Virtual Undergraduate Town Hall: Accelerated Cloth Simulation for Virtual Try-On

July 14, 2016

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Overview

During the Virtual Undergraduate Town Hall Event, you will join students from around the world in a virtual mentoring event where you will learn about cutting edge research in the field of computing. You will have the opportunity to ask distinguished computer scientists any questions you might have.

Research Presentation: Accelerated Cloth Simulation for Virtual Try-On
The state of the art in cloth simulation can produce highly realistic cloth, but requires extremely high computation time, on the order of hours or even days. Applications such as animation previewing or virtual prototyping call for more interactive simulations and might be able to sacrifice a small amount of accuracy to achieve these speeds. In this talk, I will give an overview of common techniques used in cloth simulation, and discuss some of the research challenges we face in accelerating the overall runtime.

Mentoring Session: Grad School Applications 101
Applying to graduate schools can be a daunting activity. Which schools should you consider applying to? What do you write in a statement of interest? When do you need to start? The mentoring session that is part of this webinar will provide answers to all of these questions and more.

Register today, for the webinar!

Speakers

Speaker: Tanya Amert, Ph.D. Student at UNC, Chapel Hill, Computer Science

Bio: Tanya is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the department of Computer Science. She received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees from MIT, and then spent three years at Microsoft, working as a Software Engineer in Office 365. Her research focuses on physically-based simulations for VR applications such as virtual try-on.

Host: Lori Pollock, Professor at University of Delaware, Computer and Information Sciences

Bio: Lori Pollock is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her research currently focuses on program analysis for building better software maintenance tools, optimizing compilers for modern computer architectures, and software testing.

Participants

All are welcome to participate, register here.

Logistics

Please join us 15 minutes before the presentation begins, in order to not miss any valuable information. The entire webinar event will last 1 hour. The event is broken into 3 sections:

Tanya Amert presents presentation on “Accelerated Cloth Simulation for Virtual Try-On”
Open Q&A
Mentoring Session “Grad School Applications 101” and a second Open Q&A

Resources

Are you part of an ACM-W chapter or Women in CS/CSE group? Check out our flyer on how to participate in this webinar event as a group!

Flyer for ACM-W Chapter or Women in CS/CSE Group