The SOFA Week is designed to gather the entire SOFA community, to present technological and scientific advances, while fostering the networking within the community. Last year was the first occurrence of the international SOFA Week and appeared to be a great success within the community. Let’s make it even bigger for 2019!
Book the week of the 18-22nd November and join us in downtown Paris: in Station F and in EIT Digital CLC. The SOFA Week is the annual opportunity to attend:
- training sessions on SOFA or workshops/tutorials on plugins
- the SOFA international symposium
- the technical committee (STC#8)
18th Nov 2019: Training session
To start the SOFA week, a training session will take place to provide new users (and any interested participant) an efficient introduction to SOFA. The training focuses on the SOFA main principles, the community, theoretical backgrounds on physics simulation, hands-on user and developer tutorials.
19th Nov 2019: International SOFA Symposium (free)
The symposium focuses on research and scientific achievements based on SOFA. This symposium allows international researchers from the SOFA community to present their scientific work, their plugins and propose live demonstrations. It is also the annual meeting where companies using SOFA can demonstrate their latest products. Finally, it is the opportunity to meet the community and create strong collaborations.
20th Nov 2019: Plugin workshop (free)
Further to the Symposium, an advanced tutorial sessions is proposed to discover and understand specific open-source SOFA plugins. More precisely, this session aimed at providing a specific insight in recent state-of-the-art work located outside from SOFA (plugins). As last year, the 2019 edition will highlight the SoftRobot plugin and the Model Reduction plugin, among others.
20-22nd Nov 2019: Technical committee (free)
This committee focuses on technical discussions on current and future developments in SOFA. With developers of the community and SOFA Technical Members, the technical roadmap for the next release is jointly designed. It is also a unique opportunity to meet the developer community and code all together.
Day: 18th November 2019
Location: EIT Digital CLC – 4th floor, 23 avenue d’Italie, 75013 Paris, France
Room: Nice
Level: Beginner – Medium (max 8 participants)
- early bird: 500€ excl.tax. (before the 15th October 2019)
- regular fare: 700€ excl. tax.
This training session aims at providing a wide introduction to SOFA and its community while ensuring the mathematical, physical and computer science backgrounds in order to start in the best conditions with SOFA. The agenda of the training is detailed below:
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Overview of SOFA and its community |
| 10:00 am -10:30 am | Coffee – for a good start! |
| 10:30 am – 11 am | Examples of applications with SOFA |
| 11:00 am – 12:00 am | User Tutorial |
| 12:00 am – 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Understand physics with SOFA: from the math to the code |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Coffee break |
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Developer Tutorial |
Day: 19th November 2019
Location: Station F
Address: 5, parvis Alan Turing, 75013 Paris, France
Room: French Tech Central area (3D view)
Program
| 8:30 – 9:00 am | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 am |
Introduction: SOFA and its Symposium
New features!
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| 9:45 – 10:30 am |
Robotics (1/2)
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| 10:30 – 11:00 am | |
| 11:00 – 12:00 am |
Robotics (2/2)
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| 12:00 – 1:30 pm | |
| 1:30 – 1:45 pm | SOFA community at a glance |
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1:45 – 2:45 pm |
Live demo & industrial session
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| 2:45 – 4:00 pm |
Medical and VR
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| 4:00 – 4:30 pm | |
| 4:30 – 5:30 pm |
Numerical methods
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| 5:30 – 6:00 pm |
Perspectives
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Day: 20th November 2019 – Morning only
Location: EIT Digital CLC – 4th flood, 23 avenue d’Italie, 75013 Paris, France
Rooms: Rennes & Paris
Level: Medium – Advanced
| Schedule | Title | Room |
| 9:30 – 10:30 am | Model Order Reduction | Paris |
| 11:00 – 12:00 am | Optimization and Filtering | Paris |
| 11:00 – 12:00 am | Python3 at a glance | Rennes |
Day: 20th-22nd November 2019
Location: EIT Digital CLC – 4th flood, 23 avenue d’Italie, 75013 Paris, France
Rooms: Rennes & Paris
Level: Medium – Advanced
The week will close with the 8th SOFA Technical Committee. This technical committee governs and takes all technical decisions for the roadmap towards upcoming releases.
Open and free, the STC is a unique occasion to meet SOFA developers, discuss the on-going developments and code all together during the coding sprint session!
| Day 1 | Wednesday 20th November (pm) |
|---|---|
| 2:00 pm – 2:10 pm | Opening STC#8 |
| 2:10 pm – 2:30 pm | Consortium activity report |
| 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm |
SOFA activity report (part 1)
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| 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Coffee break |
| 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
SOFA activity report (part 2)
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| 6:00 pm | End of Day 1 |
| Day 2 | Thursday 21st November |
|---|---|
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am |
Defining v20.06 roadmap (part 1)
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| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Coffee break |
| 10:30 am – 12:30 am |
Defining v20.06 roadmap (part 2)
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| 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm |
Validating v20.06 roadmap
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| 2:30 pm – 6:30 pm | Coding sprint (free coffee) |
| 6:30 pm | End of Day 2 |
| 7:30 pm | Restaurant evening |
| Day 3 | Friday 22nd November |
|---|---|
| 9:00 am – 12:00 am | Coding sprint (free coffee) |
| 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Pizza delivery |
| 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Coding sprint (free coffee) |
| 4:00 pm | Closing of STC#8 |
For the first time in SOFA history, the SOFA consortium organizes Open-Source SOFA Awards!
All contributions are eligible for application: it can be an open-source plugin, a pull-request on GitHub, a video, a tutorial or documentation pages! Two award categories are open for competition:
| Organizers’ Prize Prize: 400€ |
Public Prize Prize: 200€ |
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The call for the SOFA awards is open until the 11th of November 2019. Any contribution – as long it is open – will be rewarded at the SOFA Week 2019. Winners of both prizes will be announced at the Symposium on 19th November.
Candidates
| Duriez, Christian (et al.) | Tutorials: Hands on SoftRobotics | Hands-on Soft-robotics |
| Goury, Olivier | Plugin: Model Order Reduction | MOR project |
| Marchal, Damien (et al.) | Plugin: SofaPython3 | SofaPython3 project |
| Odot, Alban | Plugin: Position-Based Dynamics | PBD Plugin |
| Roy, Frederick | Feature: Sprite-Based Rendering | See pull-request #1194 |
Industry
| Aichele, Fabian | Freelancer | Physics simulation |
| Arnaud, Damien | VisibleEP | Electrophysiology |
| Allard, Jeremie | InSimo | Physics simulation |
| Bal, Mickael | Van De Velde | Cloth/tissue simulation |
| Bensoussan, Pierre-Jean | InSimo | Physics simulation |
| Bessard-Duparc, Rémi | Freelancer | Physics simulation |
| Bianco, Rohan-Jean | Philomec | Biomechanics |
| Faure, Francois | Anatoscope | Anatomy modeling |
| Fosse, Raphael | Freelancer | Visualization simulation |
| Ghalloussi, Samah | Aalia Tech | Medical translation |
| Goy, Damien | XNov | Orthopedics |
| Javid, Farakh | WEX Lab | AI, integrated circuits |
| Jourdes, François | InSimo | Physics simulation |
| Kruithof, Joachim | VisibleEP | Electrophysiology |
| Laan, Dick | Van De Velde | Cloth/tissue simulation |
| Liege, Orianne | 3D Experience Lab, Dassault System | Physics simulation |
| Loy Rodas, Nicolas | GanymedRobotics | Orthopedics, Robotics |
| Nesme, Matthieu | Anatoscope | Anatomy modeling |
| Olsson, Fredrik | Follou | Haptics, Med. simulation |
| Olsson, Jenny | Follou | Haptics, Med. simulation |
| Pernod, Erik | Infinytech3d | VR, Physics simulation |
| Roy, Frederick | Independent developer | Visualization simulation |
| Schlegel, William | IglooSpirit | VR and AR |
| Tournier, Maxime | Anatoscope | Anatomy modeling |
Research
| Abinahed, Julien | Lead researcher (Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar) | Robotics, simulation |
| Alvarez, Juan Miguel | PhD Candidate (ENSAM, France) | Robotics |
| Artinian, Azad | PhD Candidate (UPMC, France) | Robotics |
| Baksic, Paul | PhD Candidate (ICube, France) | Medical robotics |
| Bernardin, Antonin | PhD Candidate (Irisa, France) | Contact modeling |
| Boukhris, Omar | Engineer (Inria Strasbourg, France) | Computer vision |
| Brunet, Jean-Nicolas | PhD Candidate (Inria Strasbourg, France) | FEM, Physics simulation |
| Cotin, Stephane | Lead Researcher (Inria Strasbourg, France) | Physics simulation |
| Delingette, Hervé | Lead Researcher (Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France) | Physics simulation |
| Deshpande, Saurabh | PhD Candidate (University Luxembourg, Luxembourg) | Physics simulation |
| Desrues, Gaetan | PhD Candidate (Inria, France) | Electrophysiology |
| Ducroc, Julien | Student (University Picardie, France) | Electronic engineering |
| Duriez, Christian | Lead Researcher (Inria Lille, France) | Soft-robotics |
| Escaida Navarro, Stefan | Post-doc Candidate (Inria Lille, France) | Soft-robotics, AI |
| Gaugry, Thierry | Engineer (INSA Rennes, France) | UI, Python |
| Goury, Olivier | Researcher (Inria Lille, France) | Soft-robotics |
| Guevara, Jaime | Graduated PhD (Inria Strasbourg, France) | Image registration |
| Hamze, Noura | Researcher (prev. Uni Innsbruck, Austria) | Physics simulation |
| Kassab, Souha | Researcher (INSA Lyon, France) | Fluid simulation |
| Kitouni, Dounia | Researcher (Institut de la Vision, France) | Opthalmology |
| Krewcun, Camille | PhD Candidate (Institut Pascal, France) | Medical simulation |
| Kugler, Michael | Researcher (IRCAD, France) | Medical simulation |
| Lagneau, Romain | PhD Candidate (Irisa, France) | VR, interaction |
| Lamballe, Anne-Céline | Office in charge Inria Chile (Inria, France) | International projects |
| Lezeviel, Maxence | PhD Candidate (Femto-St, France) | Physics simulation |
| Li, Shijie | PhD Candidate (Université Polytechnique, France) | Soft-robotics |
| Marchal, Damien | Lead Engineer (CNRS, France) | UI, Python, Robotics |
| Marchal, Maud | Lead Researcher (Irisa Rennes, France) | Haptics, Robotics, VR |
| Marques, Bruno | Engineer (Inria Lille, France) | Python, UI |
| Mazier, Arnaud | PhD Candidate (University Luxembourg, Luxembourg) | Physics simulation |
| Odot, Alban | PhD Candidate (Inria Strasbourg, France) | Physics simulation |
| Palliyali, Waseem | R&D Engineer (Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar) | Medical robotics |
| Poliakov, Vladimir | PhD Candidate (University Leuven, Belgium) | Mechanical simulation |
| Postek, Eligiusz | Researcher (IPPT PAN, Poland) | Biology simulation |
| Pusch, Tim | Researcher (Fraunhofer IPA) | Physics simulation |
| Shariff, Ahamadulla | Surgeon (Institute Of Medical Sciences, India) | Urology |
| Tagliabue, Eleonora | PhD Candidate (University Verona) | Robotics |
| Thieffry, Maxime | PhD Candidate (Inria Lille, France) | Softrobot control |
| Vanneste, Felix | PhD Candidate (Inria Lille, France) | Meso-mechanics |
| Vibert, Eric | Surgeon, MD, PhD (Paul Brousse Hospital, France) | Hepatobiliary surgery |
| Wu, Ke | PhD Candidate (Inria Lille, France) | Soft-robotics |
| You, Hyun-seok | PhD Candidate (Asan Medical Center, Korea) | Physics simulation |
| Zeraatpisheh, Milad | PhD Candidate (University Luxembourg, Luxembourg) | Physics simulation |
| Zhang, Doudou | PhD Candidate (University Dresden, Germany) | Anatomy for sport |
Consortium staff
| Paran, Guillaume | SOFA Consortium | Architecture, DevOps |
| Talbot, Hugo | SOFA Consortium | Community, physics |
