Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Academic Life

We had 3 publications in the top journal in our field, ACM Transactions on Graphics, including 2 from the proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference [11], [12], [13].

Cédric Zanni has been awarded an ANR JCJC 2018 project entitled IMPRIMA (Implicit modeling for additive manufacturing). IMPRIMA aims at exploring representations for the modeling, visualization and processing of both geometry and control fields for material properties within the authoring pipeline for additive manufacturing. The project will effectively start in March 2019.

Sylvain Lefebvre co-organized the first multidisciplinary workshop on academic research in additive manufacturing within the Lorraine area, which hosted 70 participants over two days. The two days workshop started on May 31, 2018 at Inria-Nancy Grand Est and was co-organized with Sandrine Hoppe (LRGP), Samuel Kenzari (IJL) and Hakim Boudaoud (ERPI). See https://www.inria.fr/centre/nancy/agenda/workshop-fa.

Creativ'Lab

The newly created experimental space for the MFX team was finished in September 2018. We are gradually moving our equipment. We worked to maximize usability and create a logical layout, organized in several spaces: one for powder devices, one for resin machines and another for filament 3D printers.

This new lab will greatly improve our capability to experiment, produce and test results.

Awards

Jérémie Dumas, who was advised by Sylvain Lefebvre and defended in February 2017, received the 2018 PhD prize from IG-RV (https://prixigrv2018.sciencesconf.org/).