RAP opportunity at National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST
NRC Postdoctoral Research Position in Immersive Scientific Visualization
Location
Information Technology Laboratory, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division
opportunity |
location |
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50.77.11.C0664 |
Gaithersburg, MD |
NIST only participates in the February and August reviews.
Advisers
Description
With the continuing increase in speed and capability of commodity graphics hardware, immersive visualization offers increasing opportunities to express scientifically meaningful results. Data at NIST spans a wide range from nano to cement to models that exhibit complex dynamics. This research will build on open source software that runs on a desktop environment as well as in an immersive environment. Opportunities exist for (1) investigating the use of immersive visualization as a scientific instrument for exploration and representation of data; (2) developing interactive measurement techniques on visualizations; (3) developing ways to merge analysis with visualization and provide quantitative feedback into the visualization; (4) exploring and expressing uncertainties due to the data as well as the visualization methods; (5) harnessing the growing capability of graphics processors to provide insight; (6) advancing the use of abstraction to express meaning in data; and (7) developing user interaction methods, including direct manipulation techniques.
key words
Scientific visualization; Immersive Visualization; In Situ visualization; Real-time multi-variate volume rendering; Mixed reality; 3D User Interfaces; Spatial Computing; Collaborative visualization
Eligibility
Citizenship:
Open to U.S. citizens
Level:
Open to Postdoctoral applicants
Stipend
Base Stipend |
Travel Allotment |
Supplementation |
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$82,764.00 |
$3,000.00 |
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