Nelson L. Max
About Nelson L. Max
- Affiliations
- University of California, Davis, Computer Science, _Professor
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Location
- Davis, California, United States of America
- Bio
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Nelson Max received a PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University in1967, and started working on computer animation for mathematics visualization in 1969. He has worked for most of his career at the University of California (Berkeley and Davis campuses, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). His research interests are in the areas of scientific visualization, computer animation, realistic computer graphics rendering, multi-view stereo reconstruction, and augmented reality. In visualization he worked on molecular graphics, and on volume and flow visualization, particularly on irregular finite element meshes. He has rendered realistic lighting effects in clouds, trees, and water waves, and has produced numerous computer animations, shown at the annual ACM SIGGRAPH conferences, and in OMNIMAX stereo at the Fujitsu Pavilions at Expo ’85 in Tsukuba Japan, and Expo ’90 in Osaka Japan. He is a Fellow of the ACM, and the winner of its 2007 Steven A. Coons award.
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Nelson Max received a PhD in mathematics from Harvard University in 1967 and has taught mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, Carnegie Mellon University, and Case Western University. For 30 years, he worked in the Computer Graphics group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and at the same time taught in the Applied Science and Computer Science departments at the University of California, Davis, where he is now an emeritus Distinguished Professor. His research is in scientific visualization, computer animation, realistic computer graphics rendering, multi-view stereo reconstruction, and augmented reality. In visualization, he works on mathematics visualization, molecular graphics, and volume and flow visualization, particularly on irregular finite element meshes. He has rendered realistic lighting effects in clouds, trees, and water waves, and has produced numerous computer animations, shown at the annual ACM SIGGRAPH conferences, and in OMNIMAX Stereo at the Fujitsu Pavilions at Expo ’85 in Tsukuba, Japan, and Expo ’90 in Osaka, Japan.
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- Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 2007 Steven Anson Coons Award: Max
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2018
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 1984: Electronic Theater
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- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member
- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Organizing Committee Member
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- Computer Animation Director
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Computer Animation Organizing Committee Member
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- Technical Papers Jury Member
- Technical Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
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