Presenters/Thomas Ertl
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Thomas Ertl (ertl) | |
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| Affiliation | Visualization and Interactive Systems Institute, Universitaet Stuttgart |
| Personal site | http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/ |
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| Thomas Ertl received a masters degree in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a PhD in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Tuebingen. Currently, Dr. Ertl is a full professor of computer science at the University of Stuttgart, Germany and the head of the Visualization and Interactive Systems Institute (VIS). Prior to that he was a professor of computer graphics and visualization at the University of Erlangen where he lead the scientific visualization group. Besides that, he is a cofounder and a member of the managing board of science+computing ag, a Tuebingen based IT company. His research interests include visualization, computer graphics and human computer interaction in general with a focus on volume rendering, flow visualization, multiresolution analysis, parallel and hardware accelerated graphics, large datasets and interactive steering. Dr. Ertl is coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications and he served on several program and paper committees as well as a reviewer for numerous conferences and journals in the field. | |
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