Associate Dean Thomas W. Sederberg Awarded 2008 John Gregory Memorial Award

Dr. Thomas W. Sederberg was recently awarded the 2008 John Gregory Memorial Award at the Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar on Geometric Modeling in Germany. The citation noted, "Tom¹s research is truly prolific. He has published research in Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD), Computer Graphics, Computational Algebra, and Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry. In Computer Graphics, Tom has published an incredible total of 11 Siggraph papers on such seminal topics as freeform deformation, morphing, subdivision, syzygies, and T-splines. Two years ago, Siggraph awarded Tom the prestigious Computer Graphics Achievement Award for his work. In CAGD, Tom has done ground breaking research on polynomial and spline algorithms, root finding using Bernstein polynomials, surface-surface intersection, freeform deformations and T-splines. In Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry, Tom has performed foundational work on exact and approximate implicitization methods, moving curves and surfaces (syzygies, which date back to Hilbert and which, incredibly, Tom independently rediscovered), mu-bases, and resultants."