The Department of Mathematical Sciences invites you to the eleventh annual

Marden Lecture on Mathematics

PAINT: From modeling and simulation to computer graphics

presented by

Dr. Fern Hunt

National Institute
of
Standards and Technology

`The speaker will describe an interdisciplinary project to investigate the relationship between the surface appearance of materials and material microstructure. The scientific basis of surface appearance is particularly important for the paint and coatings industry where product appearance is linked to product marketability. We will describe how the project is integrating traditional NIST measurements of optical and surface topographical properties of surfaces with new developments in computer graphic rendering to present images of virtual surfaces. We speculate that this is a first step towards design and evaluation of color and appearance based on material properties and the beginning of an image based method for presenting appearance measurements.'

Dr. Hunt is a research mathematician in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division of the Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory at NIST. Dr. Hunt has a Ph.D. and an M.S. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and an A.B. degree from Bryn Mawr College. Before joining NIST she taught in the Mathematics Department at Howard University and had earlier positions at the University of Utah and City College of New York. Please see: http://gams.nist.gov/mcsd/Staff/FHunt/

Tuesday, May 9, 2000
3:30 - 4:30 pm
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
EMS E180
3200 North Cramer Street

This program is free and open to the public. Reception to follow in E495A.
The lecture is sponsored by Miriam and Morris Marden Fund and
is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

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