AGACSE 2001 Timetable

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All talks (except Monday) held in the Cambridge University Engineering Department

       
 
Monday
   
       
2.00 - 6.00 Registration    
4.00 - 6.00 A. Rockwood and
L. Dorst

Introduction to Geometric Albebra. Talks based on SIGGRAPH presentations. Held in Newnham College.

 
6.00 Reception    
       
 
Tuesday
Algebra and Geometry  
       
9.00 - 9.10 C. Doran Welcoming Address  
9.10 - 10.00 D. Hestenes Point groups and space groups in geometric algebra Abstract
10.00 - 10.30 L. Dorst The inner products of geometric algebra Abstract
10.30 - 11.00 W. Baylis Rotations in n dimensions as spherical vectors Abstract
       
11.00 - 11.30   Coffee  
       
11.30 - 12.00 T. Bouma From unoriented subspaces to blade operators Abstract
12.00 - 12.30 N. Gordon Geometric and Algebraic Canonical Forms Abstract
12.30 - 1.00 J. Snygg Functions of Clifford numbers or square matrices Abstract
       
    Lunch  
       
3.00 - 3.30 C. Koc Annihilators of Principal Ideals in the Grassmann Algebra  
3.30 - 4.00 U. Prells Compound Matrices and Pfaffians: A representation of Geometric Algebra Abstract
4.00 - 4.30 A. Rockwood A toy vector field based on geometric algebra Abstract
       
4.30 - 5.00   Tea  
       
5.00 - 5.30 H. Li Automated geometric theorem proving in the homogeneous model with Clifford bracket algebra Abstract
5.30 - 6.00 F. Sommen Analysis using abstract vector variables Abstract
6.00 - 6.30 R. Baker Jet Bundles and the Formal Theory of Partial Differential Equations Abstract
       
       
 
Wednesday
Physics  
       
9.00 - 9.30 M Derome Laws of reflection from two or more plane mirrors in succession Abstract
9.30 - 10.00 J. Pesonen Exact kinetic energy operators for polyatomic molecules Abstract
10.00 - 10.30 D. Hestenes Homogeneous rigid body mechanics with elastic coupling Abstract
10.30 - 11.00 P. Girard Quaternions, Clifford algebra and symmetry groups Abstract
       
11.00 - 11.30   Coffee  
       
11.30 - 12.00 A. Lasenby Wavefront propagation, ray tracing and scattering using geometric algebra Abstract
12.00 - 12.30 Q. Sugon A Hestenes spacetime algebra aproach to light polarization Abstract
12.30 - 1.00 N. Marchuk A tensor form of the Dirac equation Abstract
       
    Lunch  
       
2.30 - 3.45  
Posters + Demos
Held in the Engineering Department
 
       
  S. Blake Unification of Grassmann's progressive and regressive products using the principle of duality Abstract
  E. Hitzer Imaginary Eigenvalues and Complex Eigenvectors Explained by Real Geometry Abstract
  E. Hocevar An algorithm to solve the inverse IFS problem Abstract
  V. Labunets Fast quantum nD Fourier and Radon transforms Abstract
  J. Fletcher Symbolic processing of Clifford Numbers in C++ Abstract
  J. Fletcher Clifford Numbers and their inverses calculated using the matrix representation Abstract
  J. Lasenby Using multivector calculus for bivector tracking Abstract
  G. Georgiev Quadratic transformations in the projective plane Abstract
  V. Shapiro A multivector data structure for differential forms and equations Abstract
       
3.45 - 4.15   Tea  
       
4.15 - 4.45 R. Parker Analysis of one and two particle quantum systems using geometric algebra Abstract
4.45 - 5.30 T. Havel Interaction and Entanglement in the Multiparticle Space-Time Algebra Abstract
5.30 - 6.00 T. Schulte-Herbrueggen Geometry of quantum computing by Hamiltonian dynamics of spin ensembles Abstract
6.00 - 6.30 V. Labunets Is the Brain a 'Clifford Algebra Quantum Computer'? Abstract
       
       
       
 
Thursday
Computer Vision and Robotics  
       
9.00 - 10.00 J. Koenderink A generic framework for image geometry Abstract
10.00 - 10.30 E. Bayro-Corrochano Applications of algebra of incidence in visually guided robotics Abstract
10.30 - 11.00 C. Perwass Numerical evaluation of versors with Clifford algebra Abstract
       
11.00 - 11.30   Coffee  
       
11.30 - 12.00 S. Gamage Inferring dynamical information from 3D position data using geometric algebra Abstract
12.00 - 12.30 E. Rosenhahn Monocular Pose Estimation of Kinematic Chains Abstract
12.30 - 1.00 W. Neddermeyer Stabilization of 3-dimensional pose estimation Abstract
       
    Lunch  
       
    Conference Excursion  
       
7.30   Conference Dinner  
       
       
 
Friday
Signal Processing and Other Applications  
       
9.00 - 9.30 V. Labunets Fast Quantum Fourier-Heisenberg-Weyl Transforms Abstract
9.30 - 10.00 M. Felsberg The structure multivector Abstract
10.00 - 10.30 M. Baswell Clifford Algebra Space Singularities of Inline Planar Platforms Abstract
10.30 - 11.00 S. Garvey The Role of Clifford Algebra in Structure-Preserving Transformations for Second Order Systems Abstract
       
11.00 - 11.30   Coffee  
       
11.30 - 12.00 J. Fletcher The application of Clifford algebra to calculations of multicomponent chemical composition Abstract
12.00 - 12.30 E. Ho An algebraic view of the FFT Abstract
12.30 - 1.00 E. Bayro-Corrochano Color edge detection using rotors Abstract
       
    Lunch  
       
    Depart