SPM 2012 - Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling

The Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling 2012 (SPM'12), in cooperation with SIAM and in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH (pending), will be held in October 29-31, 2012, at the University of Burgundy (la Bourgogne), Dijon, France.
The focus of the conference is on the mathematical and computational issues that arise in generating, analyzing, and processing geometric information in applications such as: mechanical design, process planning, manufacturing, bio-medical, games, animation, geology, and virtual reality.
The proceedings of SPM2012, including full papers and short papers, will be published as a special issue of the Computer Aided Design, the prestigious journal from Elsevier (5-year impact factor= 2.37). Technical papers should present previously unpublished, original results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. All papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee.
The symposium is organized with the support of the (SMA) Solid Modeling Association. The SMA will award the 2012 Pierre Bezier Prize, during the symposium, for contributions to solid, shape and physical modeling.
We invite submissions related, but not limited to, the following topics:
Applied computational geometry
Biomedical applications of shape and solid modeling
Blend, sweep, offset, Minkowski, and other operations
Constraint modeling & satisfaction
Curve, surface, and manifold modeling
Data fitting and approximation
Design, analysis, simulation, automation and optimization
Dimensioning & tolerancing
Fidelity of physical models and representations
Function and assembly modeling
Geometric and topological representations of shapes
Geometric interrogation and reasoning
Geometry compression
Geo-scientific applications
Manufacturing and assembly planning
Mesh processing
Model validation and repair
Multi-resolution techniques
Parametric and feature-based models and representations
Physically-based concepts for shape modeling
Product data standards, exchange, and interoperability
Reverse engineering, model reconstruction from samples
Robustness and validity of geometric computations
Shape analysis & understanding
User interaction and haptic interfaces
Virtual, collaborative and distributed environments
Important Dates
March 25, 2012
: Abstracts Due
April 2, 2012
: Full Paper Submissions Due
mid-May, 2012
: First Review Notification
June 21, 2012
: Revised Papers Due
mid-July, 2012
: Second Review Notification
July 27, 2012
: Final Versions Due
Program Co-Chairs:
Stefanie Hahmann, University of Grenoble, France
Sara McMains, UC Berkeley, USA
Conference Co-Chairs:
Dominique Michelucci, University of Burgundy, France
Sebti Foufou, Qatar University, Qatar & University of Burgundy, France