[General] Call for Participation: International Geometry Summit (IGS) 2019, June 17-21, Vancouver, Canada (Registration OPEN!)

The Second International Geometry Summit (IGS) will be held in Vancouver, Canada, June 17-21, 2019: <http://geometrysummit2019.org/> http://geometrysummit2019.org/ The conference venues will be at the Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University, and the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, in downtown Vancouver. Both venues are near the waterfront and a couple of blocks away from the Vancouver Convention Centre, which has hosted SIGGRAPH multiple times in recent years. After a successful IGS’16 in Berlin, IGS’19 will host four prominent geometry conferences: Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) - June 17-19 SIAM Conference on Computational Geometric Design (SIAM GD) - June 17-19 Shape Modeling International (SMI) - June 19-21 Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP) - June 19-21 One Summit registration provides access to all four conferences, as well as lunches, coffee+snacks for all five days, and a dinner banquet on Wednesday night. IGS’19 will feature a slew of internationally renowned keynote speakers: Michael Bronstein, Imperial College London, UK Annalisa Buffa, EPFL, Switzerland Mark Gammon, International TechneGroup Inc., UK Alec Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada Hui Huang, Shenzhen University, China Shahram Izadi, Google, USA Ligang Liu, University of Science and Technology, China Holly Rushmeier, Yale University, USA Scott Schaefer, Texas A&M University, USA Emily Whiting, Boston University, USA Jessica Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA and one talk by the 2019 Pierre Bézier Awardee from the Solid Modeling Association (confirmation pending). All the keynote talks will be scheduled in a single track, without overlapping, so attendees won’t miss any of them. Registration is now open: <https://ungerboeck.its.sfu.ca/emc00/PublicSignIn.aspx?&SessionID=fb8ej8fekf f4ff2&Lang=*> https://ungerboeck.its.sfu.ca/emc00/PublicSignIn.aspx?&SessionID=fb8ej8… 4ff2&Lang=* We hope to see many of you in beautiful Vancouver in late June! Summit Co-Chairs: ================= Konrad Polthier, Free University of Berlin, Germany Weeping Wang, University of Hong Kong, China Richard Zhang, Simon Fraser University, Canada Local Organization Chair: ========================= Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, Simon Fraser University, Canada