[BIC-announce] James O'Brien - Berkeley -SOCS Seminar- Friday Oct. 1/10 in MC103

[Kaleem Siddiqi]

FYI.

> Time: 15:30 to 16:30
> Place: MC103
> Date: October 1, 2010
> 
> Speaker: James O'Brien
> 
> Title: Mesh Modification and Real-Time FEM Simulation
> 
> Abstract:
> This talk will discuss a pair of simulation systems that been developed
> to model complex deformable behaviors in real-time, interactive
> contexts. Based around fast finite element methods, the systems are
> designed to address two specific applications: destructible environments
> in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and interactive modeling of prostate
> brachytherapy. Although dynamic remeshing is often dismissed as
> impractically slow, in both cases it was key part to making the
> algorithms work effectively in a real-time setting. The results
> presented will include captured footage from the live game and
> comparisons of simulated needle insertion to footage with gel tissue
> phantoms.
> 
> Biography of Speaker:
> James F. O'Brien is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the
> University of California, Berkeley. His primary area of interest is
> Computer Animation, with an emphasis on generating realistic motion
> using physically based simulation and motion capture techniques. He has
> authored numerous papers on these topics. In addition to his research
> pursuits, Prof. O'Brien has worked with several game companies on
> integrating advanced simulation physics into game engines, and his
> methods for destruction modeling were recently used in the film Avatar.
> He received his doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in
> 2000, the same year he joined the Faculty at U.C. Berkeley. Professor
> O'Brien is a Sloan Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist, Technology
> Review selected him as one of their TR-100 for 2004, and he was recently
> awarded research grants from the Okawa and Hellman Foundations. He is
> currently serving as ACM SIGGRAPH Director at Large.
> 
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