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          CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 IEEE Shape Modeling and Applications 2006 (SMI2006)

  In cooperation with Eurographics, ACM SIGGRAPH, CGS

     June 14-16, 2006, Matsushima, JAPAN

     http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/SMI06/
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Advance registration deadline: May 19, 2006
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The preliminary program of the 8th International Conference on
Shape Modeling and Applications is now available from
http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/SMI06/program.html,
which includes 3 invited talks, 20 regular paper and 10 short
paper presentations.


Invited Talks
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- Bruno Levy
  Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunctions: Towards an Algorithm That "Understands"
Geometry

- Fujio Yamaguchi
  Shape Modeling in a Homogenized Geometric Paradigm

- Alla Sheffer
  Shape Modeling for Dummies

Abstracts are available from http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/SMI06/invited.html

The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.


Registration details can be found at
http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/SMI06/registration.html


SMI this year is co-located with the two international meetings:

Third International Symposium on Transdisciplinary Fluid Integration
(TFI-2006)(12-13th June)
http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/tfi-2006/

AIM@SHAPE First International Workshop on Shapes and Semantics
(S&S2006)(17th June)
http://www.aimatshape.net/events-archive/ShapesSemantics

SHREC-3D Shape Retrieval Contest results will be presented during SMI2006.


Looking forward to seeing you in Matsushima, JAPAN this June.

Issei Fujishiro, Bianca Falcidieno
Conference Co-Chairs


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For further questions, please contact SMI2006 Conference Secretariat:
smi06@vis.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp
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