Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

Professor Charles Hansen has started in November 2011 a visit of six month in the Maverick team. His six-months visit is funded by the University of Grenoble. Charles D. Hansen received a BS in computer science from Memphis State University in 1981 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah in 1987. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Utah an associate director of the SCI Institute. From 1989 to 1997, he was a Technical Staff Member in the Advanced Computing Laboratory (ACL) located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he formed and directed the visualization efforts in the ACL. He was a Bourse de Chateaubriand PostDoc Fellow at Inria, Rocquencourt France, in 1987 and 1988. His research interests include large-scale scientific visualization and computer graphics.

Internships

Pascal Grosset visited from May to July 2012, funded by Inria internship (REUSSI). He worked on a psychometric experiment in order to evaluate the benefit of depth of field to improve depth perception in direct volumetric rendering. His work has been accepted for publication at IEEE Pacific Visualization [15] .

Visits to International Teams

Eric Heitz is currently visiting the computer graphics group at the university of Montreal, funded by the explora'doc program from region Rhône-Alpes, from August 2012 to February 2013.