IMA International Conference on The Mathematics of Surfaces XI

5-7 September 2005    University of Loughborough, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

Computer-based methods for the construction, representation, and
manipulation of complicated surfaces have led to a wide interest in, and
need for, surface mathematics. Many applications now require the use of
surface descriptions, especially in such fields as computer aided design
and manufacturing, computer vision, and inspection of manufactured parts.
The description of surfaces is also of interest in geographic information
systems, multimedia, and many other areas of science and medicine. This
diversity and the wide range of applicability of the subject have already
enabled the IMA to hold ten very successful conferences on the
mathematics of surfaces. The eleventh such conference has now been
scheduled. Several international authorities will be presenting invited
papers, and contributed papers are now called for. These will be refereed
by an international programme committee.

Three types of papers are sought:

·       Research papers presenting new developments in the
representation, manipulation, approximation, design and application of
surfaces, with an emphasis on computational methods and their underlying
mathematical principles.

·       Survey papers describing the state of the art of an aspect of the
mathematics of surfaces.
·       Papers covering practical applications of surface mathematics
which could indicate directions for the research community.

This combination of topics will make the conference of interest to a wide
audience of mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and many
others who are already developing or using computer-based descriptions of
surfaces or who wish to become acquainted with the underlying ideas and
potential applications of such methods. A key feature will be the
interplay of ideas between the theoreticians in the subject and the users
of the techniques. It is hoped that

the conference will stimulate research ideas from users and developers of
surface modelling systems by presentations of novel problems that may
require new theoretical solutions.

The Invited Speakers are:

      Florian Albat (Tebis Technische Informationssysteme AG)

      Gershon Elber (Technion)

      Rida Farouki (University of California Davis)

      Adi Levin (Cadent Ltd)

      Leif Kobbelt (RWTH Aachen)

      Alyn Rockwood (Colorado School of Mines)

      Tamas Varady (Raindrop Geomagic Inc)



Contributed papers are invited in any of the categories outlined above.
Full papers will be considered and should be sent by email to Prof. Ralph
Martin, Cardiff University: ralph@cs.cf.ac.uk by 21 January 2005. 
Authors must prepare and submit their papers using LaTeX2e as the
proceedings will be produced directly from LaTeX source. Appropriate
guidance on preparation of the paper can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, including the necessary
style files and an example paper.  The proceedings will be available at
the conference; we expect that they will be published by Springer Verlag
in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series on behalf of the IMA.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 25 March 2005, and revised
papers will be due on 20 April 2005. Papers received after this date or
not in the correct LaTeX2e form will not be included in the proceedings.

Suggestions for poster sessions and software demonstrations are also
welcomed; the same date applies.

Papers will be refereed by an International Programme Committee:

      Bob Cripps (University of Birmingham)

      Gerald Farin (Arizona State University)

      Peter Giblin (University of Liverpool)

      Ron Goldman (Rice University)

      Tim Goodman (University of Dundee)

      Hans Hagen (University of Kaiserlautern)

      Edwin Hancock (University of York)

      Shimin Hu (Tsinghua University)

      Bert Jüttler (Johannes Kepler University)
      Myung-Soo Kim (Seoul National University)

      Tom Lyche (University of Oslo)

      Nick Patrikalakis (MIT)

      Jorg Peters (University of Florida)

      Hong QinState (University of New York)

      Martin Rumpf (University of Duisberg)

      Georg Umlauf (University of Kaiserslautern)

      Wenping Wang (Hong Kong University)

      Joe Warren (Rice University)

      Mike Wilson (University of Leeds)

      Franz-Erich Wolter (University of Hannover)

      Guoliang Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Enquiries regarding possible contributions should be addressed to one of
the members of the Organising Committee:

  Dr. Helmut Bez University of Loughborough, Email: H.E.Bez@lboro.ac.uk

  Prof. R. Martin Cardiff University, Email: ralph@cs.cf.ac.uk

  Dr. M. Sabin Numerical Geometry Ltd, Email:
malcolm@geometry.demon.co.uk

All other enquiries concerning conference arrangements should be sent to:

Lucy Nye (email: Lucy.Nye@ima.org.uk) The Institute of Mathematics and
its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street,
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England SS1 1EF.  www.ima.org.uk