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February 24, 2006
Cross-Pollinating Computational Science Ideas
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More than 100 scientists, engineers and mathematicians turned out Tuesday, Feb. 14, for the University of Delaware's first comprehensive conference to unite those who use computing power in their campus research.
Provost Dan Rich told the faculty, staff and graduate students who attended the University of Delaware (UD) Computational Science Day 2006 in the Trabant University Center that he hoped the conference would increase cross-pollination of ideas on campus.
Researchers from 15 departments were sharing ideas by lunchtime -- mathematicians, engineers, geologists, physicists, computer scientists, plant scientists, animal scientists, biologists and geographers.
Impetus for the conference came from a conversation between UD President David P. Roselle and Susan Foster, vice president for information technologies, and the project was turned over to Dick Sacher, manager, IT-User Services.
"The University is blessed with exceptional researchers in all disciplines. Today we are learning about the important work of our computational scientists," Foster told those gathered for the conference.
With a "picture is worth a thousand words" approach to science, several speakers discussed visualization research that aims to present scientific data as 3D images or animations on a computer monitor.
Karl V. Steiner, associate director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, showed how computer modeling could result in an immersive, interactive 3-D environment for visualizing molecular models or life sciences data. He illustrated a virtual surgery environment in which a physician could "touch, feel and interact" with the virtual representation of an organ.
"What we're trying to do is stretch the imagination on how to look at these data in a new, innovative way that might lead to some discoveries we might not otherwise have made," Steiner said.
Researchers shared their knowledge and their needs with each other in presentations and poster sessions -- from virtual surgery prototypes to atomic physics calculations to web tools for biologists who use computers but don't program them.
Richard S. Sacher, the manager of IT-User Services who chaired the conference, said he was delighted by the breadth of the research presented and the number and enthusiasm of people who attended.
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