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Sunday, 8 August CinePaint Sunday, 8 August noon - 1 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Robin Rowe rower (at) movieeditor.com Blender.org Community Meeting Sunday, 8 August 4 - 6 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Ton Roosendaal ton (at) blender.org Component Based Visualization Sunday, 8 August 5 - 6 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Michael Sanner sanner (at) scripps.edu The SIGGRAPH 2004 Sake Opening Reception Sunday, 8 August 7 pm THE*SPACE at THE_GROOP 125 West Fourth Street, Suite 103 Los Angeles, California Toshihiro Yatsumonji tyatsu (at) cggrand.jp Monday, 9 August YLEM Goals and Directions Holiday Inn City Center San Jose Ballroom Monday, 9 August 10 - 11:30 am Loren Means lorenmea (at) pacbell.net Blender Course: Seeing is Believing! Monday, 9 August 10 am - 12:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Ton Roosendaal ton (at) blender.org Computer Graphics Research for Undergraduates Monday, 9 August 1 - 2 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 William Joel joelw (at) wcsu.edu Web3D Member Meeting Monday, 9 August 1:30 - 2:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Leonard Daly daly (at) realism.com Inkscape: An Open Source Vector Graphics (SVG) Editor Overview Monday, 9 August 4 - 5 pm Holiday Inn City Center Santa Monica Room Jon Phillips phillipsjd (at) gmail.com 3D Scanning, Processing, and Display Monday, 9 August 4:00 - 5:30pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Lars Nyland lnyland (at) mines.edu Blender Artist Showcase Monday, 9 August 4 - 6 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Ton Roosendaal ton (at) blender.org RIT Alumni and Friends Gathering Monday, 9 August 4:30 - 6:30 pm Hyatt Regency Los Angeles Redondo A Marla Schweppe schweppe(at) siggraph.org Massively Parallel Graphics and Visualization Monday, 9 August 5:30 - 6:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Patricia Crossno pjcross (at) sandia.gov OpenSG BOF Monday, 9 August 6 - 7 pm Holiday Inn City Center San Jose B Dirk Reiners dirk (at) opensg.org Virginia Commonwealth University Reunion Wilshire Grand Hotel Dohney Room Monday, 9 August 6 - 9 pm Pamela Turner ptturner (at) vcu.edu Tuesday, 10 August Art on the Grid, Access Grid Art Meeting Tuesday, 10 August 8 - 9 am Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Miho Aoki aoki (at) arsc.edu OpenEXR, Film and Color Tuesday, 10 August 10 - 11am Hyatt Regency Los Angeles Redondo A Florian Kainz kainz (at) ilm.com Women In Animation Meet & Greet Tuesday, 10 August 10 - 11 am Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Jan Nagel jannagel (at) myexcel.com ACM SIGGRAPH Public Policy Roundtable 2004 Tuesday, 10 August 10 - 11:30 am Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Myles Losch jdnagel (at) webtv.net 9 Months: 30 Seconds Tuesday, 10 August 11 am - 12:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Alison Sanders alison (at) fiercefire.com ISEA Information Meeting Tuesday, 10 August noon - 1:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Cynthia Rubin info (at) isea-web.org SIGGRAPH Conference Contributor Recognition Forum Tuesday, 10 August 1 - 1:45 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 502A Thierry Frey thierry_frey (at) siggraph.org Molecular Graphics Tuesday, 10 August 1:30 - 2:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Michael Pique mp (at) scripps.edu Game Developers BOF Tuesday, 10 August 2 - 3 pm Holiday Inn City Center San Francisco Room Rudy Geronimo rudy (at) igda.org OZONE-Art, A-Life, Archaeology, Animation Tuesday, 10 August 2 - 5:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Kevin Cane kevin (at) pelleas.org 3D Printing for Scientific Visualization Tuesday, 10 August 3 - 4 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Michael Pique mp (at) scripps.edu Open Scene Graph BOF Holiday Inn Los Angeles Downtown Crown Hall Tuesday, 10 August 3:30 - 4:30 pm Don Burns don (at) andesengineering.com EQUINOX-3D User Developer Meeting Tuesday, 10 August Holiday Inn City Center San Jose B 3:30 - 5:30 pm Gabor Nagy gabor1 (at) equinox3d.com VES Annual Membership Meeting Tuesday, 10 August 4 - 5:30 pm Wilshire Grand Hotel Golden State Eric Roth eric (at) visualeffectssociety.com ACCAD Alumni Reception Tuesday, 10 August 4:30 - 6 pm Omni Hotel Los Angeles Bradbury Room Elaine Smith elaine (at) accad.osu.edu Next-Generation User Interface Technology for Consumer Electronics Tuesday, 10 August 5 - 6 pm Wilshire Grand Hotel Del Mar/Verdugo Garry Paxinos pax (at) usdtv.com Open Source Technologies for Java Game Development Tuesday, 10 August 5 - 6 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Athomas Goldberg Athomas.goldberg (at) sun.com Christians in Animation Tuesday, 10 August 5 - 8 pm Holiday Inn Los Angeles City Center San Jose A Aaron Dennis aaron( at) a-d-studio.com High Dynamic Rangee: The Future for CG Tuesday, 10 August 5:30 - 6:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Alan Chalmers alan.chalmers (at) bris.ac.uk OpenGL Performer, Features and Futures BOF Tuesday, 10 August 6 - 8 pm Wilshire Grand Hotel Sierra Ballroom Thomas Tannert ttannert (at) sgi.com Computer Graphics Pioneers Tuesday, 10 August 6 - 9 pm Wilshire Grand Hotel Garden West Sherry Keowen sherry (at) westworld.com Stony Brook University Center for Visual Computing Reunion Tuesday, 10 August 6 - 10 pm Wilshire Grand Hotel Chandler Room Arie Kauffman ari (at) cs.sunysb.edu Tokyo ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Party Tuesday, 10 August 8 - 10 pm Hyatt Regency Los Angeles Regency A/B Iwao Harguchi iw_sebastian (at) ybb.ne.jp UNC Chapel Hill Reunion Tuesday, 10 August 9 - 11 pm Wilshire Grand Hotel Cardini Ristorante Anselmo Lastra lastra (at) unc.edu

Wednesday, 11 August SPEC/GPC Press Conference Wednesday, 11 August 7 - 10 am Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Erin Hatfield erinh (at) cramco.com Sharing Ideas in Teaching 3D Animation Wednesday, 11 August 8 - 11 am Wilshire Grand Hotel Sawtelle Room Richard Lapidus lapidus (at) morainevalley.edu Khronos Group Overview: News and Updates on Four APIs Hyatt Regency Los Angeles Santa Monica A Wednesday, 11 August 9 - 10:30 am Andrew Riegel andrew (at) goldstandardgroup.com 3D User Interfaces Wednesday, 11 August 10:30 am - noon Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Doug Bowman bowman (at) vt.edu Open Media Accelator Standards Launch Wednesday, 11 August 10:45 - 11:45 am Hyatt Regency Los Angeles Santa Monica A Andrew Riegel andrew (at) goldstandardgroup.com Professional Chapters Startup Meeting Wednesday, 11 August 11 am - noon Los Angles Convention Center Room 505 Thierry Frey frey (at) siggraph.org Dome/Planetarium BOF Wednesday, 11 August 11 am - noon Hilton Checkers Salon B Jim Costigan jim (at) visual-acquity.com Ê Open Vector Graphics Standard Lunch Wednesday, 11 August noon - 1 pm Hyatt Regency Los Angeles Santa Monica A Andrew Riegel andrew (at) goldstandardgroup.com ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF Wednesday, 11 August 12:30 - 1:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Theresa-Marie Rhyne tmrhyne (at) ncsu.edu Medical Working Group of the Web3D Consoritium Wednesday, 11 August 1 - 2 pm Hyatt Regency Los Angeles Redondo Room Sandy Ressler sressler (at) nist.gov OpenML Updates for Press and Developers Wednesday, 11 August 1:15 - 2:30 pm Hyatt Regency Los Angeles Santa Monica A Andrew Riegel andrew (at) goldstandardgroup.com Film & Digital Cinema Color BOF & Hint-Fest Wednesday, 11 August 1:30 - 3:30 Holiday Inn City Center San Jose B Joseph Goldstone joseph (at) lp.com Student Chapters Startup Meeting Wednesday, 11 August 2 - 3 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Thierry Frey frey (at) siggraph.org Building 3D Web Environments to Archive Digital Art Wednesday, 11 August Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 2 - 3 pm Mike Libonati mikelib (at) juno.com Verse Wednesday, 11 August 2 - 3 pm Hilton Checkers Salon A Eskil Steenber eskil (at) obession.se CAD Working Group Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Wednesday, 11 August 3 - 4:30 pm Julian Gomez jeg (at) polished-pixels.com Virtual LEGO: Intro to Free 3D Modeling Software Wednesday, 11 August 3:30 - 4:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Tim Courtney tim (at) ldraw.org OpenGL ES Updates for Press and Developers Wednesday, 11 August Hilton Checkers Salon A 3:30 - 5 pm Andrew Riegel andrew (at) goldstandardgroup.com Developing LEGO CAD Software Wednesday, 11 August 4:30 - 5:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Orion Pobursky billthefish (at) yahoo.com Purdue University Reunion Wednesday, 11 August 5 - 7 pm Wilshire Grand Hotel Del Mar/Verdugo Jim Sprinkles jsprink (at) purdue.edu OpenGL BOF Wednesday, 11 August 5 - 8 pm Wilshire Grand Hotel Los Angeles Chelsea Pavlina chelsea (at) sgi.com Quantum Computing and the Future of Computer Graphics Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Wednesday, 11 August 5:30 - 6:30 pm Marco Lanzagorta marco.lanzagorta (at) nrl.navy.mil VR Juggler BOF Wednesday, 11 August 5:30 - 6:30pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Aaron Bierbaum aronb (at) vrac.iastate.edu Pratt Institute Alumni Cocktail Reception Wednesday, 11 August 6 - 8 pm Westin Bonaventure La Cienga Patricia Hynes lleroy (at) pratt.edu SIGGIG-Gays in Graphics Wednesday, 11 August 10 pm - midnight The Abbey Pub 692 Robertston Boulevard West Hollywood, California Bob Sumner sumner (at) csail.mit.edu Thursday, 12 August The Importance of the Exchange of Ideas Internationally Thursday, 12 August 10 - 11 am Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Daria Dorosh mail (at) dariadorosh.com DIVERSE: Open-Source VR and Simulation API Thursday, 12 August 10 am - noon Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 John Kelso kelso (at) nist.gov International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest Thursday, 12 August 11:30am - noon Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Akihiko Shirai shirai (at) mail.com CG CHAR Thursday, 12 August 1 - 2:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 Rick May junk (at) toonstruck.com The Designer's Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART) BOF Thursday, 12 August Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 1 - 3 pm Blair MacIntyre blair (at) cc.gatech.edu X3D Programmable Shaders Working Group Meeting Thursday, 12 August 3 - 5 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 Goncalo Nuno Moutinho de Carvalho c3099023 (at) tees.ac.uk The Future of the SIGGRAPH Conference Thursday, 12 August 4 - 5:30 pm Los Angeles Convention Center Room 506 G. Scott Owen owen (at) siggraph.org