**** VRIPHYS 2012 : Call for Participation **** 9th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation December 6-7 2012 Darmstadt, Germany http://vriphys2012.inrialpes.fr/ We are pleased to announce the 9th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation – VRIPHYS 2012. The workshop is hosted by the Graduate School of Computational Engineering and the Interactive Graphics Systems Group at the Technical University of Darmstadt and Fraunhofer IGD. The workshop presents high-quality research in the domains of dynamic simulation and physical interaction in virtual reality environments, as well as work showing on-going research with promising results and new technology with applications of related focus. *** REGISTRATION Vriphys 2012 registration is open. See http://vriphys2012.inrialpes.fr/registration/ for details. *** PROGRAM The program ( http://vriphys2012.inrialpes.fr/program/ ) includes two invited talks: * Jan Peters - full professor at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS); heading the interdepartmental robot learning group. * Stéphane Cotin - scientific leader of the SHACRA team at Inria Lille. Stephane joined Inria in 2007 to hold a position of Research Director, and since 2012 he is highly involved in a new institute (IHU) based in Strasbourg and dedicated to new, hybrid, surgical techniques. A list of accepted papers is available at http://vriphys2012.inrialpes.fr/accepted-papers/ We are looking forward to seeing you in Darmstadt! Jan Bender Graduate School CE, TU Darmstadt, Germany Arjan Kuijper Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany Dieter Fellner TU Darmstadt & Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Éric Guérin INSA Lyon, France