| When | What/Where | Details |
| June 15, 2003 | Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL | Released VMD 1.8.1 |
| June 8, 2003 | Pontiac, MI | John Patchin's wedding |
| June 2-13, 2003 | Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL | Summer School on Theoretical and Computational Biophysics |
| May 12, 2003 | TCB group | NIH Annual Progress Report |
| April 30 to May 2, 2003 | Holiday Inn, Urbana | Alliance/NCSA All Hands Meeting |
| April 22, 2003 | Beckman Institute | Seminar by Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology, Google, Inc. |
| March 7, 2003 | 8pm Colwell Playhouse | "Arcadia", by Tom Stoppard |
| July 21-26, 2002 | San Antonio, TX | Siggraph 2002 |
| March 13-15, 2002 | Beckman Institute, UIUC | NIH site visit for renewal of TB NCRR resource grant |
| November 19, 2001 | Beckman Institute | TB Seminar: Chris Johnson, Utah |
| February 11, 2002 | Beckman Institute | TB Seminar: Herbert Edelsbrunner (hosting with Justin) |
| November 5-15, 2001 | Maui, HI | Vacationed in Kaanapali on Maui |
| September 5, 2001 | Advanced Computation Building, NCSA, University of Illinois | Demonstrated VMD running on a 2 by 3 tiled display using a cluster of PCs rendering in parallel for the TeraGrid inauguration. |
| August 11-18, 2001 | Siggraph 2001, Los Angeles CA | Gave demonstrations of interactive molecular dynamics using VMD, NAMD, a 24-processor SunFire 6800, an 8-processor SunFire 3800, and a dual-headed SunBlade 1000, with a Spaceball and a Sensable "Phantom" haptic device. |
| June 25-27, 2001 | Urbana | NCSA Linux Revolution Conference |
| June 25, 2001 | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois | Held a tutorial as part of the NCSA Linux Clusters Conference, teaching participants how to build a cluster of PC's for parallel computing using Scyld's Beowful Distribution. |
| June 18, 2001 | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois | Held a tutorial teaching participants how to build a cluster of PC's for parallel computing using Scyld's Beowful Distribution. |
| May 2, 2001 | BI tower room and TB group | NIH Advisory Board tr> |
| April 3, 2001 | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois | Held a tutorial on software development tools, particularly focused towards the needs of scientists in the field of biophysics, computational chemistry, and related disciplines. |
| March 21, 2001 | Research Triangle Park, North Carolina | Presented our paper on Interactive Molecular Dynamics Simulation at the ACM Siggraph 2001 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics |
| October 21, 2000 | Illini Union, University of Illinois | Competed in the 13th Annual Dancing Illini Invitational ballroom dancing competition, with my partner Lisa Ankenbrand |
| May 28 to June 17, 2000 | Europe | I took a nice long vacation to Europe, where I spent time in Denmark, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. |
| November 11, 1999 | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois | Held an Imaging Technology Group Forum on the subject of workstation clusters, with my colleague Jim Phillips. Talked about various software/hardware issues, and how to go about setting up a cluster. The title of the talk was "Linux Clusters" but the talk was much more generally applicable. |
| October 28, 1999 | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois | IMD/VMD Demo (the software I develop at UIUC) for Jiri Jonas, (Director, Beckman Institute) and Larry Smarr (Director, NCSA). |
| September 16, 1999 | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois | I gave my annual report on VMD at the NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics advisory board meeting. |
| August 7, 1999 | Geneseo Country Club, Geneseo Illinois | I attended my 10 year high school class reunion, wow, that was an interesting experience. It was fun. Wow how people do (and don't) change... Although I hadn't seen most of these people more than once in the last 10 years, it was somehow very fulfilling to get to catch up on old times with them again. |
| May 11th, 1999 | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois | Gave a short talk about molecular visualization (with VMD) to Illinois Congressman Thomas Ewing, his staff, and U-C area reporters. |
| March 5-6th, 1999 | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois | My colleague Thorsten Ritz and I won the "Overall Best" award for our demo "VMD: A Next Generation Visualizer of Complex Molecular Structures" at the 1999 Beckman Institute Open House. |
| December 1999 | San Francisco, California | I spend a week visiting my brother George and his girlfriend Delia, with my family. It was a great trip, certainly quite different from the snow that I had just returned from in Colorado. On Christmas Eve we got to watch the Sun go down on the Pacific Ocean while we ate dinner at the Cliff House restaurant. Now _that_ was cool :-) |
| December 1999 | Breckenridge, Colorado | I went on a ski trip with my good friend Olga Shumsky, and with 3 of her friends from Northwestern University. We also met up with Dave Leach, who is lucky enough to live out there near Denver. It was a blast. There wasn't as much snow as we hoped, but Colorado is still Colorado :-) |
| August 15, 1998 | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois | I gave my annual report on VMD at the NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics advisory board meeting. |
| April 21, 1998 | University of Missouri-Rolla | I succesffully defended my Masters thesis in Computer Science. My thesis is titled "An Efficient Library for Parallel Ray Tracing and Animation" |
| April 5-13, 1998 | London England | I went on a week long trip to London with my family, it was a great trip and I'd do it again any time :-) |
| August 3-8th, 1997 | Siggraph '97, Los Angeles | Went to Siggraph with Heuris Logic. Helped demo our latest software in the Sun and DEC booths, and networked like a maniac. I also got invited to go to the Digital Domain party in Century City, which was held in celebration of their special effects work on "Titanic", that was one hell of a party :-) They had George Clinton playing live, which was a great time. |
| April 5-11, 1997 | National Association of Broadcasters convention, Las Vegas | Went to NAB with Heuris Logic. My paper on VIS enhanced MPEG encoding was included in the 1997 NAB "Interactive Insights" multimedia compendium. The paper is titled: "Accelerating Software-based MPEG Encoding Using the VIS Instruction Set". |
| November 17-21, 1996 | COMDEX Fall '96, Las Vegas, NV | I went to Fall COMDEX with Heuris/Pulitzer |
| August 7-13, 1996 | Siggraph '96, New Orleans, LA | I went to Siggraph for the first time, paying my own way. |
| June 1996 | '96 MPI Developers Conference, Notre Dame, IN | Presented my parallel raytracing work at the annual MPI developers conference. This was an interdisciplinary project with Mark Underwood. We combined his CFD code with my rendering software to do runtime visualization of his CFD simulations. |
| June 1996 | Intel Supercomputer Users Group Conference | Presented my parallel raytracing work at the annual ISUG conference. This was an interdisciplinary project with Mark Underwood. We combined his CFD code with my rendering software to do runtime visualization of his CFD simulations. |
| April, 1996 | National Association of Broadcasters Convention | I went with Heuris/Pulitzer to NAB '96 in Las Vegas. Quite a different crowd than at COMDEX. Overall a much more interesting show, especially since the focus was on video and computer graphics type stuff. |
| April, 1996 | ISC Open House / Research Presentation Contest | First Place Prize Winner in the Intelligent Systems Center Graduate Research Presentation Contest. This was an interdisciplinary project with Mark Underwood. We combined his CFD code with my rendering software to do runtime visualization of his CFD simulations. |
| February 12th-18th, 1996 | ACM Computing Week, Philadelphia PA | My team placed 17th in the 21st Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. |
| November 13th-17th, 1995 | COMDEX/Fall '95, Las Vegas | I went with Heuris/Pulitzer to COMDEX, and was blown away by the sights and sounds of Las Vegas :-) It was the first time I've been to Las Vegas, and COMDEX, so it was an interesting experience for me. |
| November 5th, 1995 | Regional ACM Programming Contest | Hal Burch, Rob Ziegler, and myself, went to the 1995 Regional ACM programming contest, and got 2nd place in our region.. We'll be going to finals in February '96!!!!! |
| June 21-23, 1995 | Intel Supercomputer Users' Group Conference, Albequerque New Mexico | I presented my parallel raytracing work at the ISUG '95 conference at Sandia National Labs. It was a blast, I had a great time.. The food down there was great too! |
| March 30, 1995 | ISC Graduate Research Paper Contest | I won one of the 7 "best paper" prizes at the Graduate Research Paper Contest held at the UMR Intelligent Systems Center. I gave my paper on my parallel raytracing work. If you are interested, newer papers on this work is available Here. |
| October 11, 1994 | Mississippi State University/NSF MPI Tutorial. | I attended the 1994 Message Passing Interface tutorial held at the Mississippi State University / National Science Foundation Center for Computational Field Simulation. This is where my friend Thom McMahon and I first met Tony Skjellum. |
| Summer Semester 1994 | GTA for the 1994 Thai Teacher Training Program. | I helped Dr. Tom Sager teach C++ and Object Oriented Programming. I was responsible for the laboratory portion of the class. |
| May 19-21, 1994 | Computing demos for the University of Missouri Board of Curators. | I helped organize and execute demos of HPCC applications over WAN, Unix based video conferencing, World Wide Web, and scientific visualization for the UM Board of Curators meeting held at UMR's University Center. |
| April 22, 1994 | Arkansas College Scottish Festival | I performed with the pipe band at the annual festival down in Arkansas. I Didn't play a solo this year, no time to prepare. (bummer!) |
| April 21, 1993 | Arkansas College Scottish Festival | I performed with the pipe band at the annual festival down in Arkansas. I played a drum solo accompanied by Mike Pfleegor, in Grade III drumming. (need to look up results, but I didn't get in top 3..) |
| April 22, 1992 | Arkansas College Scottish Festival | I performed with the pipe band at the annual festival down in Arkansas. I played a solo accompanied by Mike Pfleegor in Grade III drumming, and came in second place. |
| May 1992, MACAP Meeting | Argonne National Lab, Argonne IL | I gave a cleaned up version of the presentation I gave at the Missouri Academy of Science meeting for the annual cloud and aerosol sciences meeting that was held at Argonne that year. |
| March 1992 | Missouri Academy of Science | I participated in the Missouri Academy of Science Competition with a talk on my research at the Cloud and Aerosol Sciences Lab. |
| August 1990 | National High Power Rifle Championships, Camp Perry - Port Clinton Ohio | I was on the Illinois State junior (under 21) rifle team, and a member of the 6 man team that won the 1990 National Infantry Trophy Team match. |