<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE<br><br>UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO<br><br>Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008<br>Time: 2:30 p.m.<br>Place: Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th Street<br><br>------------------------------------------------<br><br>Speaker:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Miao (Lily) Jin<br><br>From:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Stony Brook University<br><br>Web page:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~mjin/">http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~mjin/</a><br><br>Title:
<!--StartFragment--><span style="color: black; ">Discrete
Surface Ricci Flow – Theoretical Foundation and Applications</span><!--EndFragment-->
<br><br>Abstract: Ricci flow is a curvature
flow method, which has been applied to the proof of the Poincare conjecture on
three dimensional manifolds. We introduce Ricci flow to engineering fields. We
generalize surface Ricci flow to discrete setting, and design algorithms of
discrete surface Ricci flow based on a variational framework. <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="">They have the potential for
a wide range of applications in computer graphics, geometric modeling, vision,
and medical imaging. We demonstrate their practical values by real
applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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