Talk by Gabriel Zachmann
You are invited to attend the talk "Of Spheres and Squares - Packing and Using them" by
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Zachmann
Universität Bremen
Professor of computer graphics, visual computing, and virtual reality
Web: cgvr.informatik.uni-bremen.de
Date and time: February 13, 14:00h
Location: Bauhausstr. 11, Room 014
Abstract I will present an algorithm to quickly compute one kind of sphere packings in 3D. In addition, I will describe how to perform proximity and penetration computations based on such packings. This way we can, for instance, compute forces for physically-based simulations or haptic simulations very quickly.
Bio Dr. Gabriel Zachmann is professor for computer graphics, visual computing, and virtual reality at University of Bremen, Germany, since 2012. Before that, he established and headed the computer graphics group at Clausthal University, Germany, where he was a professor with the computer science department since 2005. Prior to that, he was assistant professor with Prof. Reinhard Klein's computer graphics group at Bonn University, Germany, and head of the research group (Nachwuchsgruppe) for novel interaction methods in virtual prototyping, which was funded by the DFG within the Emmy-Noether programme ("Aktionsplan Informatik"). Dr. Zachmann's research interests include geometric algorithms for computer graphics, in particular collision detection and related topics, virtual prototyping, virtual reality in general, computer vision based hand tracking, immersive user interaction, immersive visualization, virtual cities, and others.