Activities in 2000

December-February: Visiting Researcher at NYU Media Research Lab
under the NSF/CNPq international cooperation program.
December-March: RioArte Fellowships
Member of the Jury on Art and Technology projects.
December, 6-8: CILAMCE 2000
Presenting a paper in the Symposium on Mesh Generation and Self-adaptivity.
November, 27: D.Sc. Qualification Exam of Antonio Lopes Apolinario Jr., COPPE/UFRJ
I am the student's co-supervisor.
October, 25: D.Sc. Qualification Exam of Vinicius Moreira Mello, IMPA
I am the student's supervisor.
October, 17-20: SIBGRAPI 2000
Presenting 2 technical papers and 1 panel.
October, 10: Ciclo de Palestras - Central de Produção Multimídia, ECO-UFRJ
Invited talk.
October, 6: M.Sc. thesis on "Espacos de Escala e Deteccao de Arestas" ,
Anderson Mayrink da Cunha, IMPA - Visgraf Lab.
I am the thesis advisor.
October, 4: M.Sc. thesis on "Segmentacao de Sequencias de Imagens por Morfologia Matematica" ,
Franklin Cesar Flores, IME - USP.
I am a member of the Thesis Committee.
September, 29: D.Sc. thesis on "Analise de Interferencia de Corpos de Geometria Arbitraria em Animacao Baseada em Modelos Fisicos", Luis Antonio Rivera Escriba, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.
I am a member of the Thesis Committee.
September, 18-22: Visual 2000
I am a member of the Program Committee .
September, 11-15: XXIII CNMAC - Congresso Nacional de Matematica Aplicada e Computacional
Teaching the course on Optimization Methods in Graphics,
with Paulo Carvalho, Luiz Henrique Figueiredo and Jonas Gomes.
August to November: Course on "Image Processing for Computer Graphics" ,
I am teaching this course at IMPA with Ralph Teixeira. (course page)
August and September: Paisagem Carioca
Participating of this Exhibit at MAM with Visorama
August, 7: Comision de Informatica Argentina - (CONICET)
Participating in the executive meeting as a member of this commission.
July 31 - August 4: First Latin American Congress of Mathematicians , IMPA, Rio de Janeiro.
I was invited to teach the course on Image Processing and Wavelets , with Paulo Cezar Carvalho.
July, 24-28: Escola de Computacao 2000 , IME/USP, Sao Paulo
Collaborating with Ralph Teixeira on the course "Introducao aos Espacos de Escala" ,
July, 23-28: SIGGRAPH 2000 , New Orleans.
I am serving on the Papers Committe .
July 15-16: SBC2000 - XX Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao , PUCPR - Curitiba.
I was invited to teach the course on Computer Graphics at the
II Curso de Qualidade de Cursos de Graduacao da Area de Computacao .
June 29 - July 4,: Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces , Oslo.
Presenting a paper on the Applications of Subdivision Techniques minisymposium.
June 20: D.Sc. thesis proposal on "Multiresolution Inclusion in Arbitrary Dimensions", Luciano Silva, IME / USP
I am a member of the Supervising Committee.
May 3-5: COMPUTER ANIMATION '2000 , Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania.
I am a Member of the Program Committee.
April, 10: M.Sc. thesis on "QuadLOD: Uma Estrutura para a Visualizacao Terrenos", Rodrigo Toledo, PUC-Rio.
I am the thesis advisor.
March, 31: M.Sc. thesis on "Computing Discrete Minimal Surfaces", João Paulo Bento, COPPE / UFRJ.
I am a member of the Thesis Committee.
March, 22: D.Sc. Qualification Exam of Marcelo Medeiros Carneiro, PUC-Rio.
I supervised the monograph on volumetric rendering.
March to June: Course on "Design and Implementation of 3D Graphics Systems" ,
I teach this regular course during the first term at IMPA.
March, 6-10: Workshop on Subdivision in Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics , Dagstuhl.
I was invited to give a talk on 4-8 Meshes and Subdivision Surfaces.

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