ORGANIZER:

Dr. Wenping Wang
Tel: (852) 2859 7074		Fax: (852) 2559 8447
E-mail: wenping@csis.hku.hk	URL: http://www.csis.hku.hk/~wenping/
Office: CYC421, HKU Main Campus, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Mailing: Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
	 The University of Hong Kong
	 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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           FINAL PROGRAM OF HKU WORKSHOP ON GEOMETRIC COMPUTING
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		HKU Workshop on Geometric Computing
                   http://www.csis.hku.hk/gc2001/

                        June 27-29, 2001 

		Theater C, Chow Yei Ching Building
	      Main Campus, The University of Hong Kong
			Hong Kong, China

                	Organized by 
		Department of Computer Science 
		     & Information Systems
		   The University of Hong Kong

	  In Celebration of the 90th Anniversary of HKU
	     and the Faculty of Engineering of HKU



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DAY ONE: June 27, 2001, Wednesday

9:00 -- 12:30 (Coffee break: 10:30-11:00)

     Invited Lecture: 

	Exact geometric computation: survey and tutorial 

	 	by Chee Yap 
                Courant Institute, New York University, USA


12:30 -- 14:00

	LUNCH BREAK
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14:00 -- 17:30 (Coffee break: 15:30-16:00)

     Invited Lecture:

	Wu-Ritt's characteristic method and applications to CAGD 

		by Xiaoshan Gao
 		Institute of Systems Science, Academia Sinica 


17:30 -- 18:00

     Research Talk: 

	An improved algorithm to compute the mu-basis of a 
	rational curve

 		by Falai Chen	
		University of Science and Technology of China 


18:15 -- 19:30

	DINNER
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End of Day One
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DAY TWO: June 28,  2001, Thursday

9:00 -- 12:30 (Coffee break: 10:30-11:00)

    Invited Lecture: 

	Multi-sided Bezier patches 

	 	by Ron Goldman
                Rice University, USA


12:30 -- 14:00

	LUNCH BREAK
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14:00 -- 17:30 (Coffee break: 15:30-16:00)

     Invited Lecture:

	Computational line geometry

		by Helmut Pottmann
		Institute of Geometry 
		Technical University Wien, Austria


17:30 -- 18:00

     Research Talk: 

	Computing surface areas of CSG objects with 
	low discrepancy sequences

 		by Wenping Wang
		The University of Hong Kong


18:15 -- 19:30

	DINNER
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End of Day Two
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DAY THREE: June 29,  2001, Friday

9:00 -- 9:30 

     Research Talk:
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	Minkowski sum of two simple surfaces generated by
 	slope-monotone closed curves

	 	by Myung-Soo Kim 
 		Seoul National University

9:30 -- 10:00

     Research Talk:
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	Constrained scaling of trimmed NURBS surfaces

		by Caiming Zhang
 		Shandong University, China 	


9:30 -- 10:00

     Research Talk:
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	On subdivision surface reconstruction from sample data

 		by Weiyin Ma
 		City University of Hong Kong 

10:30-11:00

	COFFEE  BREAK
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11:00 -- 11:30 

     Research Talk:
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	Reconstruction of 3D object from wireframe

 		by Jiaye Wang
 		Shandong University, China


11:30 -- 12:00

     Research Talk:
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	Parallel Dixon matrix by bracket
 
		by Eng Wee Chionh
 		National University of Singapore


12:00 -- 12:30

     Research Talk:
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	Geometric constraint solving: methods and applications

 		by Xiaoshan Gao
 		Institute of Systems Science, Academia Sinica 
		

12:30  -- 14:00

	LUNCH
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END of Day Three 
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END of Workshop Program
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