Hall of Visitors : 2006

Siome Klein Goldenstein Afiliation : Instituto de Computação Universidade Estadual de Campinas Address: Caixa Postal 6176 - Campinas, SP 13084-971 - Brazil Phone: (55)(19)3788-5888 Fax: (55)(19)3788-5847 E-mail: siome @ ic . unicamp . br Research area : Motion in Computer Vision And Computer Graphics, Tracking of 3D Deformable Models, Non Linear Dynamical Systems for Autonomous Agents and Crowd Simulation, Wavelets, Audio and Speech Signal Processing and Analysis. Period of visit: 15 - 25 January 2006

Assistant Professor at the Instituto de Computação, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). In December 2002, he received his PhD degree from the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, under the supervision of Professor Dimitris Metaxas. Later, he has held a postdoctoral position at the Center for Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling at Rutgers University. Formerly, he has an Electronic Engineering degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and a MSc in Computer Science from the PUC-Rio.

João Luiz Dihl Comba Afiliation : Instituto de Informática Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Address: Av. Bento Goncalves, 9500 Campus do Vale - Bloco IV - Prédio 43425 Porto Alegre RS 91501-970 Phone: (55)(51)3316-6930 Fax: (55)(51)3316-7308 E-mail: comba @ inf . ufrgs . br Research area : Volume Rendering, Graphics Hardware, Hierarchical Data Structures and Applications. Period of visit : 30 January - 03 February 2006

Assistant professor in the Graphics Group at the Informatics deparment of the Federal University at Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He received a Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University under the supervision of Leonidas J. Guibas. Before that, he received a masters degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, working with Ronaldo Marinho Persiano. His bachelor's degree in Computer Science was given by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

João Batista S. de Oliveira Afiliation : Faculdade de Informática Pontifícia Univ. Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Address: Av. Ipiranga, 6681 Prédio 30, bloco C Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil 90619-900 Phone: (55)(51)3320-3558 Fax: (55)(51)3320-3758 E-mail: oliveira @ inf . pucrs . br Research area : Algorithms for Scientific Computing Period of visit : January/February 2006

Professor at the Informatics deparment of the PUCRS. Doctor in Informatics at the Technische Universität Hamburg Harburg since 1996. MSc. (1992) in Computer Science at the Federal University at Rio Grande do Sul.

Uri M. Ascher Afiliation : Computer Science Department University of British Columbia Address: 2366 Main Mall Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 Phone: 604-822-4907 Fax: 604-822-5485 E-mail: ascher @ cs . ubc . ca Research area : Multibody systems simulation, robotics, data inversion in geophysics, 3D electromagnetic modelling, image reconstruction, semiconductor device simulation, computational fluid dynamics and physics based modeling in graphics and virtual reality. Period of visit : January - May 2006

Uri M. Ascher is professor of the Department of Computer Science of the University of British Columbia.

Diego Nehab Afiliation : Princeton University Address: Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA Phone: Fax: E-mail: Research area : Period of visit : 10-20 February 2006

Diego Nehab is originally from Brazil, but currently studying at Princeton University, for a PhD degree in Computer Science (more specifically, in Computer Graphics). He is now in the fourth year of the program and his research advisor is professor Szymon Rusinkiewicz

Michael Goesele Afiliation : Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Address: Seattle, Washington 98195-2350 USA Phone: (1)(206)543-6876 Fax: E-mail: Research area : Period of visit : 5-15 March 2006

Research Associate at the University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, supported by a Foedor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. PostDoc (2005) at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (MPII), Saarbrücken, Germany.

Claudio T. Silva Afiliation : School of Computing University of Utah Address: 50 S. Central Campus Drive, RM 3190 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Phone: Fax: E-mail: csilva "at" cs.utah.edu Research area : Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Applied Computational Geometry, and High-Performance Computing. Period of visit : 12-16 June 2006

Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah and member of the SCI Institute, working with the Visualization and Geometric Computing (VGC) group. Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1996). Before going to Utah he had the opportunity to work in industry (IBM and AT&T), government (Sandia and LLNL), and academia (Stony Brook and OGI).

Mario Costa Sousa Afiliation : Department of Computer Science University of Calgary Address: 628 Mathematical Sciences Building 2500 University Drive N.W, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 Phone: (403)220-6783 Fax: (403)284-4707 E-mail: mario@cpsc.ucalgary.ca Research area : Interactive modeling, shape analysis, expressive rendering. Period of visit : 1-25 July 2006

Assistant Professor working at the Computer Graphics and Visualization Research Lab, Visual and Interactive Computing (VIC) group. His goal is to develop techniques to capture the enhancement and expressive capability of traditional illustrations, leading to a comprehensive formal illustrative visualization framework, methodology and software environment for computer-generated technical, medical and scientific illustrations.