[General] Shape Modeling International 2012 - Early-bird Registration: April 29

Dear colleague, We would like to invite you to join us in College Station, Texas from May 22-25 for Shape Modeling International (SMI) 2012. We are very excited to have a great program lined up, including three keynote speeches, four courses, and 39 paper presentations. The program, including the list of keynote speeches, papers, and courses is available on our website: http://smi2012.viz.tamu.edu/ Early-bird registration closes on Sunday, April 29. Please make sure to register soon to catch the reduced rates. The online registration form is available on our website at: http://smi2012.viz.tamu.edu/32.shtml Hotel and travel information can also be found on our website. We hope you join us in College Station! Best regards, Ergun Akleman & John Keyser Conference Chairs == Further information: http://smi2012.viz.tamu.edu/ _______________________________________________________________________ SMI'2012 Shape Modeling International 2012 Conference Chairs: Ergun Akleman and John Keyser Shape Modeling International (SMI) provides an international forum for the dissemination of new mathematical theories and computational techniques for modeling, simulating, and processing digital representations of shapes and their properties to a community of researchers, developers, students, and practitioners across a wide range of fields. Shape Modeling International 2012 (SMI’12) will be organized in College Station Texas from May 22nd 2012 to May 25th 2012. The conference will be held using classroom and auditorium spaces in the Langford Center of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. The main auditorum will be the Geren auditorum in Langford Center B. The conference will have activities including keynote speeches, technical papers, practical papers, courses & tutorials, and a sculpture exhibition. The following list is a detailed explanation of the activities: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Helmut Pottmann : Freeform Architecture and Fabrication-Aware Design Greg N. Frederickson: Beyond Swinging: Hinged Dissections that Twist or Fold Carlo H. Séquin: The Design and Realization of Large-Scale Free-Form Sculptures Abstracts for the keynote talks are available on the website. TECHNICAL PAPERS Chairs: John Hart and Scott Schaefer Technical papers, as before, form the core of the conference. 20 full papers and 11 short papers have been accepted. All papers will be appearing in the journal Computers & Graphics, and will be presented during the conference. The technical paper sessions include Processing Parametric Models, Geometry Compression, Interactive Modeling, Fitting, Differential Geometry, Modeling, Computational Geometry and Deformable Surfaces. FABRICATION & SCULPTING EVENT (FASE) Chairs: Carlo Séquin and Wei Yan Eight papers have been accepted as FASE papers. These will be published in a special issue of Hyperseeing magazine and also be presented in FASE sessions at the conference. COURSES & TUTORIALS Chairs: Cindy Grimm and Ann McNamara Two 2-hour courses will be presented the second day of the conference, in parallel sessions: Quaternions and Dual Quaternions by Ron Goldman Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation: Computation and Applications by Wenping Wang Two half-day courses will be presented the third day of the conference in parallel sessions: Surface-, Flow-, and Volume-Based Techniques for Shape Modeling by Giuseppe Patane, David Xiangfeng Gu, Xin Shane Li and Michela Spagnuolo Implicit Modelling by Brian Wyvill, Alexander Pasko, John Hart and Herbert Grasberger VIRTUAL & PHYSICAL SHAPE EXHIBITION Chairs: Gabriel Esquivel and Goran Konjevod A conference exhibition will be held in the Exhibition Gallery in Langford Center A. In addition to accepted artworks, some works from conference participants will be on display. Ergun Akleman Apr 22 (2 days ago) to Mark Hi Mark, I am sending this email to inform you coming SMI conference. See that well-known researchers related to Architectural modeling and sculpting such as Helmut Pottmann and Carlo Sequin will give key not speeches and Weinping Wang will give a course. We will also have many other interesting presentations. Please feel free to share with anybody who may be interested in.