007
