[General] CFP: CGE'06 the 2006 Workshop on Computer Graphics Education

Call for Participation CGE'06 the 2006 Workshop on Computer Graphics Education: "Defining an International Curriculum in Computer Graphics" September 9, 2006, Vienna, Austria Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics We invite you to participate in the 2006 edition of the Computer Graphics Education Workshop. Our aim is to define an international curriculum in Computer Graphics which respects the Bologna requirements (EU) and reflects the international nature of the computer graphics education workshops to date. This one-day workshop will be held in conjunction with the Eurographics 2006 conference in Vienna, Austria. This workshop will continue the sequence of computer graphics education workshops over the last few years. These workshops and links to their reports are: - 1999 Coimbra: http://www.siggraph.org/education/conferences/GVE99/papers/GVE.FullReport.p… - 2002 Bristol: http://www.siggraph.org/education/bristol/bristol.htm - 2004 Hangzhou: http://www.siggraph.org/symposia/reports/Rep2004CGEworkshop.pdf We welcome the participation of persons interested in and committed to computer graphics education. Participation will be on the basis of accepted position papers. Each position paper should: - be two to four pages long (standard single-spaced text), - have a single author, - describe the author's view on or experience with a topic that fits the theme of the workshop, - be submitted electronically, to one of the workshop co-chairs, before April 28, 2006. They will be reviewed by the workshop's organizing committee and additional reviewers as needed, and invitations are expected to be extended by June 9, 2006. We expect to limit the number of participants to 30-40. The workshop will include lunch, coffee breaks, and there will be a registration fee of 40 Euros to cover the expenses for these. We encourage anyone interested in the workshop to consider attending the education programme at the Eurographics 06 conference whose announcement is at http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/events/EG06/education.php A fairly good overview of the European Higher Education Area (from the Bologna declaration) can be found at http://www.wes.org/ewenr/04jan/Feature.htm Workshop co-chairs: Jean-Jacques Bourdin, jj(a)ai.univ-paris8.fr, University of Paris 8, France Steve Cunningham, rsc(a)cs.csustan.edu, Grinnell College, USA Marta Fairén, mfairen(a)lsi.upc.edu, Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Spain