Schedule for MSRI Workshop on Real Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Modeling

9:10 - 9:30		Frank Sottile	Welcome and a bit of Real Algebraic Geometry
9:40 - 10:30		The IMA programme on Non-linear Computational Geometry
10:30 - 11:00		Break
11:00 - 11:50		Chandrajit Bajaj	Cubic A-patches and the 27 Lines of a Cubic Surface
12:00 - 2:00		Lunch
2:00 - 2:40		Ron Goldman	Introduction to Geometric Modelling
2:50 - 3:20		Martin Peternell	A dual approach to rational offset surfaces
		Modeling and Foundations of multi-sided patches
3:40 - 4:10		Jörg Peters	Part I: Modeling with multisided patches
4:20 - 5:00		Kestutis Karciauskas	Part II: Algebraic constructions of rational multisided patches

9:40 - 10:30		Josef Schicho	Real rational surfaces
10:30 - 11:00			Break
11:00 - 11:50		Amit Khetan	Implicitization of rational surfaces with toric varieties
12:15 - 2:00		Lunch
2:00 - 2:50		Ragni Piene	On the singularities of some parameterized surfaces
2:50 - 3:10		Break
3:10 - 4:00		Rimas Krasauskas	Toric Surfaces in Geometric Modelling
4:15 - 5:30		Discussion: Research Directions
		Some open problems in the area.