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Physically-based simulation for computer graphics and computational cell biomechanics

Colloquium

Speaker(s)
Dr. Tamar Shinar
Date
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Time
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Location
Galileo Pryne

Physically-based simulation has become an important tool for a broad range of applications, including special effects for movies and games, virtual surgery, and computational biomechanics. In this talk, I will describe several simulation techniques for various solid and fluid phenomena, including rigid and soft bodies, multiphase incompressible flow, and their coupled interactions. I will then describe recent work in computational cell biology, where we use computational approaches to study cytoskeletal phenomena.

Biography

Tamar Shinar is the Amrik Singh Poonian Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Riverside Graphics Lab. Dr. Shinar’s research focuses on simulation and modeling for computer graphics and biology. She received her Ph.D. in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics from Stanford University in 2008, where she developed algorithms for physically-based simulation in computer graphics. Prior to joining the CS&E faculty, she was a postdoctoral scholar the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU.