IMA:13th Conference on The Mathematics of Surfaces

Computer-based methods for the capture, construction, representation, fitting, and manipulation of complicated surfaces have led to a wide interest in, and need for, surface mathematics. Many applications require the use of surface descriptions, especially in such fields as computer aided design and manufacturing, computer graphics and computer vision. 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 twelve very successful international conferences in the Mathematics of Surfaces series. The 13th 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 capture, representation, manipulation, approximation, fitting, and design of surfaces, with an emphasis on computational methods and their underlying mathematical principles.
Research papers covering novel practical applications of surface mathematics in areas such as CAD, Computer Vision, Computer graphics, GIS, and Architecture, especially those which pose new problems for the research community.
Survey papers describing the state of the art of an aspect of the mathematics of surfaces.

This combination of topics will make the conference of interest to a wide audience of mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and others. Contributions are sought covering parametric surfaces, implicit surfaces, mesh surfaces, and other representations. A timely issue is the question of geometric algorithms which exploit the power of multi-core processors and GPUs, and papers addressing this topic would be particularly welcome. 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.

We are delighted to have as Keynote Speaker the renowned Field's Medallist:

Shing-Tung Yau

Harvard University, USA

We also have a strong line-up of other Invited Speakers.

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 the end of 23rd January 2009.

Authors must prepare and submit their papers using LaTeX2e as the proceedings will be produced directly from authors' LaTeX sources. 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.

It is hoped that the proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series on behalf of the IMA, and will be available at the conference.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 27th March 2009, and revised papers will be due by the end of 23rd April 2009. 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:

Pierre Alliez	INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Chandrajit Bajaj	University of Texas at Austin, USA
Alexander Belyaev	Heriot-Watt University, UK
Bob Cripps	University of Birmingham, UK
Gershon Elber	Technion, Israel
Gerald Farin	Arizona State University, USA
Rida Farouki	University of California, Davis, USA
Bob Fisher	University of Edinburgh, UK
Mike Floater	University of Oslo, Norway
Leila de Floriani	University of Genova, Italy
Xiao-Shan Gao	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Peter Giblin	University of Liverpool, UK
Ron Goldman	Rice University, USA
Laureano Gonzalez-Vega	University of Cantabria, Spain
Xianfang Gu	State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Hans Hagen	University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Kai Hormann	Technical University of Clausthal, Germany
Shimin Hu	Tsinghua University, China
Deok-Soo Kim	Hanyang University, Korea
Myung-Soo Kim	Seoul National University, Korea
Tom Lyche	University of Oslo, Norway
Bernard Mourrain	INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Alberto Paoluzzi	University of Rome 3, Italy
Nick Patrikalakis	MIT, USA
Xavier Pennec	INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Sonia Pérez-Díaz	University of Alcalá, Spain
Jorg Peters	University of Florida, USA
Helmut Pottmann	Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Hong Qin	State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Christophe Rabut	INSA Toulouse, France
Ulrich Reif	Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Martin Rumpf	University of Bonn, Germany
Paul Sablonniere	INSA Rennes, France
Hanan Samet	University of Maryland, USA
Will Smith	University of York, UK
Hiromasa Suzuki	University of Tokyo, Japan
Georg Umlauf	University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Luiz Velho	IMPA, Brazil
Wenping Wang	University of Hong Kong, China
Joe Warren	Rice University, USA
Mike Wilson	University of Leeds, UK
Guoliang Xu	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Enquiries:

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

Prof. R. Martin Cardiff University, Email: ralph@cs.cf.ac.uk
Dr. M. Sabin Numerical Geometry Ltd, Email: malcolm@geometry.demon.co.uk
Prof. Edwin Hancock University of York, Email: erh@cs.york.ac.uk

All other enquiries concerning conference arrangements should be sent to Amy Marsh (email: amy.marsh@ima.org.uk ) The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson St., Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England SS1 1EF.