Aims and Scope of the Symposium

Following successful previous workshops/symposia that were held in Grenoble (F) 2004, Bristol (UK) 1996, Rennes (F) 1998, Girona (E) 2000, and Blaubeuren (D) 2002, we are pleased to announce the 6th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization. The aim of this symposium is to share experiences and knowledge of parallel and distributed computing and its application to all aspects of computer graphics, virtual reality, scientific and engineering visualization.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Cluster based graphics and visualization
• Efficient graphics and visualization for shared and distributed memory systems
• Parallel and distributed systems for large and high resolution displays
• Parallel and distributed systems for photo-realistic rendering
• Parallel volume rendering
• Real-time systems for 3D virtual reality
• Data coherence in graphics algorithms
• Large data set visualization
• Large model realistic rendering
• Large scale simulations and graphics rendering
• Graphics and visualization in grid environments
• Parallel simulations for interactive applications
• Parallelism within GPU architectures
• GPU clusters

The EGPGV Symposium will follow the Eurovis06 Symposium on Visualization and the Eurographics Workshop in Virtual Environments that will take place on May 8-9, 2006 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Alan Chalmers
Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
United Kingdom

James T. Klosowski
Visualization Systems
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Eurographics Proceedings Series in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH.

Selected papers will also be published in a Special Issue of the journal "Parallel Computing" following a tradition established on 2004.

A short paper session will take place during the symposium. Each short paper will be allowed a 4 page publication in a separate booklet distributed to the symposium attendees. Only the short paper should be submitted for now; authors should afterwards prepare a poster to bring and display at the conference site.

There will be a "best paper" award based on the content of the paper and selected by the Program chairs. There will also be a "best presentation" award based on the oral presentation and selected by all the symposium attendees.

There is a page limit of eight pages for the submitted papers. These must be prepared as a PDF file adhering strictly to the Eurographics Submission Instructions.

• Full Paper Submission Deadline: Closed
• Poster Submission Deadline: 15, February, 2006
• Notification of Acceptance: 10, March, 2006
• Final Paper Submission Deadline: 24, March, 2006

• Luis Paulo Santos, University of Minho
• Bruno Raffin, IMAG-ID, MOAIS/INRIA
• Alan Heirich, Sony Computer Entertainment America

• Adérito Marcos, Center for Computer Graphics
• António Augusto Sousa, FE, University of Porto
• António Ramires Fernandes, DI, University of Minho
• Cristina Santos, DEI, University of Minho
• João Luís Sobral, DI, University of Minho
• João Madeiras Pereira, IST/INESC
• Luis Paulo Santos, DI, University of Minho
• Vitor Sá, DSI, University of Minho

• Dirk Bartz, WSI/GRIS - VCM, University of Tübingen
• Georges-Pierre Bonneau, CNRS
• Kadi Bouatouch, IRISA
• Montserrat Boo Cepeda, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
• Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol
• Paolo Cignoni, IEI - CNR
• Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart
• Issei Fujishiro, Tohoku University
• Charles Hansen, University of Utah
• Jian Huang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Ulrich Lang, ZAIG, University of Cologne
• Margarita Amor Lopez, University of A Coruna
• Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis
• Jamie Painter, BlackMesa Capital
• Xavier Pueyo, University of Girona
• Eric Reinhard, University of Central Florida
• Bengt-Olaf Schneider, NVIDIA
• Han-Wei Shen, Ohio State University
• Claudio Silva, University of Utah
• Philipp Slusallek, Saarland University
• Sam Uselton, Consultant
• Rüdiger Westermann, TU München
• Craig M. Wittenbrink, NVIDIA

  Web Page: http://www.di.uminho.pt/egpgv06

  For further questions please contact egpgv06@di.uminho.pt