ESTSPLINE · Educational, Scientific, and Technological Aspects of Splines

Educational, scientific, and technological aspects of splines

The ESTSPLINE grant contributed to three different sets of activities related to Dr Ewald Quak's scientific research field of 3D geometric modelling: 1. development of the Laboratory of Wave Engineering (please see http://wavelab.ioc.ee online) as a new part of the Center for Nonlinear Studies (CENS, please see http://cens.ioc.ee online) within the Institute of Cybernetics (IoC, please see http://www.ioc.ee online) at Tallinn University of Technology (TUT, please see http://www.ttu.ee online) in Estonia; 2. investigations of industrial applications of 3D geometry and road maps for future research in this subject area; 3. initialisation of a 3D scientific visualisation capacity within CENS. Apart from publishing articles in scientific journals, Dr Quak was the editor (with T. Soomere) of the edited volume 'Applied wave mathematics - Selected topics in solids, fluids, and mathematical methods', published by Springer, containing 12 tutorials to highlight the importance of applied mathematics in the studies of wave phenomena. He was also guest editor for the special issue '3D physiological human' of the journal The Visual Computer, together with Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland). 1. The Laboratory of Wave Engineering was formally established as a new research unit in January 2009. The team focuses on complex and nonlinear phenomena in wave dynamics and coastal engineering, and the applications of mathematical methods in wave studies. The team is led by Prof. Tarmo Soomere, a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, with Dr Quak as senior researcher. As of June 2011, it has 17 members. National and international research grants are vital for the development of the team. The currently most significant is BalticWay (the potential of currents for environmental management of the Baltic Sea maritime industry), for which Dr Quak is a member of the organising team and serves as dissemination manager, and which is coordinated by Prof. Soomere (please see http://wavelab.ioc.ee/bonus-balticway online). The main part of the ESTSPLINE grant was used to establish and run a secretariat for the laboratory, paying two administrative / research assistants: Anna Terentjeva and Katri Kartau. The importance of guaranteeing a well-functioning administrative nucleus for the inception and initial development of the laboratory simply cannot be overerestimated. It is also important to note that the assistants' duties also included research contributions. 2. In 2010, Dr Quak became a member of the editorial board of the newly established Journal of Mathematics in Industry, a peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on new developments in mathematics for industrial applications. Since 2003, Dr Ewald Quak has been co-organising annual workshops on industrial challenges in geometric modelling, computer aided design, and simulation, the most recent ones partially sponsored by ESTSPLINE, promoting the cooperation of industry and academia in addressing relevant and challenging mathematical problems from geometry, computer-aided design, shape modelling, and simulation. For the Geometric Design Activity Group of SIAM (please see http://www.siam.org/activity/gd/ online), Dr Quak organised forward looking sessions and moderated plenary panel discussions at the group's biennial conferences on geometric design in 2007, 2009, and 2011, partially supported by ESTSPLINE. The goal is to have experts suggest topics for future research, which are scientifically challenging and of practical industrial relevance. 3. The concept of a 3D visualisation system was developed jointly by Dr Ewald Quak and Dr Heiko Herrmann and partially funded by their re-integration grants ESTSPLINE and ESTWAVE. The aim was to establish a 3D visualisation system for scientific data at CENS, which has not existed there before. Contact Information: Dr Ewald Quak - email: Ewald.Quak@cs.ioc.ee Senior Researcher - Laboratory of Wave Engineering Center for Nonlinear Studies (CENS) - Institute of Cybernetics (IoC) at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Telephone: +372-5330-3224

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