8IMR: call for papers

Tue Apr 13 08:27:19 PDT 1999

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  **             Announcement and Call for Papers              **
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  **           8TH INTERNATIONAL MESHING ROUNDTABLE            **
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  **                  October 10-13, 1999                      **
  **            South Lake Tahoe, California, USA              **
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  **           http://www.cfd.sandia.gov/8imr.html             **
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  **         Sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories         **
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Join us at the 8th International Meshing Roundtable to be held in
beautiful South Lake Tahoe, California, on October 10-13th, 1999. 

The goal of the 8th International Meshing Roundtable is to bring
together researchers and developers from industry, academia, and
government labs in a stimulating, open environment for the exchange of
technical information related to meshing and general pre-processing
techniques.  Previous Roundtables (Chicago, Illinois, 1992, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, 1993-1995, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1996, Salt Lake City,
Utah, 1997, and Dearborn, Michigan, 1998) have enjoyed significant
participation from each of these groups from a large number of
countries. 

This year's poster session will be sponsored by Major Shared Resource
Centers (MSRC) established by the Department of Defense (DOD) High
Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO) and the International
Society of Grid Generation (ISGG, http://www.erc.msstate.edu/isgg/) to
encourage more participants from the grid generation research and user
community. 

EVENTS
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Events at this year's roundtable will include:
  * Technical presentations from contributed papers
  * Keynote and invited speakers
  * Poster session with "Best Poster" and "Meshing Maestro" awards
    on top of Heavenly Mountain overlooking Lake Tahoe.
  * Birds-of-a-feather session which will provide a discussion forum for
    small groups of researchers working in similar fields
  * Panel discussion
  * Dinner banquet and cruise aboard a paddlewheel boat cruising Lake
    Tahoe

In addition, this year's conference will include a new feature:
  * Pre-conference Short Course on Sunday, October 10

More information on the Roundtable, as it becomes available, can be
found on the International Meshing Roundtable WWW page at:

  http://www.cfd.sandia.gov/8imr.html

IMPORTANT DATES
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  June 13, 1999       Full paper due
  August 1, 1999      Acceptance/rejection notices sent to authors
  August 22, 1999     Final, camera-ready papers due
  September 10, 1999  Early conference registration due and
                      hotel reservation due for special discount rates
  Oct. 10-13, 1999    8th International Meshing Roundtable
                      South Lake Tahoe, California, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Papers are being sought that present original results on meshing, grid
generation, and other pre-processing techniques. In addition to our core
topics in meshing related algorithms, we are also interested in
obtaining technical papers that relate analysis and application solution
to the mesh generation process. Potential topics include but are not
limited to:

 * Volume and surface mesh generation
 * Structured grid generation
 * CAD Interface for meshing and grid generation
 * Hybrid meshing
 * Anisotropic mesh generation
 * Mesh smoothing and optimization
 * Mesh quality control
 * Adaptive mesh refinement
 * Geometry decomposition and clean-up
 * Geometry simplification for meshing
 * Industrial robustness and complex geometries
 * Large mesh manipulation
 * Theoretical or novel ideas with practical potential
 * Technical presentations from industrial researchers
 * Parallel algorithms
 * Mesh visualization
 * Parameterized model construction

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
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Papers should contain significant technical content to be accepted. No
paper will be accepted for publication without an accompanying
presentation at the conference.  Accepted papers will be published in
the proceedings and may also be available on the website pending author
approval. 

Papers should be 6-12 pages in length (9 point, two columns) and
received by June 13, 1999. Paper submissions will be accepted in
Microsoft Word, postscript or PDF, by electronic submission only. A
template for paper submission will be provided at the 8IMR website.
Papers can be transferred by anonymous ftp to endo.sandia.gov (place in
directory pub/incoming/tjtautg/imr99/) or can be emailed to
tjtautg at sandia.gov. 

Files transferred via anonymous ftp should be named as follows to avoid
name collisions on the ftp site: names should start with the primary
author's initials, followed by a hyphen, followed by the last four
digits of the author's phone number.  Immediately after placing a paper
on the ftp site, the author should send email to Tim Tautges
(tjtautg at sandia.gov) with the paper title and file name.

  Timothy Tautges, Paper Submission
  Sandia National Laboratories (telecommuting from UW-Madison)
  1500 Johnson Drive
  Madison, WI 53706
  Phone: (608) 263-8485
  Fax: (608) 263-4499
  E-Mail: tjtautg at sandia.gov

PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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The conference proceedings will be published by Sandia National
Laboratories and distributed at the Roundtable. In addition, papers of
exceptionally high quality will be published in a special issue of a
widely-circulated journal. 

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
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A detailed registration packet and registration form will be mailed and
is also being made available on the International Meshing Roundtable WWW
page at http://www.cfd.sandia.gov/8imr.html. 

Registration fee:
  $285 for full registration prior to September 11th
  $325 after September 11th
  $80  for students (doesn't include the banquet)

The registration fee can be paid by credit card, check or money order.
Checks should be made payable to "Sandia National Laboratories," and
money orders should be sent to the conference coordinator. 

CONFERENCE LOCATION AND HOTEL RESERVATIONS
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The site of this year's Roundtable is the city of South Lake Tahoe,
California. Sitting in a high alpine valley between the peaks of the
Sierra Nevadas, Tahoe is considered one of the most beautiful lakes in
the world.

The Roundtable will be held at the Embassy Suites Resort in South Lake
Tahoe.  Regularly scheduled air service is offered at the Reno Tahoe
International Airport. Shuttle service is available from Reno Tahoe
International Airport to the Embassy Suites Resort. 

  Embassy Suites Resort
  4130 Lake Tahoe Boulevard
  South Lake Tahoe, California 96150
  (916) 544-5400 (Reservation Desk)
  (916) 544-7643 (Fax Number)
  http://www.embassytahoe.com/home.htm

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Embassy Suites Resort at a
special conference rate of $115 Sunday-Thursday and $149 Friday/Saturday
plus state and local taxes.  To ensure obtaining this rate, participants
should make their own reservations, or make reservation by the
conference registration sheet, before September 10th, 1999. 

You must mention that you will be attending the "8TH INTERNATIONAL
MESHING ROUNDTABLE" sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories to receive
our special rate for the nights of October 10-13th. 

STEERING COMMITTEE
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The International Meshing Roundtable steering committee consists of
representatives from government research labs, academia, and industry.
This year's committee is:

Kenji Shimada, Chairman
Carnegie Mellon University
Phone: (412) 268-3614
Fax: (412) 268-3348
E-Mail: shimada at cmu.edu

Tammy Eldred, Conference Coordinator
Sandia National Laboratories
Phone: (505) 844-0180
Fax: (505) 844-8251
E-Mail: tjeldre at sandia.gov

Timothy Tautges, Paper Submission
Sandia National Laboratories (telecommuting from UW-Madison)
Phone: (608) 263-8485
Fax: (608) 263-4499
E-Mail: tjtautg at sandia.gov

Steve Owen, Paper Submission
Ansys, Inc.
Phone: (724) 514-3093
Fax: (724) 514-3114
E-Mail: steve.owen at ansys.com

Bharat Soni, Poster Session
Sr.CFD Lead ARL_ASC PET_MSRC
NSF Engineering Research Center
Mississippi State University
Phone: (601) 325-8278 or 325-2647
Fax: (601) 325-7692
E-Mail: bsoni at erc.msstate.edu

Ed D'Azevedo
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Phone: (423) 576-7925
Fax: (423) 574-0680
E-Mail: efdazedo at alcor.epm.ornl.gov

David Hardin
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Phone: (925) 423-2514
Fax: (925) 423-9208
E-Mail: hardin3 at llnl.gov

Glen McCann
SDRC
Phone: (513) 576-2850
Fax: (513) 576-2850
E-Mail: glen.mccann at sdrd.com

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