3DFM
Purpose: The 3D Force Microscope is an interdisciplinary project with core participation by Computer Science, Physics & Astronomy, and Materials Science; and significant collaboration with Biology, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, the Cystic Fibrosis Center, and others. This research addresses the integration of mechanical dynamics measurements with optical microscopy, and the application of the resulting instrument as a uniquely enabling technology to various Biological and Materials research areas.
Meets: 9 a.m., Tuesdays, 252 Sitterson
Contact: Leandra Vicci (vicci)

Angio Group Meeting
Purpose: Discussion of particular medical imaging research work
Meets: 3 - 4, Mondays, 284 Sitterson
Contact: Dr. Elizabeth Bullitt (bullitt at med.unc.edu) or Kim Jones (kkjones at cs.unc.edu)

ARGH!
Purpose: The ARGH! (Advanced Research in Graphics Hardware!) meets to discuss the status of current graphic architecture and hardware projects and relevant current issues.
Meets: 3:30-4:30 p.m., Tuesdays, 042 Sitterson
Contact: Dr. Anselmo Lastra (lastra at cs.unc.edu)

Biogeometry
Purpose: Study the application of geometric computing in structural molecular biology.
This semester our regular group meeting is replaced by COMP 290-079: Applied Optimization in Computational Biology. Everyone welcome. We look at a lot of issues of code tuning, algorithm development, and problem solving using case studies from computational biology applications. The attendees are a mix of CS, bioinformatics, and biochem students.
Meets: 4-5 p.m., Thursdays, 116 Beard
Contact: Jack Snoeyink (snoeyink at cs.unc.edu)

Cisco
Purpose:
Meets: 1-2 p.m., Tuesdays, 277 Sitterson
Contact: Greg Welch (welch at cs.unc.edu)

DiRT Group
Purpose: The DiRT (Distributed and Real-Time Systems) Group meets to discuss status and issues in current distributed systems, networking, and multimedia projects.
Meets: 10 a.m., Fridays, 155 Sitterson
Contact: Dr. Kevin Jeffay (jeffay at cs.unc.edu)

EVE Research Group
Purpose: The EVE (Effective Virtual Environments) group meets to discuss research in Virtual Reality, Graphics, and Human-Computer Interaction.
Meets: 4 - 5 p.m., Mondays, 284 Sitterson (open conference area)
Contacts: Dr. Fred Brooks (brooks at cs.unc.edu) or Mary Whitton (whitton at cs.unc.edu)

GAMMA Research Group
Purpose: Discussion of problems related to collision detection, physically-based modeling, and robot motion planning, and their applications to haptics, virtual environments and simulation.
Meets: 11 a.m., Wednesdays, 284 Sitterson (open conference area)
Contacts: Dr. Ming C. Lin (lin at cs.unc.edu), and Dr. Dinesh Manocha (dm at cs.unc.edu)

GPUCOMP
Purpose: The GPUCOMP Group discusses research issues related to General Purpose Computation using Graphics Processors. These include use of GPUs for visibility computations, shadows, database operations, navigation as well as processing complex datasets.
Meets: 2 p.m., Fridays, SN 284
Contacts: Faculty: Dr. Dinesh Manocha (dm at cs.unc.edu)

Graphics Lunch
Purpose: An informal meeting of faculty and students interested in graphics research. Meetings usually consist of a discussion, led by one or two people, about a recent conference or other event, or their research.
Meets: 12:30 p.m., Wednesdays, 284 Sitterson (open conference area)
Contact: Ilknur Kabul (ilknurk) or Rick Skarbez (skarbez)

Hipercoco
Purpose: An informal lunch-time meeting discussing issues relating to high-performance scientific computing. Current focus is on N-body algorithms.
Meets: 12:30 - 1:45 p.m., Mondays, 325 Sitterson
Contact: Dr. Jan Prins (prins at cs.unc.edu)

Image Analysis and Vision Research Group (Image Lunch)
Purpose: Students and faculty in image analysis meet to discuss their recent research progress.
Meets: 12 - 1:30 p.m., Mondays, 284 Sitterson (open conference area)
Contact: Casey Goodlett (gcasey at cs.unc.edu)

M-Reps Meeting
Purpose:
Meets: 10-11 p.m., Thursdays, 325 Sitterson
Contact: Dr. Stephen Pizer (pizer at cs.unc.edu)

MIDAG Project Leaders Meeting
Purpose: Discussion of MIDAG project research
Meets: 10 a.m., 1st Monday of each month, Radiation-Oncology Classroom
Contact: Dr. Stephen M. Pizer (pizer at cs.unc.edu) or Kim Jones (kkjones at cs.unc.edu)

Mobile Computing Group
Purpose: Discussion of mobile computing research with main focus on
different wireless technologies and mobile computing applications.
Meets: 10 - 11 a.m., Fridays, conference room, 357 Sitterson Hall.
Contact:

nanoManipulator Project Meetings
The nanoManipulator project has a number of different meetings. Please check the link above for meeting descriptions and schedules.
Contact: Maggie Hudson (maggie at cs.unc.edu)

Networking and Distributed Systems Reading Group (Netlunch)
Purpose: This is an informal reading group that focuses on networking and distributed systems research. We are interested in current papers as well as classic publications that helped shape these fields. Anyone interested in networking and distributed systems research is welcome to attend. The group meets once a week and discusses one or more papers. Each session has a leader that is responsible for an in-depth reading of the material and bringing up some ideas and directions for the discussion. Attendees are expected to read the papers in advance.
Meetings: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., Fridays, SN 155.
Contact: Félix Hernández-Campos (fhernand at cs.unc.edu)

Office of the Future Group
Purpose: Discussion of research aimed at developing a better everyday working environment through the use of computer vision and computer graphics systems in a unified fashion to achieve high-resolution imagery throughout the office and real-time 3D tele-presence with remote collaborators.
Meetings:
*Wide Area Visuals: Projective Virtual Environments
- 9:30-10:30am, Wednesdays, 277 Sitterson
* Telepresence
Contacts: Herman Towles (towles at cs.unc.edu) or Greg Welch (welch at cs.unc.edu)

Real-Time Systems Group
Purpose: Conducts research on systems with timing constraints. Relevant issues include resource allocation, scheduling, synchronization, operating systems, and time-oriented programming models. Multicore platforms are currently a particular research focus.
Meets: Real-Time Lunch, usually on Wednesdays, at lunch time or in the early afternoon.
Contact: Jim Anderson (anderson)

RMX
Purpose: The Rotational Mixing Experiment is an interdisciplinary project primarily involving Computer Science and Applied Mathematics; also participating are Physics & Astronomy, Materials Science and others involved in the Virtual Lung Project. It addresses the dynamics of strongly fluctuating low Reynolds number fluid systems such as those surrounding cilia and flagella of Biological cells. Analytical solutions are developed and experimentally verified at both nano (actual) scale, and in dynamically similar macro scale models.
Meets: 12 p.m., Wednesdays, 252 Sitterson
Contact: Leandra Vicci (vicci)

Statistics of Shape & Medial Geometry at Scale Meeting
Purpose: Developing methods for identifying and characterizing the significant and discriminating features of objects in medical images.
Meets: 2-3 p.m., Fridays, 325 Sitterson
Contact: Christine Xu (xushun at cs.unc.edu) or Kim Jones (kkjones at cs.unc.edu)

Systems Tea
Purpose: Members of the department's various "systems" groups meet for informal presentations and discussions on various systems-related topics. The constituent systems groups are: collaborative systems, real-time systems, concurrent systems, and parallel systems.
Meets: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m., Fridays, 115 Sitterson
Contact: Björn Brandenburg (bbb)

Ultrasound-Laparoscopy Project Meeting
Purpose: Discussion of current ultrasound and laparoscopy project research
Meets: 11 a.m., Tuesdays, 282 Sitterson (open conference area)
Contacts: Dr. Henry Fuchs (fuchs at cs.unc.edu) and Andrei State (andrei at cs.unc.edu)