IDAV Researchers Mathias Hummel and Christoph Garth from the University of Kaiserslautern, and Harald Obermaier and Kenneth I. Joy have won the best paper award at IEEE Visualization 2013. The paper "Comparative Analysis of Lagrangian Transport in CFD Ensembles" is one of the first papers to discuss visualization of flow ensembles.

Hank Childs has accepted a faculty position in the Computer and Information Sciences Department at the University of Oregon. Hank has held a joint positions between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization at UC Davis for the past 3 years. He will joint the faculty at UO in the spring of 2013.