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Division of Adolescent and Young  Adult Medicine

University of Maryland, The Founding Campus

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The George Washington University’s LGBT Resource Center, in conjunction with our partners, is proud to announce an academic and research symposium: Intricate Identities: Exploring Intersections of Race, Culture and Ability in the LGBTQ Community. We are now accepting program submissions and would appreciate you helping spread the word to interested students, staff, and faculty.

• EBLO or Education Based Latino Outreach  - Saturdays, 9am-1pm; Transportation provided

• Choice Program's College Night - Mondays at UMBC, 5:45-8:15 pm; Held at UMBC

• Choice Program's Education Team  - Wednesdays at a local Baltimore High School, 2:30-5:30 pm; Transportation provided

• Cristo Rey Jesuit High School AT UMBC - Tutors needed Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, 2:30-4pm; Held AT The Shriver Center

• Walden Circle - Tuesdays or Thursdays, 3-6:45 pm; Transportation Provided

CSEE Colloquium

Geometric Modeling and Visualization for Science

Dr. Liz Marai
Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh

3:00pm Wednesday 3 October 2012, ITE325b

The incredible array of measurement technologies available to the scientific community is changing fundamentally our understanding of physical and biological processes. However, scientific data acquisition marks only the first step. To turn numbers into insight, computer graphics and visualization help us model complex systems, make predictions about their behavior, and finally harness the immense power of the human visual perception system to make insights into complex processes possible. In this talk I will present several novel geometric representations, computational modeling, and visual analysis tools to facilitate the simulation and analysis of such complex scientific phenomena. These representations and tools were developed at the Pitt Interdisciplinary Visualization Research lab I direct, and have applications in domains as diverse as neuroimaging, astronomy, biology, turbulent combustion, or machine translation.

Liz Marai is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh, with joint and adjunct appointments in the Pitt Department of Computational Biology and at the CMU Robotics Institute. She is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Visualization Research lab at Pitt, featuring interdisciplinary research in computational modeling, data visualization, and computer graphics. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, of a recent Best Paper Award at BioVis 2011, and of multiple teaching awards for courses that blend research and teaching.

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Tender Loving Calls is an innovative, interactive and easy to use subscription telephone messaging service, designed to improve the quality of life for aging seniors and help families take better care of their aging loved ones from a distance.
    
    The associated web site TLC-Connect is to be for the family caregivers and is to be a dual-purpose social learning networking and marketing site. Recent research has shown that family caregivers are very active users of the internet, particularly social networks, both on and offline. They are keen to connect with others to discuss and learn from each others experiences. There are many web sites devoted to providing information on all aspects of aging and caregiving, however very few (if any) encourage communication and collaboration between their visitors. My aim is not just to provide information but to encourage users to share their experiences, using the blogging, forum systems and specialist groups within the TLC site, with the notion that ‘a problem shared is a problem solved’. 
    
    We have an interim web site at http://www.tenderlovingcalls.com and are currently building a full scale social learning network to take its place. We are looking for Interns who are interested in working to help develop an active and engaged community of users. In the process they will explore a different application of social networking that goes way beyond the world of Facebook and Twitter. Running a large scale focused social network is very much like being the producer of a live daily TV program. They will work directly with me to learn and master techniques which encourage active and sustained engagement within this community. They will have the opportunity to develop and explore their own ideas pertinent to  creating an engaging online environment designed to serve people (especially family caregivers) who are deeply concerned about providing care for our aging community.
    
    If you have any interest you can see some of my past projects at http://www.digitalslate.com.

IF INTERESTED, apply via UMBCworks or send your resume to Christine Routzahn at the Shriver Center (routzahn@umbc.edu)