[Metalab-announce] Fr 29.4. Metaday #41 Spezial - Herbert Edelsbrunner: Fun with 3D Printing Technology

[Peter Kuhm]

/ Die letzte Aprilwoche steht im Zeichen von "5 Jahre Metalab" http://bit.ly/gKOtfW
/ Unter den sechs Veranstaltungstagen darf auch ein Metaday Abend nicht fehlen.
/ Den Hauptvortrag wird Prof. H. Edelsbrunner halten, eine ausgesprochene Koryphäe
/ am 3D Geometrie-Himmel, mit österr. Wurzeln.


--> http://metalab.at/wiki/Metaday_41  

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The Metalab is glad to invite everyone interested to Metaday #41 – Special Edition

    on Friday, April 29 2011, 19:30 (20:00)
    at Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, downtown Vienna close to the city hall – free entry 
    http://metalab.at/wiki/Lage


== Fun with 3D Printing Technology ==

Lecturer:  Herbert Edelsbrunner
           http://www.cs.duke.edu/~edels/

With geometric software and a three-dimensional printer, it is remarkably easy to
create or manufacture interesting 3-dimensional shapes. In the past, I used this
technology to create novel mathematical shapes, model the structure of proteins,
and recreate everyday artifacts. This talk will discuss some of the mathematical
and computational background and use images and 3D prints as illustrations.

Speaker: Herbert Edelsbrunner was born in Graz 1958. He studied Technical
Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology. Herbert is considered to be one
of the leading researchers in computational geometry and the founding father and
a leading figure in computational topology. He is Professor at IST Austria,
Professor at Duke University, and Co-founder of the successful software company
http://geomagic.com 


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== Afterparty ==

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