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SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Mark Pauly - Computer Science & Architecture
DTSTART:20151023T131500
DTSTAMP:20260507T213546Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Mark Pauly is a professor of computer science at the Ecole pol
 ytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He received his Ph.D. degree wit
 h highest distinction from ETH Zurich in 2003\, was a postdoctoral researc
 her at Stanford University from 2003 – 2005\, and assistant professor at
  ETH Zurich from 2005 – 2009. Mark’s research focuses on architectural
  geometry\, shape analysis\, geometric optimization\, computer animation a
 nd design. He collaborates with architects\, designers\, and engineers to 
 develop new computational methods for form finding\, performative design\,
  material-aware construction\, and digital fabrication. His work on archit
 ectural caustics (http://lgg.epfl.ch/caustics/) received the best paper aw
 ard at AAG. Mark is a PI of the new Swiss National Competence Center for R
 esearch on Digital Fabrication – Advanced Building Processes in Architec
 ture. He is also a co-founder of faceshift AG\, an EPFL spin-off company c
 reating advanced face tracking and animation software\nThis talk will show
  how innovation in architecture can be fueled by new research results in c
 omputer science. First\, will be introduced a new geometric optimization f
 ramework for interactive shape exploration\, form finding\, and dynamic si
 mulation. This framework is versatile and easy to implement\, yet allows f
 or efficient and robust computations. Most importantly\, it can easily be 
 extended and customized to a specific design task.  In the second part of
  the talk\, several more specialized research projects will be discussed t
 o illustrate how optimization can link early stages of concept design with
  the physicality of materials\, the constraints of assembly processes\, or
  performative and functional goals of a design. These projects highlight h
 ow advanced computation and novel algorithms can enable new forms of creat
 ive expression not possible before.
LOCATION:CM1104 http://plan.epfl.ch/?request_locale=en&room=CM1104&domain=
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