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   Workshop on Robust Shape Operations
        26 - 28, September, 2007
        INRIA Sophia Antipolis

   http://www-sop.inria.fr/geometrica/events/WRSO/

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*Registration* deadline : September 2nd, 2007

A prelimininay list of talks is available on the web site.
Invited speakers
   Fabrice Rouillier, INRIA Rocquencourt
   Chee Yap, New York University

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*Accommodation*

A list of hotels can be found on the web site.
Early booking is recommended.

Hotel "Le Collier" is kindly holding a set of rooms until August, 25th,
please mention that you are attending the INRIA WRSO workshop when booking
your room.

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Conventional geometric algorithms found in geometric modeling systems work
with fixed precision arithmetic and numerical approximation schemes for
computing intersections of curves and surfaces. That is why their
functionality is impaired by rounding and approximation errors in (nearly)
degenerate situations which frequently occur in practice.

In contrast, this workshop emphasizes on exactness or certified
approximations, focusing on techniques guaranteeing correctness, which are
based on certified numerics and certified topology; the attention is
devoted to both algebraic objects and approximations for more general
objects.

The workshop areas contain, but are not restricted to, the following themes:
- Algorithms and data structures for shape operations -
in particular arrangements of curves and surfaces, meshing and boolean
operations for curved solids, optimization with quadratic constraints,...
- Algebraic methods and certified numerics -
in particular, algebraic numbers and dedicated solvers for a restricted
class of polynomial systems that are encountered in geometric predicates
and constructions.

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