===================================================================
6th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
   (EGPGV'06)
 
               May 11-12, 2006, Braga, Portugal
 
  (in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH)
 
                http://www.di.uminho.pt/egpgv06
===================================================================
 
        ---------------------
                      Call for Participation
        ---------------------
 
 *********************************************************
 *       *
 *   Early Bird Registration   *
 *       *
 *      31.March.2006   *
 *       *
 *********************************************************
 
The preliminary program for the 6th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Grahics
and Visualization is now available from the web page.
 
There will be 19 high quality full papers and two invited speakers:
 
Dr. Alan Chalmers
"Rendering on Demand"
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
 
Dr. James T. Klosowski
"The Challenges of Commodity-Based Visualization Clusters"
Visualization Systems, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
 
There will also be a short paper session presenting ongoing innovative work.
 
Join us in Braga, Portugal, for a two-day exciting symposium.
Registration details can be found at http://www.di.uminho.pt/egpgv06
 
Looking forward to meet you in May,
 
Luis Paulo Santos
Symposium Chair
 

Aims and Scope of the Symposium
-------------------------------
 
Following successful  previous  workshops/symposia  that were held  in
Grenoble  (F)  2004, Bristol (UK)  1996,  Rennes (F)  1998, Girona (E)
2000, and Blaubeuren  (D) 2002, we  are happy  to  announce the  6th
Eurographics  Symposium on Parallel Graphics   and Visualization.  The
aim of  this  symposium  is  to share   experiences and knowledge   of
parallel and distributed computing and its  application to all aspects
of  computer   graphics, virtual  reality,  scientific and engineering
visualization.
 
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
 
  Cluster based graphics and visualization
  Efficient graphics and visualization for shared and distributed memory systems
  Parallel and distributed systems for large and high resolution displays
  Parallel and distributed systems for photo-realistic rendering
  Parallel volume rendering
  Real-time systems for 3D virtual reality
  Data coherence in graphics algorithms
  Large data set visualization
  Large model realistic rendering
  Large scale simulations and graphics rendering
  Graphics and visualization in grid environments
  Parallel simulations for interactive applications
  Parallelism within GPU architectures
  GPU clusters
 

The EGPGV Symposium will follow the Eurovis06 Symposium on Visualization and the
Eurographics Workshop in Virtual Environments that will take place in Lisbon, Portugal,
on the same week, from the 8th to the 10th of May, 2006 .
 

Invited Speakers
----------------
 
Alan Chalmers
Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
 
James T. Klosowski
Visualization Systems
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
 

Papers and Short Papers
------------------------------
 
The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Eurographics Proceedings Series.
 
Selected papers will also be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Parallel Computing, following a tradition established on 2004.
 
There will be a "best paper" award based on the content of the paper and selected by the Program chairs. There will also be a "best presentation" award based on the oral presentation and selected by all the symposium attendees.
 

Workshop and Program co-chairs
------------------------------
 
    Luis Paulo Santos, University of Minho
    Bruno Raffin, IMAG-ID, MOAIS/INRIA
    Alan Heirich, Sony Computer Entertainment America
 

Local Organizers
----------------
 
Aderito Marcos, Center for Computer Graphics
Antonio Augusto Sousa, FE, University of Porto
Antonio Ramires Fernandes, DI, University of Minho
Cristina Santos, DEI, University of Minho
Joao LuĦs Sobral, DI, University of Minho
Joao Madeiras Pereira, IST/INESC
Luis Paulo Santos, DI, University of Minho
Vitor Sa ,  DSI, University of Minho
 

Program Committee
-----------------
 
Dirk Bartz, WSI/GRIS - VCM, University of Tubingen
Georges-Pierre Bonneau, CNRS
Kadi Bouatouch, IRISA
Montserrat Boo Cepeda, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol
Paolo Cignoni, IEI - CNR
Thomas Ertl,  University of Stuttgart
Issei Fujishiro, Tohoku University
Charles Hansen, University of Utah
Jian Huang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ulrich Lang, ZAIG, University of Cologne
Margarita Amor Lopez, University of A Coruna
Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis
Jamie Painter, BlackMesa Capital
Xavier Pueyo, University of Girona
Erik Reinhard, University of Bristol
Bengt-Olaf Schneider, NVIDIA
Han-Wei Shen, Ohio State University
Claudio Silva, University of Utah
Philipp Slusallek, Saarland University 
Rudiger Westermann, TU Mnchen
Craig M. Wittenbrink, NVIDIA
 
----------------------------------------------------------
 
Web Page: http://www.di.uminho.pt/egpgv06
 
For further questions please contact egpgv06@di.uminho.pt
----------------------------------------------------------