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Subject: [Students] Dissertation Defense Announcement<br>To: <a href="mailto:students@mat.ucsb.edu">students@mat.ucsb.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:staff@mat.ucsb.edu">staff@mat.ucsb.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:faculty@mat.ucsb.edu">faculty@mat.ucsb.edu</a><br>
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</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please reserve this date and time for Basak Alper's dissertation defense:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Time: 4PM - 6PM<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Location: 1605 Elings Hall (CNSI), UCSB<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Title: Bridging Dimensions in Visualization <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Committee:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">JoAnn Kuchera-Morin (MAT, MUSIC), Co-Chair<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tobias Hollerer (MAT, CS), Co-Chair<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Matthew Turk (MAT, CS)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">George Legrady (MAT, ART)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nathalie Henry-Riche (MICROSOFT RESEARCH)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Abstract: <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scientific and Information Visualization have evolved into two sub disciplines of visualization that are quite distinct from each other. A separation between these fields was justified because of significant differences in the types of data sets </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d;background:white">–</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> spatial versus and non-spatial </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d;background:white">–</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> and corresponding problems tackled by each. This separation led to a gap between the software tools, hardware technologies and visual languages adopted. However, available graphics and visualization techniques, regardless of their intended purpose, can be applied advantageously to both types of data sets. In this context, 3D graphics rendering methods, which are readily adopted for Scientific Visualizations, can be used to enhance 2D Information Visualization techniques. Similarly, certain spatial data sets can be better visualized with 2D Information Visualization approaches to support a range of tasks such as comparison and detection of patterns. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The goal of this thesis is to develop Scientific and Information Visualizations with the following motivations: 1) dimensionality should be defined and addressed not as a binary distinction between 2D and 3D, but rather as a continuum such that visualizations can have intermediary dimensionality, 2) dimensionality of a visualization should be determined by the task at hand rather than the spatial properties of the data or the conventions of the respective visualization fields. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This thesis will present evidence from case studies that support the aforementioned propositions. It will discuss two case studies </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d;background:white">–</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <i>Stereoscopic Highlighting</i> and <i>Contour Maps</i> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d;background:white">–</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> that illustrate how 3D elements can be used to enhance 2D visualizations of non-spatial data. The benefits of reducing dimensions will be explored via <i>LineSets</i> and <i>Weighted Graph Comparisons for Brain Connectivity Analysis</i> case studies. Our results show that more compact representations can be realized and key tasks such as visual comparisons can be carried out more effectively with reduced dimensional representations of spatial data. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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