Daniel Patel has finished his PhD project here at UiB with a successful PhD thesis defense.  We congratulate the first visualization PhD from the University of Bergen! 

Still available here for your reference:
 the abstract from the trial lecture
 the abstract from the thesis defense

Questions to Helwig Hauser or Ivan Viola.

We thank our guest Dieter Hönigmann for his nice invited talk ''Cute Images of Nasty Data -  The Art of Ultrasound Data Visualization'' (Oct. 1st, 2009). An abstract is available here.
Questions to Helwig Hauser or Ivan Viola.

The gathering on illustrative visualization has been captured for those who have missed the opportunity to participate.  To find the videos from talks, please visit speakers' pages accessible from the IllustraVis09 webpage. 
Questions to Ivan Viola (or Helwig Hauser).

During this event, research and learning institutions of Bergen presented their activities to a broad audience including children and adults, laymen and experts. 

This year, the VisGroup together with their partners from HUS and CMR presented the newly started Illustrated Ultrasound (IllustraSound) project.   Read more! 
Questions to Ivan Viola (or Helwig Hauser).

We are excited that our new cooperative IllustraSound project had a great start and we thank the Norwegian Research Council and the VERDIKT programme for supporting this line of research!

In that respect, we are especially happy to welcome three new research colleagues to our group: Veronika Šoltészová (new PhD stip.), Åsmund Birkeland (new PhD stip.), and Svein Brekke (new senior researcher). 
Welcome to the team!

Questions to Ivan Viola (or Helwig Hauser).

We thank Timo Ropinski (from the the VisCG group at the Univ. of Münster, Germany) for a wonderful invited talk about Multimodal Vessel Visualization of Mouse Aorta PET/CT Scans on Sept. 4th, 2009. An abstract is available.
Questions to Ivan Viola (or Helwig Hauser).

We are glad to report that the new SemSeg project was successfully started.  A first draft of a project home page has been set up.  We acknowledge the support from the European Commission in the context of the 7th Framework Programme. 
Questions to Ivan Viola (or Helwig Hauser).

Jean-Paul Balabanian has published an online volume raycaster on our web page -- have a look and enjoy!
For more information contact Jean-Paul Balabanian (contact information on our team page).

On June 3 & 4, 2009, about 60 participants from Norway and abroad met at the IllustraVis09 conference in Bergen, Norway, to discuss illustrative visualization and its applications.  The program contained contributions from twelve invited speakers from the international visualization research community, professional medical and geological illustrators, and experts from medical, oil&gas, and earth science field from the Bergen area. 
[read more]
 

The Visualization Group at the Department of Informatics has received almost 20 million NOK from the European Union and the Research Council of Norway.  "Something like this happens only once in life", says Helwig Hauser.
Read more in På Høyden (in Norwegian).
[English translation by google].

We are glad to report that the Bergen VisGroup is participating in a new EU-project (coordination action VisMaster) to establish visual analytics research in Europe.  Questions should be directed to Helwig.HauserUiB.no.

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