Class Presentations by Students

Each student is expected to lead a lecture of his/her choice of topics, with the instructor's apporval. All students are required to meet the instructor on one-to-one basis to discuss the lecture materials in detail prior to the presentation. One week before the scheduled presentation, s/he will be expected to submit a draft version of the presentation materials and an initial treatment of the selected topics. The instructor will provide timely feedback about the pre-talk. Reading materials and/or discussion issues will be posted on the course web site, at least one day prior to each lecture. All class members will be expected to have read the listed readings, by the start of the relevant class.

Important Deadlines:

  • By Feb. 14, 2009 - Choose a presentation topic and inform the instructor
  • One week before the presentation - Submit a draft of presentation materials
  • One lecture before the presentation - Hand out copies of reading materials, if not available online
  • One day before the presentation - Post the presentation materials on the web

    • Instructions for posting the lecture notes, reading materials, etc.


    Here is the list of topics to be presented by students in the chronological order:

  • Motion Synthesis for Articulated Bodies by Jia Pan (Thurs, March 19, 2009)
  • Traffic Simulation and Agent-based Modeling by David Wilkie (Tues, Mar 24, 2009)
  • Animation of Large Crowd Simulation by Glenn Elliott (Tues, Mar 31, 2009)
  • Cloth Simulation by Yue-Ling Wong (Thurs, April 2, 2009)
  • Hair Simulation by Qi Mo (Thurs/Tues, April 2-7, 2009)
  • Acoustics Simulation by Lakulish Antani (Thurs, April 9, 2009)
  • Intro to Physics-based Deformation by Brendan Walters (Tues, Apr 14, 2009)
  • Medical Simulations by Lisa Lyons (Thurs, Apr 16, 2009)
  • Fluid Simulation by Michael Su (Tues, April 21, 2009)
  • Smoke Simulation by Susu Li (Tues, April 21-23, 2009)
  • Modeling of Granular Materials by Abhinav Golas (Thurs, April 23, 2009)


    • Each student presentation will be graded based upon:

  • Advanced Preparation According to the Specification (40%)
  • Analysis and Discussion of the Materials (40%)
  • Style and Clarity of the Actual Presentation (20%)


    • Each student presentation will be graded based upon:

  • Advanced Preparation According to the Specification (40%)
  • Analysis and Discussion of the Materials (40%)
  • Style and Clarity of the Actual Presentation (20%)