Weekly Seminar: Tom Sederberg
September 09, 2024
When: September 12th @ 11am
Where: TMCB 1170
Talk Title: My Beautiful Odyssey as a Disciple-Scholar
This talk presents some of what I have learned about being a disciple-scholar during my years at BYU, first as a student and later as a professor.
Thomas W. Sederberg retired in 2017 after thirty-nine years on the BYU faculty. His research in computer graphics and computer-aided geometric design earned him the National Science Foundation President Young Investigator Award, the Computer Graphics Achievement Award from ACM SIGGRAPH, and the Pierre Bezier Prize. BYU awarded him the Karl G. Maeser Research Award, a University Professorship Award, the Technology Transfer Award, and the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecture Award. In 1998, he and Bill Barrett founded the Family History Technology Lab in the BYU CS department. In 2014 and 2015, he appeared in Thomson-Reuters' list of the top one percent of highly cited researchers in computer science. He served as associate dean of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in his final twelve years at BYU. More importantly, he and his wife Brenda are parents of eight and grandparents of twenty four. Brenda died in 2012 and he married Maureen in 2016. They served a mission in the New York City Family History Center.