[Fis] Workshop on Computer Aided Design

I think that a number of the
FIS list members would be
interested in the following
workshop.

best,
Michael Leyton

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 DIMACS Workshop on Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing

 Dates: October 7 - 9, 2003

 Location: DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

 Organizers:

   Deba Dutta, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, dutta@engin.umich.edu
   Ravi Janardan, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, janardan@cs.umn.edu
   Michiel Smid, Carleton Univeristy, michiel@scs.carleton.ca

Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Computational
             Geometry and Applications.

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Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) is concerned with
all aspects of the process of designing, prototyping, manufacturing,
inspecting, and maintaining complex geometric objects under
computer control. As such, there is a natural synergy between
this field and Computational Geometry (CG), which involves the design,
analysis, implementation, and testing of efficient algorithms and
data representation techniques for geometric entities such as points,
polygons, polyhedra, curves, and surfaces. On the one hand, CG can
bring about significant performance improvements in CAD/CAM, while,
on the other hand, CAD/CAM can be a rich source of interesting
new problems that provide new impetus to research in CG. Indeed,
such two-way interaction has already been witnessed in recent years
in areas such as numerically-controlled machining, casting and
injection molding, rapid prototyping and layered manufacturing,
metrology, and mechanism/linkage design, to name just a few.

The purpose of this workshop is to further promote this interaction
by bringing together researchers from both sides of the aisle to assess
the current state of work at the interface of the two fields, to
identify research needs, and to establish directions for collaborative
future work. A combination of invited talks, contributed papers,
and a panel discussion is envisioned.

Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to, geometric aspects
of manufacturing processes (from traditional machining to layered
manufacturing
to nanoscale manufacturing), process planning and control, rapid
prototyping
technologies, computational metrology and tolerancing, geometric problems
in
mechanism design, geometric constraint systems, geometric modeling related
to manufacturing, computer vision and robotics related to manufacturing,
and
geometric issues in standards development.

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Workshop Program:

Tuesday, October 7, 2003

 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration

 8:50 - 9:00 Opening remarks
                DIMACS Director and Organizers

 9:00 - 10:00 Elements of computational metrology
                Vijay Srinivasan, IBM Research, New York

10:00 - 10:30 Geometric tolerance analysis methods for
imperfect-form assemblies
Scott Pierce, M.I. Technologies, Georgia, and Georgia Tech.

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 Outstanding problems in geometric constraint solving for
CAD
                Meera Sitharaman, University of Florida

11:30 - 12:00 Immobilizing chains of hinged polygons
                Frank van der Stappen, Utrecht Univ., the Netherlands

12:00 - 12:30 On computing all immobilizing grasps of a simple
polygon with few contacts
                Jae-Sook Cheong, Utrecht Univ., the Netherlands

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

 2:00 - 3:00 Applications of randomized motion planning in intelligent
CAD
                Nancy Amato, Texas A&M Univ.

 3:00 - 3:30 Why cutting path planning is different from robotic
planning
                Sanjay Sarma, MIT

 3:30 - 4:00 Computational geometry in design and manufacturing of
free-form surfaces
                Yuan-Shin Lee, North Carolina State University

 4:00 - 4:30 Break

 4:30 - 5:00 Zigzag toolpath generation for sculptured surface finishing
                Debananda Misra, GE Global Research Center, India

 5:00 - 5:30 Multiple clothing part placement
                Victor Milenkovic, University of Miami

Wednesday, October 8, 2003

 8:15 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 10:00 Fast discretized algorithms for arrangement computations
                Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina

10:00 - 10:30 Applications of computational topology of swept volumes
                Denis Blackmore, New Jersey Institute of Technology

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 Mass properties of the union of millions of polyhedra
                Wm. Randolph Franklin, Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute

11:30 - 12:00 Stochastic geometry for bio-medical CAD
                William Regli, Drexel University

12:00 - 12:30 Algebraic and geometric approximation of waves as
                Voronoi Diagrams in time
                Tony Woo, University of Washington

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

 2:00 - 3:00 Beyond geometry: Issues in product modeling
                Ram Sriram, National Institute of Standards and Technology

 3:00 - 3:30 Theory of design
                Michael Leyton, DIMACS

 3:30 - 4:00 Geometric algorithms for Layered Manufacturing: Part I
                Michiel Smid, Carleton Univ., Canada

 4:00 - 4:30 Break

 4:30 - 5:00 Geometric algorithms for Layered Manufacturing: Part II
                Ravi Janardan, University of Minnesota

 5:00 - 5:30 Software error compensation of rapid prototyping
                Sanjay Joshi, Pennsylvania State University

 6:15 - 8:00 DIMACS Dinner

Thursday, October 9, 2003

 8:15 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 10:00 Computing shapes and their features from point samples
                Tamal Dey, The Ohio State University

10:00 - 10:30 Reconstruction of a 3D object from a single freehand sketch
                Hod Lipson, Cornell University

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 How to pick the right shape matching algorithm for your CAD
data
                William Regli, Drexel University

11:30 - 12:00 Scale-space representations and their applications to
3D matching of solid models
                Ali Shokoufandeh, Drexel University

12:00 - 12:30 Geometric containment analysis for rotational parts
                Satyandra Gupta, University of Maryland

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

 2:00 - 3:00 Computational Line Geometry and Manufacturing
                Bahram Ravani, University of California, Davis

 3:00 - 3:30 How to compute exactly and efficiently with quadric
surfaces
                Nicola Wolpert, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik,
Saarbruecken, Germany

 3:30 - 4:00 Subdivision-based representations for surface styling and
design
                Ioana Boier-Martin, IBM Research, New York

 4:00 - 4:30 Break

 4:30 - 5:00 Sparseness in the implicit equation of rational
parametric curves and surfaces
                Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

 5:00 - 5:30 Detecting degenerate object configurations with the
rational
                univariate reduction
                John Keyser, Texas A&M University

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Registration Fees:

(Pre-registration deadline: October 1, 2003)

Regular Rate
Preregister before deadline $120/day
After preregistration deadline $140/day

Reduced Rate*
Preregister before deadline $60/day
After preregistration deadline $70/day

Postdocs
Preregister before deadline $10/day
After preregistration deadline $15/day

DIMACS Postdocs $0

Non-Local Graduate & Undergraduate students
Preregister before deadline $5/day
After preregistration deadline $10/day

Local Graduate & Undergraduate students $0
(Rutgers & Princeton)

DIMACS partner institution employees** $0

DIMACS long-term visitors*** $0

Registration fee to be collected on site, cash, check, VISA/Mastercard
accepted.

Our funding agencies require that we charge a registration fee during
the course of the workshop. Registration fees include participation in
the workshop, all workshop materials, breakfast, lunch, breaks and any
scheduled social events (if applicable).

* College/University faculty and employees of nonprofit and government
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and Telcordia Technologies. Fees for employees of DIMACS affiliate
members Avaya Labs, IBM and Microsoft Research are also waived.

***DIMACS long-term visitors who are in residence at DIMACS for two or
more weeks inclusive of dates of workshop.

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Information on participation, registration, accomodations, and travel
can be found at:

http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/CompAided/

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