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Fast Winding Numbers for Soups and CloudsGRAND Seminar Thursday, April 26, 12 Noon, Room: 4201 Alec Jacobson Host: Yotam Gingold Abstract: "Well, are you in or are you out?" -- Jodi Kramer, Dazed and Confused, 1993 Short Bio: Alec Jacobson is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto. Before that he was a post-doctoral researcher at Columbia University working with Prof. Eitan Grinspun. He received a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich advised by Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung, and an MA and BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. His thesis on real-time deformation techniques for 2D and 3D shapes was awarded the ETH Medal and the Eurographics Best PhD award. Leveraging ideas from differential geometry and finite-element analysis, his work in geometry processing improves exposure of geometric quantities, while his novel user interfaces reduce human effort and increase exploration. He has published several papers in the proceedings of SIGGRAPH. He leads development of the widely used geometry processing library, libigl, winner of the 2015 SGP software award. In 2017, he received the Eurographics Young Researcher Award. |