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The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, will host Professor Jason Leigh for a Distinguished Lecture Series on “Emerging From The CAVE: Advanced Visualization And Collaboration Research At The Electronic Visualization Laboratory” on Thursday, May 24, at 2 p.m. in the Life Sciences Annex Room A101. Leigh is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also serves as director of the university’s renowned Electronic Visualization Laboratory. In his lecture, Leigh will discuss the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment, called CAVE, a room-sized, immersive, virtual reality environment. The first CAVE was created at the University of Illinois in 1992, and a second CAVE was built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications. CAVE is a groundbreaking research tool that has advanced scientific visualization. Leigh’s presentation will detail his laboratory’s research in visualization, high speed networking and computer-supported cooperative work that has been conducted as part of the OptIPuter project. The OptIPuter, so named for its use of optical networking, combines computational resources over optical networks. The OptIPuter’s central element is optical networking, not computers, and this new project creates "supernetworks." This format will enable greater research collaboration, as scientists who are generating terabytes and petabytes of data can interactively visualize, analyze and correlate their data from multiple storage sites connected to optical networks. More information on Leigh’s lecture is online at www.cct.lsu.edu.