Presenter

Dr. James Ahrens is a senior scientist in the Applied Computer Science Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His primary research interests are visualization, computer graphics, data science, and parallel systems. Ahrens is author of over 95 peer reviewed papers and the founder/design lead of ParaView, an open-source visualization tool designed to handle extremely large data. ParaView is broadly used for scientific visualization, downloaded approximately a half million times per year, and is in use at supercomputing and scientific centers worldwide.