Medial Object Workshop, The Royal Hotel, Cambridge, England Thu 9 – Fri 10 Oct 2014 Immediately before SANDIA International Meshing Roundtable in London http://www.sandia.gov/imr/ Day 1: Thursday 9 October 1. Welcome & introduction Dr Geoff Butlin, TranscenData Europe Ltd Problems of MO computation Dr Malcolm Sabin, Numerical Geometry & Dr Tom Cashman, TranscenData 2. coffee break 3. MO computation I 15 10.00 45 10.15 11.00 chair: Dr Malcolm Sabin (Numerical Geometry) 11.30 Delaunay computation of medial axis – survey 2D mesh computation using medial axis Professor Nina Amenta, University of California at Davis 30 Scalable and robust computation of medial axes and surfaces in 2D and 3D: State-of-the-art Prof. dr. Alexandru C. Telea, University of Groningen 30 3D medial object computation using a domain Delaunay triangulation Henry Bucklow, TranscenData 30 4. lunch 5. MO applications I 13.00 chair: Professor Wenping Wang 14.00 LayTracks3D: Hex Mesh Generation using Medial Axis Transform William Roshan Quadros, SANDIA 30 Toward exascale parallel mesh generation with the help of medial axis based domain decomposition Professor Nikos Chrisochoides, Old Dominion University 30 Making a Medial Object usable in an Engineering Simulation context Joe Walsh, Intrinsim 30 6. tea break 7. MO applications II 15.30 chair: Ted Blacker 16.00 Comparing Approaches To Semi-structured Mesh Generation Professor Cecil Armstrong, Queen’s University Belfast 30 Mesh Generation for Aircraft Engines based on the Medial Axis Dr Florian Buchegger, Johannes Kepler University 30 Need for/review hex meshing with MO Alex Sansom, Rolls-Royce + Dr Malcolm Sabin, Numerical Geometry 30 8. end of day 1: walk through old Cambridge to Queens’ College 17.30 9. drinks in Old Kitchens, Queens’s College 19.00 10. dinner in Old Hall, Queens’ College 19.30 11. after dinner talk in the Bowett Room, Queens’ College by Professor Jim Woodhouse, Cambridge University Engineering Department: “When does a structure become an instrument?” 21.00 Medial Object Workshop, The Royal Hotel, Cambridge, England Day 2: Friday 10 October: 12. MO computation II chair: Professor Tamal Dey 9.00 Computing Stable and Compact Representation of Medial Axis Professor Wenping Wang, University of Hong Kong 30 PDE-based techniques for distance function estimation Dr. Alexander Belyaev, Stony Brook University 30 From Medial Axes to Shock Scaffolds Professor Frederic Fol Leymarie, Goldsmiths, University of London 30 13. coffee break 14. MO computation III 10.30 chair: Dr Tom Cashman Medial Object and Rational Offsets 11.00 Dr Jiri Kosinka, CUCL 30 Professor M. Ramanathan, IIT Madras 30 Computing medial axis and curve skeleton with Voronoi diagrams Professor Tamal Dey, The Ohio State University 30 Medial Object computation 15. lunch 16. MO applications III 12.30 chair: Mark Gammon Medial Axis Based Mesh Generation Applied to Turbomachinery Flows Zaib Ali, Whittle Lab, Cambridge University Engineering Department 13.30 30 Using the Medial Object to facilitate automated toolpath generation for Wire and Arc Additive Manufacture Professor Helen Lockett, Cranfield University 30 17. Need for, and progress with CFD blocking Scott Shaw (AIRBUS) & Robin Fairey, TranscenData 30 Workshop sum-up plus general discussion chaired by Dr Malcolm Sabin 60 18. end of Medial Object Workshop 19. post event session with SANDIA Labs on Additive Manufacturing All Workshop attendees welcome 20. end of day 2 15.00 16.00 60 16.15 17.30