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Early Science Projects for Aurora Supercomputer Announced

January 30, 2017

Congratulations to Martin Berzins and the Carbon-Capture Multidisciplinary Simulation Center on their selection as one of ten computational science and engineering research projects for its Aurora Early Science Program starting this month.…

SCI Alum Thiago Ize to Receive Technical Oscar

Jan 05, 2017
Rob MacLeod Elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

Jan 03, 2017
Laura Lediaev wins the Utah Rendering Competition for the 3rd straight year

Dec 19, 2016
Miriah Meyer Receives Distinguished Alumni Award

Nov 30, 2016
SCIx 2016: November 16th

Nov 09, 2016
Awards at MICCAI and IEEE VIS 2016

Oct 25, 2016
Fluorender 2.20 Released

Oct 18, 2016
Alex Lex, Bei Wang Phillips, and Chris Johnson present at the Future in Review Conference

Sep 29, 2016
Visualizing the Universe

Sep 07, 2016
Scientific visualizations: A bridge to knowledge

Aug 15, 2016
Fluorender 2.19.4 Available

Jul 29, 2016
Bei Wang Joins the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Jun 02, 2016
Making Sense of Data Now Available

May 31, 2016
NeuroImage Journal Cover Features SCIRun Renderings

May 12, 2016
Best Paper Award at PacificVis 2016

Apr 22, 2016
Science-ArtQuiz

Apr 21, 2016
Mike Kirby among coauthors of ISC 2016 award winning paper

Apr 06, 2016
NSF Graduate Fellowships Awarded to Two SCI Students

Mar 30, 2016
SCI Research Highlighted in Argonne's 10 Year Celebration

Mar 15, 2016
Chris Johnson Re-Elected to CRA Board of Directors

Mar 02, 2016

Video Spotlights


2016 Summer Course on Image-Based Biomedical Modeling

Tools for Understanding Connective Tissue Structure	Advancing Microscopy with FluoRender	Evolution of the Medical Classroom

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Research Highlights

Introduction to Image-Based Modeling

Sponsored by the R. Harold Burton Foundation Over the course of four weeks, students from West High School and Skyline High School and a homeschooled junior year student were given an introduction to image-based modeling (IBM) as part of the SCI Institute… Read more

Image Analysis Tools for Understanding Connective Tissue Structure

Sponsored by the Burton Foundation This summer, two Salt Lake area high school students from Copper Hills High School came to the University of Utah to participate in a hands-on research experience. The students learned how image analysis tools help… Read more

Visualizing Hurricanes

On September 27th, Hurricane Joaquin, a Category 4 storm developed over the Atlantic Ocean pounding the Bahamas. There were a number of predications as to which way the storm would travel, one of which was that the hurricane would head north along the east… Read more

2015 Image-Based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) summer course

The Image-Based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) summer course was held July 13- 23 in Newpark, Park City (Utah).The two-week course included the following activities: Didactic lecture sessions given by the three PIs as well as four invited instructors and experts… Read more

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SCI Events

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Upcoming SCI Events

Tomorrow, Feb 3

2:00pm: Distinguished Lecture: Leslie Greengard , Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Courant Institute, New York University presents Inverse problems in acoustic scattering and cryo-electron microscopy

Tuesday, Feb 7

12:25pm: NERG Seminar: Loren Rieth presents 101 Uses for a used USEA

Wednesday, Feb 8

12:00pm: Visualization Seminar: Aaron Knoll presents Production Vis at Scale: A Roundup of Supercomputing 2016 Vis Showcase Presentations

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SCI Institute Technical Exchange
November 16, 2016

Keynote Speaker: James H. Clark

Alumni Highlights

Leonid Zhukov

Leonid Zhukov Director of Data Science, Ancestry.comRead more

Aaron Lefohn

Aaron Lefohn
Director of Graphics Research, NVIDIA
PhD,… Read more

Han-Wei Shen

Han-Wei Shen
Professor, Computer Science, Ohio State… Read more

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Graduate Studies

The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute is an exciting place to do your graduate studies. We currently have over 80 graduate students from multiple departments working with SCI Institute faculty on their degrees. If you are a highly motivated student pursing a graduate degree (Ph.D. or M.S.), please apply to the Ph.D. program in:

Open Positions

Feb 01, 2017