Eurographics Awards Programme
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Eurographics decided to establish the Eurographics Awards Programme. The goal of the programme is to recognize, highlight, and promote computer graphics research in Europe. Eurographics currently presents three awards: The Distinguished Career Award, the Outstanding Technical Contributions Award, and the Young Researcher Award.
The Eurographics Awards Programme recognizes individuals who have significantly advanced the field of computer graphics. Each year, the awards are presented at the opening ceremony of the annual Eurographics conference, and winners receive a special award trophy, specifically designed for this occasion by Carlo Sequin. Details on the design and manufacture of the Eurographics award trophy can be found in this presentation (courtesy Markus Gross).
Upon creation of its Awards Programme, Eurographics selected Hans-Peter Seidel (Germany) as its founding chair. The founding members of the awards committee became Pere Brunet (Spain), Markus Gross (Switzerland), Roberto Scopigno (Italy), Hans-Peter Seidel (Germany), and Francois Sillion (France). All founding members have meanwhile left the committee. Committee membership in the awards committee is on a rotating basis with an average term of five years. The current chair of the awards committee is George Drettakis.
Nominations: Members may nominate individuals for the three award categories by contacting the awards chair, George Drettakis.
The Distinguished Career Award
Description
The Distinguished Career award is given every other year to a professional in computer graphics who has made outstanding technical contributions to the field and has shaped computer graphics in Europe, e.g., by building an internationally leading group, by creating a school of young researchers, by establishing the field in a certain country, or by advancing the field within a certain research organization.Recipients
| 2010 | Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann |
| 2008 | Pere Brunet |
| 2006 | Werner Purgathofer |
| 2004 | Claude Puech |
The Outstanding Technical Contributions Award
Description
The Outstanding Technical Contributions Award is given each year to an individual in computer graphics to highlight some outstanding technical achievement.Recipients
| 2010 | Markus Gross |
| 2009 | François Sillion |
| 2008 | Roberto Scopigno |
| 2007 | George Drettakis |
| 2006 | Thomas Ertl |
| 2005 | Daniel Cohen-Or |
| 2004 | Leif Kobbelt |
The Young Researcher Award
Description
The Young Researcher Award is given each year to two young researchers in the field who have already made a significant contribution. The intent of this award is to recognize people early on in their career who have already made a notable contribution and are likely to make more.Recipients
| 2010 | Anat Levin |
| Sylvain Lefebvre | |
| 2009 | Yaron Lipman |
| Christian Theobalt | |
| 2008 | Michael Goesele |
| Olga Sorkine | |
| 2007 | Mario Botsch |
| Jan Kautz | |
| 2006 | Mark Pauly |
| Marco Tarini | |
| 2005 | Pierre Alliez |
| Hendrik Lensch | |
| 2004 | Paolo Cignoni |
| Frédo Durand |
PhD Award
Description
Eurographics has a well-established Research Awards Programme that started in 2004, its goal being to recognize, highlight, and promote computer graphics research in Europe. The Eurographics Awards Programme recognizes individuals who have significantly advanced the field of computer graphics. Each year, the awards are presented at the opening ceremony of the annual Eurographics conference.Eurographics has now extended the Research Awards Programme, by creating an additional Best PhD Thesis Award. The aim is to recognize good thesis work in Europe, to incentivize young researchers, and to offer them the opportunity to publish the state of the art section of their thesis as a STAR in the Computer Graphics Forum Journal. Eurographics will annually grant three PhD thesis awards. The awards will be presented during the next annual Conference. They will be jointly sponsored by Eurographics and the Computer Graphics Forum Journal.
The nomination term is open, and it will close in November 30th, 2010. Candidates will be PhD Theses finalized and defended in Europe or in countries having a Eurographics Chapter and which have been uploaded to the Eurographics Online Server, http://diglib.eg.org/EG/DL/dissonline. Theses awarded the degree from May 1st, 2009 up October 31st, 2010 are eligible in this edition. The required documentation includes the thesis in English, the available thesis reports, a document showing the submission of the thesis for archive in the Eurographics Digital Library, and a short CV of the candidate. The documentation of candidate nominations must be sent by e-mail to the PhD Thesis Awards chair, Pere Brunet (pere@lsi.upc.edu), not later than November 30th, 2010.
The PhD Thesis Awards Committee consists of five members. Committee membership will be for five years terms, which will be staggered to ensure continuity. The committee can decide, as an extraordinary measure, to increase the number of awards in some years.
Awarded researchers will be announced and receive a certificate at the 2011 Annual Eurographics Conference. They will also receive a three-years free Eurographics membership, and will be invited to prepare a State-of-the-Art paper within two months after the Conference. Submitted papers will follow a fast track review cycle for publication in the STAR section of the Computer Graphics Forum Journal.
Eurographics Annual Award for Best PhD Thesis
Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine
Description
The Eurographics Association organizes a biannual competition to acknowledge the contribution that computer graphics is playing in the medical field, and to encourage further development.In 2010 the Eurographics Medical Prize has been renamed to honor Dirk Bartz who passed away far too early in March the same year. Dirk was a highly recognized and enthusiastic scientist, teacher and promoter of Visual Computing in Medicine, an active member of the Eurographics Association, and Chair of the EG Medical Prize 2007 and 2009.
Please see the attached Hall of Fame for recipients.