From ziegler at math.TU-Berlin.DE Mon Oct 3 18:57:08 2005 From: ziegler at math.TU-Berlin.DE (Guenter M. Ziegler) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:41:22 2006 Subject: PreDoc-Course Berlin "Optimization Methods in Discrete Geometry" Message-ID: <17217.21716.167407.497134@gargle.gargle.HOWL> ================================================================ PreDoc-Course Berlin, April - June 2006 Optimization Methods in Discrete Geometry (organized by G?nter M. Ziegler and Thorsten Theobald) ================================================================ + reminder: DocCourse Prague, January - March 2006 ================================================================ ****************** CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ******************* PhD students and students preparing to enter a PhD program in Discrete Mathematics or in Computer Science (in a broad sense) are invited to participate in a three months study program. The PreDoc-Course is offered by the International Graduate Programs "Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation" and "Methods for Discrete Structures" (funding pending) of the Free University, the Humboldt University and the Technical University in Berlin, in cooperation with Charles University Prague. It includes four minicourses with exercise sessions and projects: Bernd G?rtner: Linear Programming Methods Komei Fukuda: Polyhedral Computation Thorsten Theobald: Semidefinite Programming Methods Ileana Streinu: Rigidity and it is connected to various other events in discrete mathematics during that time in Berlin (including the Symposium on Discrete Mathematics on April 3-4, see http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~ziegler/dm2006.html ). The Predoc-Course is free of charge. Moreover, there is a limited number of stipends of approximately 1000 EUR per month available. For more information see http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~ziegler/doccourse06.html Application deadlines: for stipends: January 15, 2006 for participation in the PreDoc-Course: March 15, 2006 For senior researchers: If you know bright students who might be interested, please encourage them to apply! The Predoc-Course Berlin is organized in coordination with the DocCourse 2006 "Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation" in Prague (January-March 2006). For information on that programme see http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~matousek/doccourse06.html Application deadline: October 20, 2005. ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ====================================== Prof. G?nter M. Ziegler MATHEON and Institute of Mathematics, MA 6-2 TU Berlin D-10623 Berlin, Germany email: ziegler@math.tu-berlin.de http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~ziegler Tel.: +49 - 30 - 314-25730 office FAX: +49 - 30 - 314-21269 ====================================== ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme Now archived at http://www.uiuc.edu/~sariel/CG/compgeom/maillist.html. From ayellet at ee.technion.ac.il Thu Oct 6 13:28:25 2005 From: ayellet at ee.technion.ac.il (Ayellet Tal) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:41:22 2006 Subject: call for papers: Special Issue on "Mesh Analysis" Message-ID: <1128594505.20386.15.camel@graphics-ee.technion.ac.il> CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS An International Journal of Systems & Applications in Computer Graphics Special Issue on "Mesh Analysis" (vol. 30, no. 6, Dec 2006) Recent progress in digital data storage, digital data acquisition, and modeling techniques have made large repositories of meshes increasingly more accessible. Meshes are used in numerous application fields of computer graphics including motion pictures, computer games, computer aided design, medical and engineering. Developing effective techniques for representing, analyzing, searching and re-using meshes has become an important challenge in computer graphics. Contributions to the special issue describing original research are solicited which present automatic as well as interactive techniques for mesh analysis. Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Mesh segmentation and partitioning * Mesh sub-part re-use * Mesh editing and manipulation * Mesh feature extraction * Fixing mesh models * Mesh registration * Mesh deformations * Similarity measures between meshes * Matching and partial matching of meshes * Search and retrieval of meshes * Mesh recognition * Parameterization * Ontologies Papers for this special issue will be chosen from the submissions based on their quality and originality. Papers published previously in conferences should contain significant new material, while including the previous version with the submission. Please submit your manuscript via email to cg.special.issue@idc.ac.il. Your email message should include the paper title, author names, contact author address and email, abstract, and attached pdf file. Important dates: Submission Deadline: Nov. 5, 2005 Completion of Minor Revision Reviews: Feb. 5, 2006 Publication Materials Due: May 5, 2006 Publication: Dec 2006 Please address all questions and correspondence regarding this special issue to the following address: cg.special.issue@idc.ac.il Guest Editors: Ayellet Tal Technion ayellet@ee.technion.ac.il Thomas A. Funkhouser Princeton University funk@cs.princeton.edu Ariel Shamir The interdisciplinary center arik@idc.ac.il -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: MeshAnalysisCall.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 117159 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://compgeom.poly.edu/pipermail/compgeom-announce/attachments/20051006/55b205ec/MeshAnalysisCall.pdf From amenta at cs.ucdavis.edu Thu Oct 6 18:47:39 2005 From: amenta at cs.ucdavis.edu (Nina Amenta) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:41:22 2006 Subject: CFP - Symposium on Computational Geometry Message-ID: <4345C5AB.2070603@cs.ucdavis.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS, VIDEOS AND MULTIMEDIA Symposium on Computational Geometry June 5 - 7, 2006 Hilton Sedona, Sedona, Arizona, USA http://socg06.cs.arizona.edu Sponsored by ACM SIGACT and SIGGRAPH The Twenty-Second Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, featuring both theoretical and applied research and a video/multimedia review will be held at the Hilton Sedona, Sedona, Arizona (USA), and will be organized by the University of Arizona at Tucson, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. We invite high-quality submissions based on research into geometric algorithms and data structures, into their implementation, into their supporting mathematics, and into their applications in computer graphics, geometric processing, computer-aided design and manufacturing, computational biology, geographic information systems, medicine, robotics, sensor networks, database systems, and other areas. The Program Committee spans theoretical and applied interests in computational geometry and encourages submissions of theoretical, applied, or experimental nature to the conference. Topics of a theoretical nature include, but are not limited to: design and theoretical analysis of geometric algorithms and data structures; lower bounds for geometric problems; and discrete and combinatorial geometry. Topics of an applied and experimental nature include, but are not limited to: mathematical and numerical issues arising from implementations; experimental analysis of algorithms and data structures; and novel uses of computational geometry in other disciplines. The accepted papers will be published by ACM in the symposium proceedings, which will be distributed to symposium participants, and available from ACM for purchase or through the digital library. A selection of papers from the conference will be invited to special issues of journals in the field. We encourage the submission of papers supported by multimedia or video presentations. Supporting presentations will be automatically considered as a submission to the multimedia/video track, unless the authors request otherwise. Supporting material may help in the paper review process. PAPER SUBMISSION Electronic submissions (see http://socg06.cs.arizona.edu) in pdf or postscript are preferred. (For files over 5Mb, or if electronic submission is infeasible, please contact one of the program chairs.) Nina Amenta Department of Computer Science University of California 2063 Engineering II One Sheilds Avenue Davis, CA 95616, USA Phone: (530)-754-5377 Fax: (530)-752-4767 Email: amenta"at"cs.ucdavis.edu Otfried Cheong Division of Computer Science KAIST 373-1 Guseong-dong Yuseong-gu Daejeon 305-701 South Korea Phone: +82-42-869-3542 Fax: +82-42-869-3510 Email: otfried"at"cs.kaist.ac.kr IMPORTANT DATES November 23, 2005: Abstract due December 5, 2005: Papers due February 15, 2006: Notification of acceptance or rejection for papers March 1, 2006: Video and Multimedia submissions due March 15, 2006: Notification for Video/MM submissions March 29, 2006: Camera-ready papers and video/MM abstracts due April 29, 2006: Final versions of video/MM presentations due June 5-7, 2006: Symposium in Sedona SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract, which begins with the title of the paper, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, followed by a clear statement of the problem considered, a succinct summary of the results obtained, a brief discussion of the significance and novelty of the research, and a clear comparison with related work. The remainder of the extended abstract should provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to evaluate the validity, quality, and relevance of the contribution. The extended abstract should not exceed 10 pages, using 10-point font, single column format, and reasonable line spacing and margins. (Submissions in reasonable alternative styles are accepted, including two-column submissions, as long as the font is at least 10-point size, and the amount of text does not exceed the equivalent of 10-page single column format. Unfortunately, the traditional final proceedings style with its 9-point font is not suitable for reviewing.) Authors may include in a clearly marked appendix additional technical details that do not fit into the 10-page limit; this appendix will not be regarded as a part of the submission and will be considered only at the program committee's discretion. Authors must submit the title and abstract of their paper by November 23, 2005 (Honolulu time). The extended abstracts in electronic form must then be received before the end of December 5, 2005 (Honolulu time). Late submissions will not be considered. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by February 15, 2006. A full version of each contribution in final form will be due by March 29, 2006 for inclusion in the proceedings. LaTeX style files for preparing the final version will be made available in due time. CONFERENCE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Alon Efrat (University of Arizona) Stephen G. Kobourov (University of Arizona) Carola Wenk (University of Texas at San Antonio) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nina Amenta (co-chair; University of California at Davis) Dominique Attali (CNRS-LIS Grenoble) Peter Brass (City University of New York) Timothy Chan (University of Waterloo) Otfried Cheong (co-chair; Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Ken Clarkson (Bell Labs) Sylvain Lazard (INRIA Lorraine) Joseph O'Rourke (Smith College) Rom Pinchasi (Technion) Sylvain Pion (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis) Emil Praun (University of Utah) Raimund Seidel (UniversitC$t des Saarlandes) Alper Ungor (University of Florida) Antoine Vigneron (National University of Singapore and INRA) Yusu Wang (Ohio University) Sue Whitesides (McGill University) CALL FOR VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS Video and multimedia presentations are sought for the 15th Video Review of computational geometry. This showcases the use of visualization in computational geometry for exposition and education, for the visual exploration of geometry in research, and as an interface and debugging tool in software development. We welcome algorithm animations, visual explanations of structural theorems, descriptions of computational geometry applications, and demonstrations of software systems. Three to five minutes is ideal for most animations and presentations of applications; eight minutes is the upper limit. Standard VHS videotape is allowed, but electronic formats are encouraged (QuickTime, MPEG, .avi, .mov, or RealPlayer). We also encourage submission of interactive Java applets, Macromedia Flash, or other common multimedia formats, along with a script that will allow them to be distributed in both interactive and canned QT or MPEG movie formats. Please email the Video and Multimedia Program chair with any questions about formats. Some other suggestions on making videos can be found at http://www.cs.unc.edu/~snoeyink/videosuggestions.html. As in previous years, accepted video and multimedia presentations will have an abstract in the published conference proceedings, and be available online in a web proceedings, e.g.: http://compgeom.poly.edu/acmvideos/socg05video. Note that the final versions will be distributed in Quicktime MPEG-4 and Divx formats, at 720x576 and 360x288 resolutions. VIDEO/MULTIMEDIA SUBMISSION Videos may accompany papers submitted to the technical program committee; these will be passed to the video program for consideration unless the authors request other handling. For electronic submission of a video or multimedia presentation, the author(s) should submit a one or two-page description of the material shown in the presentation, and where applicable, the techniques used in the implementation, to the Video Review section of the electronic submission server (linked from http://socg06.cs.arizona.edu). Include an email address of the correspondence author and a URL or ftp address where the presentation can be retrieved. Additional material describing the contents of the presentations, such as the full text of accompanying papers, may also be included. The final descriptions must be formatted according to the guidelines for ACM proceedings. As an alternative, descriptions and videos on VHS videotape, in either NTSC or PAL format, can be sent to the video and multimedia presentations program chair, to arrive by March 1, 2005: Jack Snoeyink UNC-CH Computer Science CB 3175 Sitterson Hall Chapel Hill, NC, USA 27599-3175 Email: snoeyink"at"cs.unc.edu Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection, and given reviewers' comments by March 15, 2006. For each accepted presentation, the final version of the 2-page textual description will be due by March 29, 2006 (electronically) for inclusion in the proceedings. Final versions of accepted video/MM presentations will be due April 19, 2006 in the best format available. VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jack Snoeyink (chair; UNC Chapel Hill) TBA STEERING COMMITTEE Pankaj K. Agarwal (Chair) Mark de Berg (Secretary) Ferran Hurtado Joseph S. B. 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From clarkson at research.bell-labs.com Wed Oct 12 17:06:23 2005 From: clarkson at research.bell-labs.com (Ken Clarkson) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:41:22 2006 Subject: Submission deadline reminder,15th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry In-Reply-To: <433DA978.6040401@research.bell-labs.com> References: <433DA978.6040401@research.bell-labs.com> Message-ID: <434D6CBF.8060203@research.bell-labs.com> Reminder: the submission deadline is Oct 19, one short week away. > CALL FOR PAPERS. > > 15th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry > Nov 18,19, 2005 > University of Pennsylvania. > > URL: http://www.research.att.com/fwcg05/ > > The aim of this workshop is to bring together students and researchers > from academia and industry, to stimulate collaboration on problems of > common interest arising in geometric computations. Topics to be covered > include, but are not limited to: > > o Algorithmic methods in geometry > o I/O-scalable geometric algorithms > o Animation of geometric algorithms > o Computer graphics > o Solid modeling > o Geographic information systems > o Computational metrology > o Graph drawing > o Experimental studies > o Folding and unfolding > o Geometric data structures > o Kinetic data structures > o Implementation issues > o Robustness in geometric computations > o Geometric approximation algorithms > o Computer vision > o Robotics > o Computer-aided design > o Mesh generation > o Manufacturing applications of geometry > o Computational biology and geometric computations > o Computational statistics > o Visualization (Scientific/Information/Geometric) > > Following the tradition of the previous Fall Workshops on Computational > Geometry, the format of the workshop will be informal, extending over two > days (Friday-Saturday), with several breaks scheduled for discussions. > Authors are invited to submit abstracts for talks to be given at the > workshop. Please send an abstract (up to 2 pages) and, if available, a > draft of a paper. Because there are no formal proceedings for the > workshop, submission of material submitted to a refereed conference > (e.g., > SODA 06) is allowed and encouraged. > > Submission: > Send your abstract as a PDF file to Suresh Venkatasubramanian > (suresh@research.att.com). The subject line should say 'Submission for > FWCG 2005'. > > Submission Deadline: Oct 19 > Announcement of accepted abstracts: Oct 26 > Final Abstracts due: Nov 2 ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme Now archived at http://www.uiuc.edu/~sariel/CG/compgeom/maillist.html. From casa2006 at MIRALAB.UNIGE.CH Fri Oct 14 17:06:19 2005 From: casa2006 at MIRALAB.UNIGE.CH (casa2006) Date: Mon Jan 9 13:41:22 2006 Subject: Call for Papers CASA2006 (COMPUTER ANIMATION and SOCIAL AGENTS 2006) Message-ID: ____________________________________________________________ The computer Graphics Society (CGS) is pleased to announce The COMPUTER ANIMATION and SOCIAL AGENTS 2006 Conference ____________________________________________________________ Website: http://casa2006.miralab.unige.ch MIRALab (University of Geneva, Switzerland) will organize the 19th annual conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2006) with the support of the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). The Conference will be held at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, 5th - 7th July 2006. IMPORTANT DATES OF CASA2006: 1) Submission of papers: April 10th 2006 2) Notification to authors: May 2nd 2006 3) Camera ready accepted papers to Wiley: May 12th 2006 4) Conference venue: 5th-7th July 2006 at the University of Geneva (Uni Dufour) ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED AS A JOURNAL PAPER IN THE COMPUTER ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL WORLDS JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY JOHN WILEY (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/106562739) During three days, professionals specialized in almost all fields of Computer Animation will analyze the state of the art of this topic and share their ideas, concepts and opinions. The conference tracks include: >>Animation Techniques :: Motion control :: Motion capture and retargeting :: Path planning :: Physics-based animation :: Vision techniques in animation :: Behavioral animation :: Artificial life :: Image rendering in animation :: Deformable Models :: Facial Animation >>Social agents :: Social agents and avatars :: Emotions and personality :: Simulation involving Virtual Humans :: Autonomous characters and actors :: A.I. - based animation :: Social and Conversational agents :: Interagent communication :: Modeling of groups and crowds :: Social behavior :: Autonomous Virtual Humans in games >>Virtual Environnement :: Medical 3D simulation :: Simulation involving Virtual Humans :: Virtual Cultural Heritage :: Autonomous characters and actors :: VCE (Virtual Collaborative Environments) :: A.I. - based animation :: Virtual reality :: Interaction with Virtual Humans :: Augmented Reality :: Perceptual models :: Virtual Sensors _____________________________________ All queries can be sent to: The CASA2006 Local Committee Email: casa2006@miralab.unige.ch Fax: +41 22 379 7780 Website: http://casa2006.miralab.unige.ch __________________________________________________________________ ------------- The compgeom mailing lists: see http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html or send mail to compgeom-request@research.bell-labs.com with the line: send readme Now archived at http://www.uiuc.edu/~sariel/CG/compgeom/maillist.html.