[gov3009-l] Applied Statistics Workshop: Hanspeter Pfister on Wed., February 29

Many areas in science are experiencing a flood of data arising in part from the development of instruments that acquire information on an unprecedented scale. This is particularly true in biology, where huge amounts of heterogeneous data are acquired from microarrays, scanners, microscopes, and various other instruments. Visual computing tools are essential to gain insights into this data by combining computational analysis with the power of the human perceptual and cognitive system and enabling data exploration through interactive visualizations. In this talk I will present some of my group's work in visual computing and give an overview of several successful visualization projects in the areas of genomics and systems biology. I then will focus on our work on visual computing in Connectomics, a new field in neuroscience that aims to apply biology and computer science to the grand challenge of determining the detailed neural circuitry of the brain.