“Coffee & Viz” returns with four talks this fall

The NCSU Libraries presents four free talks this fall in its popular Coffee & Viz series. Held in our state-of-the-art high-tech spaces at the Hunt Library, the series provides a showcase for the unique ways that researchers at NC State and elsewhere are using visualization to enhance their work. The full fall schedule is listed below.

Fall 2017 kicks off with a presentation on Aug. 25 by Dr. Igor Bolotnov on how nuclear engineers use computer simulations to optimize flow and solve reactor problems before they actually occur. On Sept. 15, design professor Emil Polyak shows how many different fields use 3D modeling and offers tips and tricks of the trade. Materials Science and Engineering professor James LeBeau visits on Oct. 27 with an aesthetic consideration of atomic structure. TO round out the semester, Dr. Paul Byrne leads a journey through the solar system on Nov. 17, stopping off at each planet for a visit along the way.

All Coffee & Viz events are free and open to the public. Light refreshments are served in an adjacent space beginning at 9:15 a.m. To receive series announcements, join the NC State Visualization Interest Group.

Coffee & Viz is brought to you by NCSU Libraries Presents.
 

Fall 2017 Coffee & Viz series at a glance

High Fidelity Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Flows
Friday, Aug. 25, 9:30 a.m., Hunt Library, Teaching & Visualization Lab
Dr. Igor Bolotnov, associate professor of nuclear engineering, will explain how high performance computing can enable researchers to run high fidelity “virtual experiments” of fully resolved turbulent flows.

3D Modeling Strategies
Friday, Sept. 15, 9:30 a.m., Hunt Library, Teaching & Visualization Lab
Professor Emil Polyak of the NC State College of Design will discuss modeling techniques, tools, and tips for those who are interested in development for visualization, animation, simulation, and rapid prototyping.

Art at the Atomic Scale
Friday, Oct. 27, 9:30 a.m., Hunt Library, Teaching & Visualization Lab
Dr. James LeBeau, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, will discuss how “atom art” shows people that we can directly see atoms and the orderly, often beautiful, way that atoms are arranged in materials.

A Tour of the Solar System
Friday, Nov. 17, 9:30 a.m., Hunt Library, Teaching & Visualization Lab
Using datasets from NASA spacecraft, Dr. Paul Byrne will take you on a planetary journey from Mercury to Pluto, stopping at the sweltering lava plains of Venus, the barren surface of the Moon, the rings of Saturn, and the methane lakes of Titan.