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*   SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing      *
*   Phoenix, Arizona                                       *
*   October 31 - November 3, 2005                          *
*   (Short Courses: October 30)                            *
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The ninth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing 
will be held in Phoenix, AZ, October 30 - November 3, 2005. 
The conference is a biennial event that has gone under 
several names (Geometric Modeling and Robotics, Applied 
Geometry, Geometric Design, etc.) since its inception in 
1983. The conference website is 
http://www.siam.org/meetings/GD05.
To see the websites for some of the recent conferences in 
this series, please go to 
http://www.siam.org/meetings/ARCHIVES/Index.htm#GD.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together 
researchers from academia, industry, and government to 
discuss the mathematical and computational problems 
associated with the application of geometry to current 
problems of design, manufacturing, and the representation 
and analysis of physical phenomena. The conference will be 
of interest to computer scientists, engineers, and 
mathematicians from academia, government, and industry, as 
well as anyone interested in applying computational and 
mathematical methods to problems and applications of a 
geometrical nature, such as applications in medicine, 
biology, architecture, art, and other areas.

At this time you are invited to contribute a lecture or a
poster at the conference. You may also want to consider 
organizing a minisymposium on a topic of current interest.
Below are some highlights of the conference, which include
important deadlines.

Invited Plenary Speakers
1) Rick Beatson, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
   - RBF interpolation to function, derivative and integral 
     data
2) Siu-Wing Cheng, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology
   - Volume and surface meshing
3) Michael Floater, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
   - Curve and surface parameterization
4) Cindy Grimm, Washington Univ.
   - Surface modeling and parameterization using manifolds
5) Hugues Hoppe, Microsoft Research
   - Geometry clipmaps for terrain rendering and synthesis
6) Tom Peters, Univ. of Connecticut
   - Computational Topology and CAGD Approximation
7) Ulrich Reif, Univ. Darmstadt, Germany
8) Jonathan Shewchuk, Berkeley
9) Jeff Stevens, General Motors

Deadlines
May 2, 2005   - submission of minisymposium proposals
May 2, 2005   - submission of abstracts of contributed 
                and minisymposium talks
July 2005     - acceptance notification 

Organizing Committee
1) George Allen (UGS)
2) Charles Chui (Univ. Missouri - St. Louis)
3) Tamal Dey (Ohio State Univ.)
4) Tor Dokken (SINTEF)
5) Gerald Farin (Arizona State Univ.)
6) David Field (General Motors Co.), CO-CHAIR
7) Dan Gonsor (The Boeing Co.)
8) Leif Kobbelt (RWTH Aachen Univ.), 
9) Charles Loop (Microsoft Research)
10) Tom Lyche (Univ. of Oslo)
11) Mike Neamtu (Vanderbilt Univ.), CO-CHAIR
12) Jorg Peters (Univ. of Florida, Gainesville)
13) Konrad Polthier (Technical Univ. of Berlin)
14) Helmut Pottmann (Technical University of Vienna),
15) Alla Sheffer (Univ. of British Columbia)
16) Daniel Zwick (Wilcox Associates, Inc.)

Additional Activities
Two Short Courses will be held a day before
the conference. A workshop organized by Gerald Farin
is also in a planning stage.

Conference Proceedings
The organizers plan to edit a refereed proceedings after 
the conference. We are currently negotiating the details 
with possible publishers.

Conference Themes
Algebraic and Differential Geometry
Computational Geometry
Computational Topology
Computer-aided Design and Manufacturing
Computer Vision and Image-based Modeling
Computer Graphics and Visualization
Curve and Surface Design
Kinematics and Robotics
Mesh Generation and Processing
Multi-resolution Methods
Reverse Engineering
Scattered Data Modeling and Splines
Applications in Engineering, Medicine, Biology,
Architecture, Art, and other Areas