Seventh International Conference on
Curves and Surfaces
organized by SMAI-AFA

Avignon - FRANCE
June 24-30, 2010

Registration and hotel reservations are opened (see How To). ATTENTION : Registration fees will increase after april 1.


The conference will take place at the conference center in Avignon called "Palais des Papes"

                                   from Thursday 24 June to Wednesday 30 June, 2010

The entry of the Conference Center is near the main entry of the Popes' Palace (50 meters on the left).
See http://www.palais-des-papes.com/anglais/cicsalles.html

The conference is organized by SMAI-AFA (Association Française d'Approximation), an activity group of Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) in collaboration with the following institutions:

-  Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble INP,
-  Arts et Métiers ParisTech,
-  INRIA,

Conference topics

Overall theme "Representation and Approximation of Curves and Surfaces and Applications"

with subtopics (in alphabetical order)
  • Computer-aided geometric design
  • Computer graphics and visualisation 
  • Computational Geometry and Topology
  • Geometry processing
  • Image and signal processing
  • Interpolation and smoothing
  • Mesh generation, finite elements and splines
  • Scattered data processing and learning theory
  • Sparse and high-dimensional approximation
  • Subdivision, wavelets and multi-resolution methods

    as well as related applications in manufacturing, mechanics, solid modelling,  terrain modelling, oceanography, geosciences, ...
 

Important dates

  • January 15, 2010 : Deadline for abstract submission. -> Deadline postponed to January 22, 2010
  • February 28, 2010 : E-mail notification of accepted abstracts.
  • April 1st , 2010 :
      - Deadline for conference registration and payment for talk/poster participants.
      - Deadline for hotel reservation.
  • October 31, 2010 : Deadline for proceedings submission.
 

Invited speakers

Mini-symposia

  • Open Source Software for Curves and Surfaces
    Organizer : Pierre Alliez (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France)
  • Geometry and Topology of Data
    Organizer : Frédéric Chazal  (INRIA Saclay, France)
  • Approximation problems in image processing 
    Organizer : Shai Dekel (GE Healthcare, Israel)
  • Discrete differential geometry 
    Organizer : Mathieu Desbrun  (Caltech, Pasadena, USA)
  • Non-linear subdivision schemes 
    Organizer : Kai Hormann (Clausthal univ. of technology, Germany)
  • Sparse Approximation
    Organizer : Gitta Kutyniok  (Osnabrueck University, Germany)
  • Architectural Geometry 
    Organizer : Johannes Wallner (TU Graz, Austria)
  • Radial Basis Functions, Kernel-based and Meshfree Methods
    Organizer : Holger Wendland  (Univ. of Sussex, UK)

Organizers


with the collaboration of

Scientific committee

Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's wellknown book series Lecture Notes in Computer Science . The deadline for proceedings submission is october 31, 2010. More information on the submission process will be posted later on.

Registration fees

SMAI members
Payment before April 1st, 2010 		All Others
Payment before April 1st, 2010 		Payment after April 1st, 2010
Participant (full fare) 360 Euros 400 Euros 520 Euros
Academic (university staff) 180 Euros 200 Euros 260 Euros
Student 85 Euros 100 Euros 200 Euros
Retired person 85 Euros 100 Euros 200 Euros
Organizer (*) free
(*) Invited speakers and mini-symposium organizers.

Excursion - Cruise: June 27, 2010

Excursion on the river Rhone, Avignon – Arles on the boat Miréio (without lunch ).
11h00 : embark, Allées de l’Oulle, Avignon
11h30 : departure.
14h15/16h00 : free call at Arles.
18h45 : arrival in Avignon.
Individual rates : 29€
Payment : the fees will be paid upon registration at the congress
More information : http://www.mireio.net/

Interesting combinations with other events

For overseas travelers, it might be interesting to note other meetings: Thus it is possible to combine these events in one trip!