Rhode Island Nexus

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A full breakfast buffet will be served.

Cost: $17 for members pre-registered; $27 for members at the door; $37 for non-members

"Discrete Curvature for Physically-based Simulation and Shape Modeling"

Denis Zorin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University

Discrete curvature and shape operators, which capture complete information about directional curvatures at a point, are essential in a variety of applications: simulation of deformable surfaces (bending forces are determined by curvature), variational modeling and geometric data processing. In many of these applications, objects are represented by meshes. Solving mesh evolution or optimization problems involving discrete curvature may be expensive, as the dependence of discrete curvature on the vertex position is complex and highly nonlinear.

The quality of the results and computational efficiency is greatly influenced by the choice of curvature discretization. I will discuss mathematical tools for evaluating discretization quality and increasing discretization efficiency and their use in the context of physically-based simulation and geometric modeling...

Evening of Learning "Make your Net-Work: Networking for Business Success" Are you a skilled "networker" but not getting what you want? Do you "get it" but don't feel comfortable doing it? Women are consistently rated as very skilled at interpersonal relationships but have a difficult time networking for career success. Join Lisa Bergeron, president of Leading Women for a mind shifting, powerful and inspiring workshop. Participants will have a chance to identify their personal strengths and be exposed to new ways of thinking about strategic networking.

From the Fishouse is pleased to present a reading by poets Oliver de la Paz & Evie Shockley this Thursday, February 21, at 7:30 p.m., which will be broadcast live on the Web: http://www.bowdoin.edu/video/campus-live.shtml       

Simply visit the above link any time after 7:30 and watch the reading as it happens from the comfort of wherever you may be.

For more information, and to listen to poems by Oliver de la Paz & Evie Shockley, visit From the Fishouse: www.fishousepoems.org

The monthly meeting of the RI Film Collaborative Special Effects Group for those interested in:

• Special Visual Effects
• Animation
• Game Design