The Mathematics of Surfaces. - Tome 9, Proceedings of the Ninth IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces

This book contains the Proceedings of the Ninth Mathematics of Surfaces Conference organised by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and held in Cambridge, UK on 4th-6th September 2000. The papers in this volume describe the mathematical construction, representation, approximation, recognition, and manipulation of surfaces, with an emphasis on computational methods. Such methods are of use in a variety of application areas, including computer aided design and machining, computer vision, visual inspection of manufactured parts, geographic information systems, multimedia, and medical image processing. A key feature of the papers is the interplay of ideas between the theoreticians in the subject and the users of the techniques. Highlights of the proceedings include invited papers from M. Floater (SNTEF, Norway), O. Faugeras (INRIA, France), P. Giblin (Liverpool University, UK), M.-S. Kim (Seoul National University, Korea), J. Koenderink (University of Utrecht, Netherlands), N. Patrikalakis (MIT, USA), H. Pottmann (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) and R. Schaback (University of Gôttingen, Germany).