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e-mail: r.s.laramee "at" swansea.ac.uk

NEW: information on PhD Studentships, MRes in Visual Computing Bursaries and MSc Bursaries for the 2011-2012 academic year has been announced. Come talk to me if you'd like write a thesis in data visualization or need help with your application. Also, Funding your Postgraduate Studies is a very helpful guide to funding opportunities.

Funding: Here's a link to various one time funding opportunities at Swansea University. Chinese students are encouraged to consider the Great Britain-China Trust awards

Collaboration with Industry: Are you a business interested in collaborating with researchers? If so, please let us know. Also, let us know if you are a student interested in applying for a KESS scholarship. These scholarships fund both Masters and PhD degrees. This program is running in conjunction with Swansea University. We are looking for a student(s) interested in undertaking leading research work in the field of data visualization. Data visualization, a vibrant, exciting and rapidly expanding sub-field of computer science, is concerned with the use of computers and their graphics capabilities in order to generate meaningful imagery that provides insight into data from various sources. Here is the page to apply. Please let me know if you have questions or would like to talk about applying.

Research: Bob's main research interests lie in data visualization. Other interests include software engineering and and human-computer interaction. The fastest, easiest, and most enjoyable way to get an idea of the research we have done is to simply watch our visualization research videos. These are the only research videos of their kind in the entire United Kingdom.

Wanted: Students interested in writing a PhD or an MRes in Visual Computing. Have you ever thought about writing a masters or PhD degree with a focus on data visualization? Well, if so, come talk to me. (link to the visual computing page). And yes, there are funding opportunities in the form of scholarships, bursaries, and other sources of financial aid for those wishing to take up postgraduate study at Swansea University. Click here for more information. See also: great reasons to write an MRes in visual computing degree.

PhD and MRes Candidates in Data Visualization

Short Bio: Robert S. Laramee received a bachelors degree in physics, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (ZooMass) in 1997. In 2000, he received a masters degree in computer science from the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He was awarded a PhD from the Vienna University of Technology (Gruess Gott TUWien), Austria at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms in 2005. His research interests are in the areas of data visualization, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction. He has contributed research papers to IEEE Visualization, the Joint EUROGRAPHICS-IEEE TVCG Symposium on Visualization, EUROGRAPHICS, and the CHI conference on Human-Computer Interaction as well as their respective journals. From 2001 to 2006 he was a researcher at the VRVis Research Center (www.vrvis.at) and a software engineer at AVL (www.avl.com) in the department of Advanced Simulation Technologies. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer at the Swansea University (Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe), Wales in the Department of Computer Science (Adran Gwyddor Cyfrifiadur).

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