Sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Geometric Design

The SIAM Activity Group on Geometric Design is concerned with the mathematical and computational issues that arise in generating and processing geometric information for various engineering applications, such as mechanical design, process planning, and manufacturing. The scope of the group’s activities encompasses a wide spectrum of scientific, technological, and other skills, ranging from rigorous mathematics to the subjective aesthetics of shape.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss the mathematical and computational problems associated with the application of geometry to current problems of design, manufacturing, and the representation and analysis of physical phenomena.

The conference will be of interest to computer scientists, engineers, and mathematicians from academia, government, and industry, as well as anyone interested in applying computational and mathematical methods to problems and applications of a geometrical nature.

The themes of the conference include, but are not limited to:

Organizer: David L. Marcum, Mississippi State University, USA

This one-day short course will be held on Sunday, November 4, 2001, immediately preceding the conference at the same location.

Rida Farouki (Co-chair), University of California, Davis, USA
Miriam Lucian (Co-chair), The Boeing Company, USA
Thomas Banchoff, Brown University, USA
Michel Bercovier, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Hyeong In Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
Herbert Edelsbrunner, Duke University, USA
David Field, General Motors Research Labs, USA
Joel Hass, University of California, Davis, USA
Michael McCarthy, University of California, Irvine, USA
Helmut Pottmann, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Peter Schröder, California Institute of Technology, USA
Tom Sederberg, Brigham Young University, USA
Alessandra Sestini, University of Florence, Italy
Tim Strotman, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, USA
Wenping Wang, University of Hong Kong, China
Hans Wolters, Hewlett Packard Company, USA

A minisymposium is a two-hour session consisting of four presentations on a well-focused topic. A number of minisymposia have been solicited by the conference Organizing Committee to supplement the conference themes. The Organizing Committee also encourages proposals for minisymposia in areas related to the conference themes.

Prospective minisymposium organizers are asked to submit a proposal consisting of a title, a description (not to exceed 100 words), and a list of speakers and titles of their presentations using the Conference Management System available at:

Minisymposium organizers should consider the following recommendations when designing their sessions.

• Organizers are encouraged to include women and members of underrepresented minorities as speakers whenever appropriate.
• Speakers should be selected primarily for their current contributions to the topic area and should be as representative of researchers in the area as is practicable. In particular, SIAM discourages minisymposia in which most of the speakers come from one organization, OR if all co-authors on the papers being presented in the minisymposium are from the same organization.
• The first speaker should provide an overview of the topic area, put the area in current perspective, and suggest new avenues for continued research and application.

The Organizing Committee will review contributed minisymposia and reserve the right to limit the number of minisymposia to maintain an acceptable level of parallelism in the meeting sessions.

Deadline for submission of minisymposium proposals is: April 16, 2001.

A poster presentation consists of the use of visual aides on a 4' x 6' poster board presented in a two-hour informal session that allows presenters to discuss their research with attendees.

Posters should state the subjects, methods, present data, and conclusions.

A poster board will be provided at the conference for each poster presenter.

To know more about a poster presentation, please visit:

The Organizing Committee reserves the right to limit the number of contributed presentations a single speaker may present.

Deadline for submission of contributed abstracts for a lecture or poster: May 15, 2001.

Every presenter of a contributed or poster presentation must submit a 75-word abstract, which must be sent electronically using the Conference Management System available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/gd01/part.htm. The 75-word abstract will appear in the final program.