July 2004   Members' Letter

This mailshot introduces a Members' Letter, replacing the old Chair's letter. I will still use this opening paragraph to keep you up to date on the EG big picture but I mainly want you to see news items from our membership. So, Chapters in particular might like to nominate a correspondent to feed me the latest news about your activities or people. This Letter reaches all EG members, including those in your own country, and so it is a good opportunity to tell us all what you are up to! In fact I will make exactly the same offer to Working Groups and indeed any member who has something worth telling us about. Now is the time to do it of course, guaranteed to be in time for the next Letter ...

This year's EG Conference will be in Grenoble; next year it will be in Dublin. Eurographics again takes you to cultural riches that no other conference can match! These are both wonderful locations and I look forward to seeing many of you there. Our web site has the latest information, as always at www.eg.org.

Phil Willis
EG Chair chair@eg.org

   
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL EG CHAPTERS JOIN HANDS
  EG Spanish and Portuguese chapters are following their efforts to cooperate with South America computer graphics community. On this way, the Second Ibero-American Symposium on Computer Graphics (SIACG) will be held on Curitiba (Brazil) next October, jointly with SIBGRAPI 2004. Details can be found at http://www.inf.ufpr.br/sibgrapi2004
CGEMS EG AND SIGRAPH TOGETHER AGAIN
  CGEMS (http://cgems.inesc.pt) is now featured at the SIGGRAPH and EG home pages. Another excellent cooperation between the SIGGRAPH and EG Educational bodies.
HUNGARIAN CHAPTER NEW CHAPTER ACTIVE
 

Last year (30 Jun - 1 July) the new Hungarian Chapter organized a conference in Budapest on Computer Geometry and Graphics. It was very successful with as many as 110 participants, and 30 presentations. All presentations were published in a Proceedings.

     
IRISH CHAPTER NEW CHAPTER EVENT
  The EG Ireland workshop was held in Coleraine last year. The Workshop this year is planned for University college Cork, in September. http://multimedia.ucc.ie/Public/EG04/EGIRL04.html
KOREAN CHAPTER EG REACHES AROUND THE WORLD
  The Pacific Graphics 2004 conference, which will be held in Seoul, Korea during October 6th -8th 2004 is in an advanced stage of planning. The conference web site http://graphics.snu.ac.kr/pg2004 is up and running. sent to the graphics researchers all over the world. Eurographics is listed as a cooperating sponsor of this conference.
EG PUBLISHING BOOKS GALORE!
  Look at what EG is publishing this year ... and this is only our printed output. EG does a huge amount for the community, so make the best of your Membership to be involved, to keep up to date on our fast-moving topics and to ensure these definitive texts are in your collection.

Data Visualisation 2004 (eds. Oliver Deussen, Charles Hansen, Daniel Keim, Dietmar Saupe) ISBN 3-905673-07-X

Graphics and Cultural Heritage 2003 (eds. David Arnold, Alan Chalmers, Franco Niccolucci) ISBN 3-905673-08-8

Point Based Rendering 2004 (eds. Marc Alexa, Szymon Rusinkiewicz)
ISBN 3-905673-09-6

EGVE 2004 (eds. Sabine Coquillart, Martin Goebel) ISBN 3-905673-10-X

Parallel Graphics and Visualisation 2004 (eds. Bruno Raffin, Dirk Bartz, Han-Wei Shen) ISBN 3-905673-11-8

Rendering Techniques 2004 (eds. Alexander Keller, Henrik Wann Jensen)
ISBN 3-905673-12-6

Geometry Processing 2004 (eds. Roberto Scopigno, Denis Zorin)
ISBN 3-905673-13-4

Computer Animation 2004 (eds. Dinesh Pai, Ronan Boulic) ISBN 3-905673-14-2

Graphics Hardware 2004 (eds. Mark Harris, David Luebke) ISBN 3-905673-15-0