Welcome to 9th International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, organised by SMAI-SIGMA.

The conference will take place from June 28 to July 4, 2018 at the Palais des Congrès in Arcachon, France.

Registration and accomodation are open.

Overall theme: “Representation and Approximation of Curves and Surfaces and Applications” with subtopics (in alphabetical order):

• Approximation theory
• Computer-aided geometric design
• Computer graphics and visualisation
• Computational geometry and topology
• Geometry processing
• Image and signal processing
• Interpolation and smoothing
• Mesh generation, finite elements and splines
• Scattered data processing and learning theory
• Sparse and high-dimensional approximation
• Subdivision, wavelets and multi-resolution methods

as well as related applications in manufacturing, mechanics, solid modelling, terrain modelling, oceanography, geosciences, life sciences ...

• Alexander Bobenko (Technische Universität Berlin)
• Emmanuel Candes (Stanford University)
• Maria Charina (Universität Wien)
• Elaine Cohen (University of Utah at Salt Lake City)
• Philipp Grohs (Universität Wien)
• Frances Kuo (University of South Wales)
• Mauro Maggioni (Johns Hopkins University)
• Jorg Peters (University of Florida at Gainsville)
• Amit Singer (Princeton University)
• Max Wardetzky (Georg-August Universität Goettingen)

• Constrained approximation (Dany Leviatan, Tel Aviv University)
• High dimensional approximation (Vladimir Temlyakov, University of South Carolina)
• Applications in energy industry (Christian Gout,  INSA Rouen)
• Isogeometric Analysis (Giancarlo Sangalli, Universita di Pavia ; Mario Kapl, RICAM)
• Mathematical aspects of 3D printing  (Georg Muntingh, Sintef Oslo)
• Advances in radial basis approximation (Thomas Hangelbroek, University of Hawaii at Manoa)
• Topological data analysis and learning (Steve Oudot, INRIA Saclay)
• Shape processing (Martin Rumpf, Universität Bonn)
• PDE and variational methods for geometry processing for images (Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb, Cambridge University ; Simon Masnou, Université de Lyon)
• Advances on Prony’s methods (Stefan Kunis, Universität Osnabrueck)

We welcome contributions as oral presentations and posters. See the submission page for more details, and the important dates page for submission deadlines. 

Three best poster awards with prizes will be awarded. 

• Jean-Francois Aujol (Université de Bordeaux)
• Jean-Daniel Boissonat (INRIA Sophia)
• Albert Cohen (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
• Tom Lyche (University of Oslo)
• Marie-Laurence Mazure (Université Grenoble Alpes)
• Quentin Mérigot (Université Paris Saclay)
• Gabriel Peyré (CNRS and Ecole Normale Supérieure)
• Larry Schumaker (Vanderbilt University)

• Peter Binev (Univeristy of South Carolina )
• Annalisa Buffa (EPFL)
• Ron Devore (Texas A&M University)
• Oleg Davydov (Universität Giessen)
• Jalal Fadili (ENSI Caen)
• Remi Gribonval (INRIA Rennes)
• Gitta Kutyniok (Technische Universität Berlin)
• Dany Leviatan (Tel Aviv University)
• David Levin (Tel Aviv University)
• Carla Manni (Universita di Roma)
• Edouard Oudet (Université Grenoble Alpes)
• Konrad Polthier (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Helmut Pottmann (Technische Universität Wien)
• Ulrich Reif (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
• Tomas Sauer (Universität Passau)
• Grady Wright (Boise State University)
• Michael Floater (University of Oslo)

The conference is organised by SMAI-SIGMA an activity group of Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) in collaboration with the following institutions:

• Paris 2014
• Avignon 2010
• Avignon 2006
• St Malo 2002
• St Malo 1999
• Chamonix 1996
• Chamonix 1993
• Chamonix 1990