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Elaine Cohen, Professor & Rich Riesenfeld, Professor
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As part of the presentation ceremony, Richard Riesenfeld and Elaine Cohen, this year’s recipients of the international Pierre Bézier Award for Solid, Geometric and Physical Modeling and Applications, are giving a lecture on a topic of their choosing at 2009 SIAM/ACM Joint International Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, which will be held in San Francisco, 5-8 Oct 2009. Identical to the award lecture, this colloquium is being offered in advance of the San Francisco meeting so the interested local audience has the opportunity to hear it.
Pierre Bézier Award Lecture: Bézier, B-splines and Beyond
In an interleaved presentation drawing on many years of personal interactions with him, the recipients will begin by presenting some historical remarks concerning less known but important lessons learned from Pierre Bézier on how he achieved enormous impact. These certainly increased our appreciation and understanding for viewing mathematical contributions to CAD/CAM and modeling research in a larger context. This will help to highlight how his insight and work contributed inspiration for much of our subsequent work on B-spline methods applied to CAD/CAM, geometric modeling and computer graphics. By taking a long perspective in time on major advances in the field, we will try to assess where we are and indentify issues that call for redoubled efforts in the future. This analysis exposes that, in a somewhat ironic turn of events, we are now embarking on a recurring cycle of historical themes, a kind of wheel of reincarnation, albeit in a vastly more sophisticated and complex setting.
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