A prelimininay list of talks is available on the web site. Invited speakers Fabrice Rouillier, INRIA Rocquencourt Chee Yap, New York University
*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.
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.
Agnès Bessière Assistante Géométrica - Formation par la Recherche INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Dear colleagues,
There will be a conference on Finite Groups and Representations in Kaikoura (New Zealand) from 14-18 January 2008. Invited speakers include Jianbei An (Auckland), John Conway (Princeton), Vaughan Jones (Berkeley), Eamonn O'Brien (Auckland), Gerhard Röhrle (Southampton), Jan Saxl (Cambridge) and Gary Seitz (Oregon). The conference webpage is at