[General] SIACG 2011: Invited talk and tutorials announcement

*-- Invited talk and tutorials announcement --** V Ibero-American Symposium in Computer Graphics (SIACG 2011) * http://ise.ualg.pt/SIACG2011 <http://ise.ualg.pt/siacg2011> Follow us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Siacg-2011/174697625893185?create… Paper Submission deadline: January 30, 2011 1 - 3 June 2011 Universidade do Algarve Faro, Portugal Dear Colleague, *INVITED TALKS* We are very proud to announce that *Professor Dieter W. Fellner, *is doing an *invited talk* at SIACG2011. Dieter W. Fellner is professor of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, Germany, and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD) at the same location. Previously he has held academic positions at the Graz University of Technology, Austria, the University of Technology in Braunschweig, Germany, the University of Bonn, Germany, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and the University of Denver, Colorado. He is still affiliated with the Graz University of Technology where he chairs the Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization he founded in 2005. *TUTORIALS* Two tutorials will be available to the SIACG 2011 participants: *Introduction to GPU Programming, by Timothy Lanfear, NVIDIA* CUDA is a general purpose architecture for writing highly parallel applications. It provides several key abstractions — a hierarchy of thread blocks, shared memory, and barrier synchronization — for scalable high-performance parallel computing. Scientists throughout industry and academia use CUDA to achieve dramatic speedups on production and research codes. The CUDA architecture supports many languages, programming environments, and libraries including C/C++, Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, Python, Matlab, FFT, LAPACK, etc. The course will teach the basics of CUDA C programming, give an overview of the various tools, and introduce some of the considerations necessary for obtaining high performance from GPU applications. *Geographic Information Systems, by José Rodrigues and Sara Madeira, University of Algarve* There is now an increasing demand and use of geographic information with diverse purposes and application domains. Scientific areas as diverse as the Geosciences, Engineering, Economics, Sociology and Health, among others, increasingly use geographic information technologies as a tool for problems modeling, analysis and simulation scenarios. The fact that the vast majority of the information is georeferenceable, the spatial elements constitute an integrator allowing for correlation of different variables (before hardly comparable) and technological change are some of the aspects that allow us to understand this interest in science geographic information in general, and the implementation and exploitation of geographic information systems in particular. The implementation and operation of these systems are carried out using specific software, equipped with functionalities for editing, data analysis and map production. The main purpose of this tutorial is to show the key stages and operations in the creation and use of thematic geographic information systems. The presentation will include a strong practical component in the computer lab to operate several examples involving vectorial and raster data. Best regards, Mauro Figueiredo Organizing Committee Chair -- SIACG 2011 Universidade Algarve Portugal email: SIACG2011 at ualg dot pt Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Siacg-2011/174697625893185?create…