Manil Suri, professor of mathematics, will serve on two panels at the Centre Pompidou library in Paris as part of an event with Indian authors. Suri’s most recent book is “The Age of Shiva.” Suri also teaches in the Asian studies program.

Manil Suri, professor of mathematics, reflects on returning to Mumbai, the Indian city of a million incarnations, in the July 17 issue of Newsweek magazine. Suri also teaches in the Asian studies program.

In his piece, he compared Mumbai to a Hindu goddess. “In some ways, Mumbai is called upon to be even more subsuming than other goddesses. Her population is enormously diverse and regularly at odds on the basis of religion, language, ethnicity, and a host of other schisms. Her visibility attracts benign and malignant elements from inside and outside the country. These factors can result in heinous acts of terror. Yet somehow, Mumbai always manages to recover, no matter how grievous her wounds,” he writes.

The full piece can be read here.

Government Market and Opportunity Research Internship

Suniva, a leading American solar cell and panel manufacturing company is seeking an intern to provide market research and opportunity monitoring. This 6 month duration, part time position requires 15 hours per week via telework. Bi-monthly, in-person review meetings will be held in proximity to the final candidate’s location.  Target start date:  9/12/2011

COMPENSATION:

Initially $8.00/hr

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Provides research on federal government solar energy procurements

* Conducts daily research on pertinent solicitation announcement websites for new procurement     opportunities as well as monitoring existing solicitation progress

* Develops reports on individual opportunity research that ties together stakeholders information including company/agency level info and individual level

 * Provides tracking and updates of competitor announcements, marketing and strategy

QUALIFICATIONS:

Mature undergraduate or graduate with a demonstrated history of market and data research capabilities; Strong search engine knowledge and manipulation;  Highly organized with ability to aggregate and present disparate information in easy to comprehend structure; Ability to work independently and remotely;  Ability to perform diverse and complex tasks with accuracy and attention to detail; Ability to identify relationships between disparate data sources; Strong  written and oral communication skills;  Experience with Microsoft office or similar tools required; Strong preference for course work or experience in sustainability related markets; Background and demonstrated passion for clean energy a major plus.

APPLICATION:

Please send cover letter and resume to:solar.intern@verizon.net

MS Thesis Defense

Numerical Integration Techniques for Volume Rendering

Preeti Bindu

10:00am Wednesday, 7 September 2011, ITE 234

During the quick advancements of medical image visualization and augmented virtual reality applications improvements in the performances of Volume Rendering Algorithms need significant attention. Real-time visualization of 3D image data set is one of the key tasks of Augmented Reality Systems required by many medical imaging applications. Over past five years the development of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has proved beneficial when it comes to Real Time Volume Rendering. We propose a GPU based volume rendering system for medical images. Our toolkit independent system is able to read DICOM images, implementing better integration technics that increase frame rate for volume rendering with the same quality of output images.

Committee

• Dr. Marc Olano (advisor)
• Dr. Penny Rheingans
• Dr. Samir Chettri