CGAL Day at the 10th anniversary of the LIAMA, Beijing
(local copy of the program together with slides and a picture)

19th January, 2007, Beijing, China

This one day event on CGAL is part of the 10th anniversary event of the LIAMA in Beijing. The presentations of the morning sessions give an overview on the available technology, and show how the project is organized. The afternoon sessions give more details on some of the key CGAL packages. The event closes with a panel discussion on various aspects of technology transfer related to CGAL.

You can register here for this event. For getting more information, please contact andreas.fabri@geometryfactory.com or sylvain.pion@sophia.inria.fr.

The goal of the CGAL Project is to provide easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms to users in industry and academia in the form of a C++ library. It is developed at research institutes and companies, such as INRIA, Max-Planck Institute, ETH Zurich, Tel-Aviv University, GeometryFactory, and others.

CGAL is used in various areas with a need for geometric computation, such as computer graphics, scientific visualization, computer aided design and modeling, geographic information systems, molecular biology, medical imaging, robotics, and computational fluid dynamics.

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome (Sylvain Pion)

09:10 - 10:10 Overview of the CGAL Library (Andreas Fabri) (slides as PDF)

• Introduction
• Data structures and algorithms
• CGAL compared to other geometry software
• Applications using CGAL

10:10 - 10:45 Organization of the CGAL Project (Sylvain Pion) (slides as PDF)

• Consortium
• Editorial Board
• GeometryFactory
• Infrastructure: gforge and process
• Open source and commercial licenses

10:45 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 CGLAB - The Geometry Toolbox for Scilab (Andreas Fabri) (slides as PDF)

11:30 - 12:00 Questions and Answers

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 13:40 Welcome (Andreas Fabri)

13:40 - 14:30 Design Goals and Programming Paradigms (Sylvain Pion) (slides as PDF)

• Generic programming
• Exact geometric computing
• Language bindings for Python and Java

14:30 - 15:30 Triangulations and Mesh Generation (Andreas Fabri) (slides as PDF)

• Triangulations in 2D and 3D
• Mesh generation
• Applications in medical imaging and GIS

15:30 - 15:45 Break

15:45 - 16:15 Arrangements and their Applications (Sylvain Pion) (slides as PDF)

• Arrangements
• Applications in VLSI and molecular biology

16:15 - 17:15

Participants: Gerard Giraudon (INRIA), Claude Gomez (Scilab), Andreas Fabri (GeometryFactory), Sylvain Pion (CGAL), Jun-Hai Yong (Tsinghua University)

17:15 Closing