==================================================== 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/ ==================================================== ------------------------------------------- Advance registration deadline: May 19, 2006 ------------------------------------------- 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 ------------- - 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- For further questions, please contact SMI2006 Conference Secretariat: smi06(a)vis.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp ---------------------------------------------------------------------