The conference will take place atthe conference center in Avignon called " Palais des Papes ".

                                                                 From June 29 at 9h to July 5 at 12h30,  

Sunday July 2 is free to excursion, visit the city or ...

Welcome and Registration in the Guard Room, on Wednesday, June 28, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm and Thursday, June 29, from 8:00 am to 12:00.

The entry of the Conference Center is near the main entry of the Popes' Palace (50 meters on the left). See http://www.palais-des-papes.com/anglais/cicsalles.html

Conference topics

   Representation and Approximation of Curves and Surfaces and Applications:

• Computer geometry
• Computer-aided design and manufactory
• Computer graphics and visualisation
• Curves and surfaces design
• Data mining and learning theory
• Image and signal processing
• Industrial applications
• Interpolation and smoothing
• Finite elements, Mesh generation
• Subdivision
• Wavelets and multiresolution methods
• Radial basis functions
• Reverse engineering methods, Scattered data processing
• Splines
• ...

Important dates

Invited speakers

• Claude Brezinski (Univ. Lille 1, France)
• Emmanuel Candes (California Institute of Technology, USA)
• Marie-Paule Cani (INP Grenoble, France)
• Wolfgang Dahmen (Technische Hochschule Aachen , Germany)
• Michael Floater (Univ. Of Oslo, Norway)
• Mike Neamtu (Univ. of Vanderbilt, Nashville, USA)
• Helmut Pottmann (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Vienna, Austria)
• Martin Rumpf (Univ. of Duisburg, Germany)
• Guillermo Sapiro (Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
• Tomas Sauer (Univ. of Giessen, Germany)
• Vladimir Temlyakov (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, USA)

Mini-symposia

• Scattered data and radial basis functions
  Organizer : Rick Beatson (Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch , New Zeland)
• New trends in subdivisions
  Organizer : Nira Dyn (Univ. of Tel Aviv, Israel)
• Surface modelling and applications
  Organizer : Marc Daniel (LSIS, Univ. of Méditerranée, Marseille, France)
• Mesh generation
  Organizer : Pascal Frey (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
• Surface modeling with constraints
  Organizer : Stefanie Hahmann (IMAG, Grenoble , France)
• Numerical geometry of images
  Organizer : Ron Kimmel (Computer Science Technion, Haifa, Israel)
• Learning theory
  Organizer : Dominique Picard (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
• Multiresolution in Computer Graphics
  Organizer : Peter Schröder (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA)
• Real algebraic geometry and its applications
  Organizer : Laureano Gonzalez-Vega (Univ. of Cantabria , Santander , Spain)

Organizers

• Albert Cohen (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
• Patrick Chenin (Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble , France)
• Tom Lyche (Univ. Oslo, Norway)
• Jean-Louis Merrien (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Rennes, France)
• Larry Schumaker (Univ. of Vanderbilt, Nashville, USA)

with thecollaboration of :

• Gudrun Albrecht (Univ. of Valenciennes)
• Marc Daniel (LSIS, Univ. of Méditerranée, Marseille, France)
• Pascal Frey (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
• Olivier Gibaru (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, Lille, France)
• Yvon Lafranche (Univ. of Rennes 1, France)
• Marie-Laurence Mazure (Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
• Eric Nyiri (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, Lille, France)
• Paul Sablonnière (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Rennes, France)

Scientific committee

• Jean-Daniel Boissonnat (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France)
• Martin Buhmann (Univ. of Justus-Liebig, Giessen , Germany)
• Wolfgang Dahmen (Technische Hochschule Aachen , Germany)
• Carl de Boor (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
• Ronald DeVore (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, USA)
• Nira Dyn (Univ. of Tel Aviv, Israel)
• Gerald Farin (Univ. of Arizona State, Tempe, USA)
• Rida Farouki (Univ. Of California, Davis, USA)
• Michael Floater (Univ. I Oslo, Norway)
• Mariano Gasca (Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain)
• Paul-Louis George (INRIA, Rocquencourt, France)
• Tim Goodman (Univ. of Dundee, U.K)
• Armin Iske (Univ. Of Hamburg , Germany)
• Bert Juettler (Institut für Angewandte Geometrie, Linz, Austria)
• Ron Kimmel (Computer Science Technion, Haifa, Israel)
• Leif Kobbelt (RWTH Aachen , Germany)
• Pierre-Jean Laurent (Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
• Yvon Maday (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
• Stéphane Mallat (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
• Carla Manni (Univ. Of Roma, Italy)
• Günther Nürnberger (Universität Mannheim, Germany)
• Dominique Picard (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
• Malcolm Sabin (Univ. of Cambridge, U.K)
• Guillermo Sapiro (Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
• Peter Schröder (Caltech, Pasadena, USA)
• Zuowei Shen (National Univ. of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore)
• Tamas Varady (Raindrop Geomagic Hungary, Budapest, Hungary)
• Joe Warren (Rice University, Houston, USA)
• Holger Wendland (Univ. of Göttingen, Germany)

Registration fees

(*) Invited speakers and mini-symposium organizers.

The conferenceis organized by Association Française d'Approximation (AFA), an activitygroup of Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI).