SIGGRAPH 2011

Program	Date & Time	Focus
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Starting a New, Remote Studio East Building, Room 18 Details Studio heads from Pixar Canada, Digital Domain (Vancouver), and Sony Imageworks (Vancouver) host an interactive panel session on setting up new remote studios in Vancouver. smcnair (at) pixarcanada.com Sarah McNair	Wednesday, 10 August 11am-12:00 pm	Production Communities
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community International Center, Harbour Concourse (Southeast corner of West Building) Details Join us to discuss the year round activities of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, including online curated exhibitions, our virtual community, and discussions. Bring announcements and ideas. rubin (at) siggraph.org Cynthia Beth Rubin	Sunday, 7 August 4-6:00 pm	Art
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather SIGGIG: Gays In Graphics Beluga Details SIGGIG: Gays In Graphics is a social event for attendees involved in, interested in, or supportive of the GLBT community. siggig.info (at) gmail.com Mark Lieberman	Tuesday, 9 August 7-9:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Ringling College Alumni Reception Ambleside Details A gathering for alumni and friends of the Ringling College of Art and Design. lfoss (at) ringling.edu Lucy Foss	Wednesday, 10 August 5-7:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather rest3d BOF West Building, Room 102 Details This session is for attendees interested in creating a RESTful web service for 3D content. More information: rest3d.org remi (at) acm.org Remi Arnaud	Wednesday, 10 August 12-2:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Purdue University Alumni Reception Terrace Room Details Come Boiler Up with the Purdue crew! Purdue alumni, students, professors, and friendlies welcome. rhassan (at) purdue.edu Raymond P. Hassan	Wednesday, 10 August 6:30-8:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Practical integration of Alembic Tweedsmuir Details A dialogue with the Alembic development team focused on pipeline integration and optimization of the format. Topics include API usage, collaboration with studio partners, and standardization of the format. estrauss (at) imageworks.com Erik Strauss	Wednesday, 10 August 10-11:30 am
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather OpenSG East Building, Room 19 Details This session is for attendees interested in the OpenSG Open Source scenegraph system for interactive 3D and virtual reality applications. mail (at) dirkreiners.com Dirk Reiners	Tuesday, 9 August 5-6:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather OpenSceneGraph BOF West Building, Room 102 Details This discussion of the OpenSceneGraph open-source system includes new developments, how to use the software, and how people are using it. richards (at) spawar.navy.mil John Richardson	Wednesday, 10 August 10-11:00 am	Art
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather OpenGL BOF Crystal Ballroom B & C Details Learn more about OpenGL, the most widely adopted 2D/3D graphics API, from the ARB and leading OpenGL companies. marketing (at) goldstandardgroup.com Khronos Group	Wednesday, 10 August 4-6:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather OpenColorIO Meetup West Building, Room 102 Details OpenColorIO is an open-source color management framework for visual effects and animation, sponsored by Sony Pictures Imageworks. Meet the developers, ask questions, and learn about upcoming developments. jeremys (at) imageworks.com Jeremy Selan	Tuesday, 9 August 2:30-3:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather OpenCL BOF Crystal Ballroom B & C Details Meet designers and implementers of this significant new standard for heterogeneous parallel programming on GPUs and CPUs. Learn how OpenCL inter-operates with OpenGL to enable advanced, cross-platform, visual-computing applications. marketing (at) goldstandardgroup.com Khronos Group	Wednesday, 10 August 1:30-3:30 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Multi-Projector Auto-Calibration Standards (MPACS) Garibaldi Room Details A opportunity to meet people in the field of projector auto-calibration. The session reviews the current market landscape and what's coming in the future. bei.yang (at) disney.com Bei Yang	Tuesday, 9 August 2-4:00 pm	Production Communities
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Motion Graphics West Building, Room 122 Details This session is for attendees interested in motion graphics. Come and see cool projects, and exchange techniques and ideas! gil (at) conoa.com Gil Irizarry	Tuesday, 9 August 3-5:00 pm	Production Communities
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Motion Capture Society East Building, Room 19 Details This session is open to everyone who has an interest in motion capture. Topics and presentations include various hardware and software solutions, pipelines, and techniques for getting the best data. troy.mcfarland (at) gmail.com Troy McFarland	Wednesday, 10 August 10am-12:00 pm	Production Communities
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Mobile APIs BOF West Building, Room 122 Details Get the inside track on OpenGL ES, OpenVG, OpenMAX, and all the new-media APIs being used to develop the billion-dollar, billion-user gaming and mobile multimedia markets! marketing (at) goldstandardgroup.com Khronos Group	Thursday, 11 August 10am-12:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Managing Creative Projects West Building, Room 116 Details This session is for attendees interested in discussing creative projects and how to manage them, with a particular emphasis on Agile methodologies. gil (at) conoa.com Gil Irizarry	Wednesday, 10 August 3-5:00 pm	Production Communities
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Linux and Graphics pipeline tools. Garibaldi Room Details This session may be interesting to those who are building grapics pipelines on Linux and encountering difficulties associated with products, QT versions, python versions, gcc, etc. kevin.p.gambrel (at) disney.com Kevin Gambrel	Monday, 8 August 5:30-7:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Leonardo Community Meeting West Building, Room 101 Details Leonardo community members and all SIGGRAPH attendees are invited to hear presentations from selected Leonardo Affiliate Member organizations on cutting-edge research and educational programs in ArtScience around the world. pgr (at) leonardo.info Pamela Grant-Ryan	Wednesday, 10 August 10-11:30 am
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather JogAmp: 2D/3D & Multimedia Across Devices East Building, Room 19 Details JogAmp provides JOGL (OpenGL) and JOCL (OpenCL) across devices on top of Java. This session showcases resolution-independent curve, font, and UI GPU rendering on desktop and mobile (Android, etc.) devices. sgothel (at) jogamp.org JogAmp Community	Tuesday, 9 August 2:30-4:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather IVRC (International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest) West Building, Room 116 Details 10th anniversary of IVRC! The International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest is organized through the Virtual Reality Society. IVRC2011, the 19th annual competition, is scheduled for this fall. shirai (at) mail.com IVRC Executive Committee	Sunday, 7 August 11am-12:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather In-Formation San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Plaza A Details This session is for attendees from San Francisco who are interested in the re-opening of the San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter. tflaxman (at) flaxanimation.com Tereza Flaxman	Tuesday, 9 August 3-4:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather GPU Ray Tracing Waterfront Ballroom B Details Join the third annual GPU Ray Tracing Birds of a Feather session. Show off your demos. Share your use cases, ideas, and gripes. High-performance CPU ray tracing is welcome, too. davemc (at) nvidia.com NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Center	Wednesday, 10 August 2-3:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Global Pipelines v2 East Building, Room 18 Details This companion event to the panel titled is an informal gathering to discuss the complex relationships between technology and collaboration for distributed work environments. estrauss (at) imageworks.com Erik Strauss	Tuesday, 9 August 5-6:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Games at SIGGRAPH Meetup West Building, Room 102 Details The goal of this session is to encourage dialog about new technologies in game development and interactive graphics. Discussion topics include mobile and social games, research in games and interactive graphics, and effective collaboration. dma35 (at) sfu.ca David Milam	Wednesday, 10 August 1:30-2:30 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Starting a New, Remote Studio

East Building, Room 18

Details

Studio heads from Pixar Canada, Digital Domain (Vancouver), and Sony Imageworks (Vancouver) host an interactive panel session on setting up new remote studios in Vancouver.

smcnair (at) pixarcanada.com

Sarah McNair

Wednesday, 10 August
11am-12:00 pm

Production Communities

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

SIGGIG: Gays In Graphics

Beluga

Details

SIGGIG: Gays In Graphics is a social event for attendees involved in, interested in, or supportive of the GLBT community.

siggig.info (at) gmail.com

Mark Lieberman

Tuesday, 9 August
7-9:00 pm

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

rest3d BOF

West Building, Room 102

Details

This session is for attendees interested in creating a RESTful web service for 3D content. More information: rest3d.org

remi (at) acm.org

Remi Arnaud

Wednesday, 10 August
12-2:00 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Practical integration of Alembic

Tweedsmuir

Details

A dialogue with the Alembic development team focused on pipeline integration and optimization of the format. Topics include API usage, collaboration with studio partners, and standardization of the format.

estrauss (at) imageworks.com

Erik Strauss

Wednesday, 10 August
10-11:30 am

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

OpenSceneGraph BOF

West Building, Room 102

Details

This discussion of the OpenSceneGraph open-source system includes new developments, how to use the software, and how people are using it.

richards (at) spawar.navy.mil

John Richardson

Wednesday, 10 August
10-11:00 am

Art

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

OpenColorIO Meetup

West Building, Room 102

Details

OpenColorIO is an open-source color management framework for visual effects and animation, sponsored by Sony Pictures Imageworks. Meet the developers, ask questions, and learn about upcoming developments.

jeremys (at) imageworks.com

Jeremy Selan

Tuesday, 9 August
2:30-3:30 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Multi-Projector Auto-Calibration Standards (MPACS)

Garibaldi Room

Details

A opportunity to meet people in the field of projector auto-calibration. The session reviews the current market landscape and what's coming in the future.

bei.yang (at) disney.com

Bei Yang

Tuesday, 9 August
2-4:00 pm

Production Communities

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Motion Capture Society

East Building, Room 19

Details

This session is open to everyone who has an interest in motion capture. Topics and presentations include various hardware and software solutions, pipelines, and techniques for getting the best data.

troy.mcfarland (at) gmail.com

Troy McFarland

Wednesday, 10 August
10am-12:00 pm

Production Communities

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Managing Creative Projects

West Building, Room 116

Details

This session is for attendees interested in discussing creative projects and how to manage them, with a particular emphasis on Agile methodologies.

gil (at) conoa.com

Gil Irizarry

Wednesday, 10 August
3-5:00 pm

Production Communities

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Leonardo Community Meeting

West Building, Room 101

Details

Leonardo community members and all SIGGRAPH attendees are invited to hear presentations from selected Leonardo Affiliate Member organizations on cutting-edge research and educational programs in ArtScience around the world.

pgr (at) leonardo.info

Pamela Grant-Ryan

Wednesday, 10 August
10-11:30 am

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

IVRC (International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest)

West Building, Room 116

Details

10th anniversary of IVRC! The International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest is organized through the Virtual Reality Society. IVRC2011, the 19th annual competition, is scheduled for this fall.

shirai (at) mail.com

IVRC Executive Committee

Sunday, 7 August
11am-12:00 pm

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

GPU Ray Tracing

Waterfront Ballroom B

Details

Join the third annual GPU Ray Tracing Birds of a Feather session. Show off your demos. Share your use cases, ideas, and gripes. High-performance CPU ray tracing is welcome, too.

davemc (at) nvidia.com

NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Center

Wednesday, 10 August
2-3:30 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Games at SIGGRAPH Meetup

West Building, Room 102

Details

The goal of this session is to encourage dialog about new technologies in game development and interactive graphics. Discussion topics include mobile and social games, research in games and interactive graphics, and effective collaboration.

dma35 (at) sfu.ca

David Milam

Wednesday, 10 August
1:30-2:30 pm