12th ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium
           Tsinghua University, Beijing
                   4-6th June 2007
       http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/spm2007

Since its inception in 1991, the ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling 
and Applications has been the primary venue for disseminating 
research results in the design, representation, analysis, 
visualization, and use of digital models of real or planned solid 
objects and their bounding surfaces. Actually, solid modeling entails 
not only modeling their geometric shape, but also their physical 
properties and behaviors. To emphasize this broader mission, the 
name of the Symposium was expanded to Solid and Physical Modeling 
(SPM) in 2005. SPM seeks submissions from academic, industrial and 
government researchers that present new results regarding the analysis, 
simulation, modeling, and animation of the behavior of objects; and 
the properties of objects as functions of space and time in response 
to interactions with human users, operators or the physical environment. 

Conference Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
   * Biomedical applications
   * Curves and surfaces
   * Dimensioning, tolerancing and constraints
   * Geo-scientific applications and oil exploration
   * Interaction and virtual environment
   * Mesh processing
   * Physically based modeling
   * Product data standards and interoperability
   * Reverse engineering
   * Shape analysis
   * Simulation 

Invited Speakers
 
   * Herbert Edelsbrunner, Duke University, USA         
   * Gershon Elber, Technion, Israel
   * Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University, USA

Pierre Bezier Prize

The first annual Pierre Bezier Prize will be awarded at ACM SPM 2007 
for contributions to solid, shape and physical modeling.

UGS Best Paper Award

UGS Corporation are again very generously sponsoring prizes for the 
best papers at the Symposium. Two best papers selected by a Prize 
Committee will share the prize of US$3000.

Republication in Journals

Some papers of outstanding quality that have been presented at ACM 
SPM 2007 will be selected for publication in an extended and revised 
form in journals of Computer Aided Geometric Design, Computer Aided 
Design and IEEE Transactions of Automation Science and Technology. 

 Important Dates

   * Abstracts due: November 1, 2006
   * Full papers due: November 15, 2006
   * Acceptance decisions: January 10, 2007
   * Final versions due: March 1, 2007

Information for Authors

The Proceedings will be published by ACM Press. More information about 
paper submission and format templates will be available at 
http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/spm2007/. 

Conference Organization

Honorary Conference Chairs
Chris Hoffmann, Purdue University, USA
Jia-Guang Sun, NSFC, China

Conference Co-Chairs:
Shi-Min Hu, Tsinghua University, China
Hong Qin, Stony Brook University, USA 

Program Co-Chairs:
   Bruno Levy, INRIA Loraine, France
   Dinesh Manocha, Univ. of North Carolina, USA