1. Computer Graphics & Visualization Roger Crawfis Tamal Dey Raghu Machiraju Rick Parent Han-Wei Shen Yusu Wang Rafe Wenger

2. Core Areas Visualization Geometric Algorithms & Modeling Animation Rendering User Interaction

3. Areas of Leadership Visualization Geometric Algorithms & Modeling Animation

4. Strengths Visibility (Strong publications, Editorial boards, PCs, Keynotes) Ranking (top 5 in Viz., top 10 in Geometry, top 15 in Animation) Strong funding (several NSF, 6 Career, DoE, ARO, NIH) ~$1 M/Yr. in the last three years, $154K/faculty. Student placements (many in good universities, industry, Natl Labs, Newsletter lists many of them) ~30 current Phd students. Graduating rate ~0.8/faculty/Yr. Collaborations (Bio, Medical, Stanford, Harvard, HKUST, INRIA, ACCAD, OSC, LLNL, Wright state, NASA) Well recognized software distribution (Cocone, Mesh generation) Visualization 2008 Conference in Columbus

5. Leadership in: Visualization Edited Books: Microscopic Image Analysis for Life Science Applications Awards: 7 NSF, 4 Career awards, 1 NIH, 1 DOE Program committees : Visualization, Volume Graphics, Graphics Interface, EuroVis, Pacific Graphics, Pacific Vis, Eurographics Parallel Graphics Editorial Boards: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Conference/Paper Chair: VisWeek08, Visualization 2008, Volume Graphics Impact: 2008 DoD SBIR/STTR topic based on work by Machiraju and collaborators. DOE Ultrascale Visualization Institute (one of 4 schools in the country) Students: IBM Research Labs, Samsung, LLNL, Harvard Medical School, Oak Ridge, Nvidia, Siemens Medical, Vital Images, Faculty at Univ. of Tennessee, SUNY Stony Brook, Simon Frasier, Keynote: AFI/TFI (100 year celebration of Tokohu University Japan)

6. Leadership in: Geometry Publications : SoCG, SODA, DCG, SIAM, JACM Book (Cambridge U. Press) 6 NSF, 1 ARO, 2 Career, 1 NIH Well known software (Cocone, Mesh generation) Executive Board of SMA PC membership: SoCG, SODA, ACM-SPM, SMI, IMR, 3DPVT, Pacific graphics, ISAAC, FST&TCS Editorial board membership: DCG, Trans. Comput. Sci. Keynote, Colloquia : ALGO02, ISAAC06,UFL, UND, WUSTL,Penn-State Success of students: Faculty, Post-docs at Stanford, UT-Austin.

7. Leadership in: Animation Founder (1 of 7) of Symposium on CA Published Successful Book on CA Several publications in SIGGRAPH Program committee membership: CASA, SCA, SIBGRAPI, PG, Technical Sketch chair Editorial board membership: TVCG, VC Success of students: academy awards, faculty at Purdue, Toronto, George Washington, professionals at Pixar, PDI, D2, etc. Keynotes: CASA, SIBGRAPI

8. Transformations of areas Geometric Algorithms & Modeling ‣ Application focus Visualization ‣ collaborations Animation ‣ Closer ties with ACCAD

9. Objectives Be more attractive to top-notch students, Attract more resources Got a plan => Hire a new faculty in graphics, In the last nine years, area had only 1 hire How? Increase national visibility in Graphics Publish more, obtain more grants Increase service