Mathieu
Desbrun
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Professor in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
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Head
of the Applied Geometry lab
Our lab focuses on applying discrete differential geometry to a wide range of fields and applications. In particular, we approach computations from a geometric standpoint in order to provide differential, yet readily-discretizable computational foundations. Our efforts include: · Discrete Exterior Calculus: providing the means to handle basic computations without violating the symmetries and invariants that differential modeling defines for predictive purposes. · Simulation techniques: from Computational Fluid Dynamics (circulation-preserving discrete fluids and discrete variational fluids) to Discrete Elasticity (thin shells and deformable objects).. · Meshing: 2D and 3D sampling, meshing, and remeshing for accurate simulations. · Graphics: surface modeling via mesh processing, compression, animation, etc… Current members: Fernando de Goes, Gemma Mason, Dzhelil Rufat, Tomasz Tyranowski, Melissa Yeung, and Keenan Crane. |
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Head of Computing + Mathematical
Sciences department
The Computing + Mathematical Sciences (CMS) department is home to outstanding students and researchers who share a passion for science and engineering, as well as a drive to investigate the most challenging, fundamental problems in computation. We cover applied mathematics, control & dynamical systems, and computer science. |
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Research
Community Involvement, Past and Present
Director of the Information Science & Technology initiative at Caltech; Associate Editor of the ACM Transaction on Graphics journal; program committee member for the ACM SIGGRAPH conference and other international symposia; chair of the Symposium of Computer Animation and the Symposium on Geometry Processing; review panelist for NSF and DOE programs; reviewers in various computational science and computer science journals. |
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Collaborations
Our current collaborators include: Other past and present collaborators include: |
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Sponsors
We wish to acknowledge the generous and constant support of: · Federal funding: National Science Foundation, Department of Energy. · Funding from Foundations: Okawa Foundation, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. · Corporate funding: Pixar Animation Studios, Disney Animation Studios, NVidia, Microsoft Research. |
