----- Title: ----- Computational Geometry and Analysis ----------- Organizers: ----------- T.J.R. Hughes (Email: hughes@ices.utexas.edu) ICES, UT Austin 201 E. 24th Street Austin, Texas 78712 Chandrajit Bajaj (Email: bajaj@cs.utexas.edu) CES, UT Austin 201 E. 24th Street Austin, Texas 78712 Y. Bazilevs (Email: bazily@ices.utexas.edu) ICES, UT Austin 201 E. 24th Street Austin, Texas 78712 V.M. Calo (Email: victor@ices.utexas.edu) ICES, UT Austin 201 E. 24th Street Austin, Texas 78712 ------------------------- Minisymposium description: ------------------------- Geometry is the foundation of analysis yet modern methods of computational geometry have until recently had very little impact on analysis. The reason may be that the Finite Element Method (FEM), as we know it today, was developed in the 1950's and 1960's, before the advent and widespread use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) programs, which occurred in the 1970's and 1980's. Many difficulties encountered with FEM emanate from its approximate, polynomial based geometry, such as, for example, mesh generation, mesh refinement, sliding contact, flows about aerodynamic shapes, buckling of thin shells, p-methods, etc. It would seem that it is time to look at more powerful descriptions of geometry to provide a new basis for analysis. At least two themes have recently emerged with this spirit. One is based on Subdivision and the other is based on the Isogeometric concept and NURBS. Both approaches have been demonstrated to have considerable potential and several advantages over typical FEM's. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together experts in geometry and analysis interested in developing a new generation of analysis procedures based on modern developments in computational geometry.