Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1131: Visualisation of Large and Unstructured Data Sets. Applications in Geospatial Planning, Modelling, and Engineering
Subject Area
Computer Science
Term
from 2005 to 2013
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 771881
Today's worldwide operating companies and research institutes face an enormous need for internationally educated students to become their future team leaders. For them social and especially intercultural skills are essential to overcome the barriers stemming from the cultural diversity in a worldwide operating organisation. Since product development in these companies is a very complex process, covering many different research and application domains, the capability to understand and combine knowledge from different disciplines is indispensable for success.
With the international, interdisciplinary education offered within the study programme of this International Research Training Group (IRTG), the students will be provided with all these important capabilities. This will give motivated and talented students the possibility to become excellent scientists. Additionally, in the context of the proposed IRTG, they can focus on their research projects and thus will have the opportunity to obtain their PhD degree within a quite short period of three years.
In the scientific programme of the IRTG we are tackling the problem of visualising large and unstructured data sets emerging from the exploration and simulation of geospatial planning, modelling, and engineering tasks. On the one hand, visualisation can be used as a tool for online analysis of these data sets, e.g., during experiments. On the other hand, the data can be visualised offline, using geometric or volume modelling, comparison, or feature detection techniques.
The application domain chosen is an ideal testbed for the development of new visualisation techniques and the adaptation of existing ones, since the multidimensional data produced cannot be handled satisfactorily by existing methods. Moreover, it covers specific tasks that stimulate the development of visualisation techniques, which in turn can be applied in a more general way.
In providing this international exchange programme, the scientific community in Germany will benefit from an extensive exchange of knowledge with our American partners. In turn, the American students get a profound insight into the German scientific, educational, professional and cultural environment.
With the international, interdisciplinary education offered within the study programme of this International Research Training Group (IRTG), the students will be provided with all these important capabilities. This will give motivated and talented students the possibility to become excellent scientists. Additionally, in the context of the proposed IRTG, they can focus on their research projects and thus will have the opportunity to obtain their PhD degree within a quite short period of three years.
In the scientific programme of the IRTG we are tackling the problem of visualising large and unstructured data sets emerging from the exploration and simulation of geospatial planning, modelling, and engineering tasks. On the one hand, visualisation can be used as a tool for online analysis of these data sets, e.g., during experiments. On the other hand, the data can be visualised offline, using geometric or volume modelling, comparison, or feature detection techniques.
The application domain chosen is an ideal testbed for the development of new visualisation techniques and the adaptation of existing ones, since the multidimensional data produced cannot be handled satisfactorily by existing methods. Moreover, it covers specific tasks that stimulate the development of visualisation techniques, which in turn can be applied in a more general way.
In providing this international exchange programme, the scientific community in Germany will benefit from an extensive exchange of knowledge with our American partners. In turn, the American students get a profound insight into the German scientific, educational, professional and cultural environment.
DFG Programme
International Research Training Groups
International Connection
USA
Applicant Institution
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
IRTG-Partner Institution
Arizona State University; University of California, Davis; University of Utah
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Hans Hagen
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr.-Ing. Jan C. Aurich; Professor Dr. Karsten Berns; Professor Dr. Achim Ebert; Privatdozent Dr. Martin Hering-Bertram; Professor Dr.-Ing. Peter Liggesmeyer; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Julia Mergheim; Professor Dr. Theo G. Schmitt; Professor Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Steinebach
Cooperation Partners
Professor Ramon Arrowsmith, Ph.D.; Professorin Dr. Magali Billen; Professor Dr. Gerald Farin; Professor Dr. Christoph Garth; Professor Dr. Subhrajit Guhathakurta; Professor Dr. Charles D. Hansen; Professorin Dr. Dianne Hansford; Professor Dr. Christopher R. Johnson; Professor Kenneth I. Joy, Ph.D.; Professorin Dr. Louise H. Kellogg; Professor Dr. Mike Kirby; Dr. Oliver Kreylos; Professor Dr. Robert Pahle; Professor Dr. K. David Pijawka; Professor Dr. Claudio T. Silva; Professor Dr. Arleyn W. Simon; Professor Dr. N. Sukumar; Professor Dr. Anthony S. Wexler; Professorin Dr. Ruth Yabes
IRTG-Partner: Spokesperson
Professor Bernd Hamann, Ph.D.
