The SOFA Week is designed to gather the entire SOFA community, to present technological and scientific advances, while fostering the networking within the community. Already two successful editions in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, get ready for 2022!
Save the date: 14-18th November — a 2022 edition 100% online!
Open Registration
14th Nov 2022: 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.
15th Nov 2022: 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.
16-18th Nov 2022: 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: 14th November 2022
Location: Online
Level: Beginner – Medium (max 8 participants)
Registration costs
- early bird: 500€ excl.tax. (before the 14th October 2022)
- regular fare: 650€ 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.
Agenda
| Time (CET) | Training steps |
|---|---|
| 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 – noon | User Tutorial (part 1) |
| noon – 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm – 3 pm | User Tutorial (part 2) – involving SofaPython3 |
| 3 pm – 4 pm | Understand physics with SOFA: from the math to the code |
| 4 pm – 4:15 pm | Coffee break |
| 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm | Developer Tutorial: start your own plugin |
Location: Online
Researchers and companies from the SOFA community join the Symposium in order to share ideas, experiences and to present their on-going research or products based on SOFA. Several sessions of presentations will be organized regarding various simulation topics and application fields. Booths will also be made available for technology demonstrations.
This international event is an exciting opportunity, fostering discussions and new collaborations!
Call for presentations
To present your work at the SOFA Symposium, only two steps are required:
- Submit your abtract on the EasyChair portal (deadline: 21st October 2022)
- Register to the event using the dedicated form
— Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following submission format is expected: submit a 1-page document (create an EasyChair account to log in), i.e a short paper in the Springer LNCS style focusing on the usefulness of the SOFA Framework when preparing a published or submitted paper describing recent work. Please send a pre-print of this document to help assess the interest ad relevancy of the work for presentation to the SOFA Symposium. This pre-print will not be made public.
— Important Dates
- October 21st, 2022: submission deadline for presentation proposals (create an EasyChair account to log in)
- October 28th, 2022: registration deadline for the SOFA Week
- October 28th, 2022: notification to authors
2019 edition
2018 edition
Day: 16-18th, November 2022
Location: Online
Level: Medium – Advanced
The week will close with the 14th SOFA Technical Committee. This technical committee governs and takes all technical decisions for the roadmap towards upcoming releases.
It is open and free to all! All you need is to specify your attendance in your registration.
Program
| Day 1 (CET) | Wednesday 16th November |
|---|---|
| 9:00 am | Online welcoming |
| 9:10 am – 9:30 am | STC#14 opening & Consortium news |
| 9:30 am – 11:30 am |
Roundtable Share your latest activity around SOFA (past and future) |
| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm |
v22.12 roadmap contributions Review together v22.12 progress. |
| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm |
Select potential projects for v23.06 roadmap Select projects that satisfy the roadmap entry criterias |
| 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm |
Define 6-month objectives for each potential project List ~5 objectives per project for the next in 6 months |
| 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm |
Review objectives to finalize v23.06 roadmap For each project, are we satisfied with the objectives? If yes, the project is added to v23.06 roadmap |
| Day 2 (CET) | Thursday 17th November |
|---|---|
| 9:15 am – 5:00 pm |
Technical discussions and coding sprint See final agenda and sprint tasks. |
| Day 3 (CET) | Friday 18th November |
|---|---|
| 9:15 am – 4:00 pm |
Technical discussions and coding sprint See final agenda and sprint tasks. |
This year again, the SOFA consortium has the pleasure to organize the 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: 600€ |
Public Prize Prize: 400€ |
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The call for the SOFA awards is open until the 11th of November 2022. Any contribution – as long it is open – will be rewarded at the SOFA Week 2022. Winners will be announced during the Symposium on 15th November.
Candidates
| Memento Memory | Scheikl, Paul | Trying to use sofa as a simulation environment for Reinforcement Learning, I discovered a few bugs and memory leaks that would not occur for “normal” usage of SOFA. I would like to present my workflow of finding and fixing them. |
| SofaCutting plugin | Poliakov, Vladimir | For the past six months, I have been working on the SofaCutting plugin. This plugin allows quasi-online simulation of cutting in SOFA with a following offline optimization of the mesh. The current state is about 40-50% ready. Cutting is implemented using the default collision pipeline. To do so, an additional attribute named domain has been added to the collision model class, which works exactly opposite to the group attribute (collision is tested if domain == domain and group != group). At the moment, offline optimization is not implemented. Once done, quasi-online cutting can be updated to be performed online.
To match the cut with the visual model, the surface mesh is derived from the volumetric topology and refined online using OpenSubdiv. |
Previous winners
| Organizers’ Prize | Public Prize |
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Industry
| Bounik, Zahra | Self-entrepeneur, Iran | Machine-learning, AR/VR |
| Lee, Fengying | Engineer – none | Biomechanical simulation |
| Novaes, Luis | Engineer – CIMATEC, Brazil | Soft-robotics |
| Pernod, Erik | CEO – InfinyTech3D, France | VR, Physics simulation |
| Ticona L., Jose Abel | Engineer – Sidia, Brazil | Physics simulation |
| Xiaofei, Chen | Engineer – none | Biomechanical simulation |
| Zari, Davide | VP – EBITmax GmbH, Germany | Biomechanical simulation |
Research
| Aguilar, Antonio | Engineer – Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico | VR, biomechanics |
| Bo, Tao | PhD student – Beijing Institute of Technology, China | Soft-robotics |
| Caeiro R., Manuel | Engineer – Universidade de Vigo, Spain | VR/AR |
| Civilla, Lorenzo | Researcher – Medical University of Vienna, Austria | 3D printing, haptics |
| Corbin, Nicholas | PhD Student – UCSD, USA | Soft-robotics |
| D’Andrea Luca | PhD Student – Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Biomedical simulation |
| De Cet, Anna | PhD Student – Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Biomedical simulation |
| Dehaybe, Louis | PhD Student – University of Liège, Belgium | Robotics |
| DeLorey, Charlie | PhD Student – Boston University, USA | Soft-robotics |
| Deshmukh, Krishna | PhD Student – UCEOU, USA | Soft-robotics |
| Desrues, Gaetan | PhD Student – Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France | Cardiac simulation |
| Eyberg, Christoph | PhD Student – Fraunhofer IPA, Germany | Soft-robotics, biomechanics |
| Ferrentino, Pasquale | PhD Student – Vrije Universiteit of Brussels, Belgium | Soft-robotics |
| Finocchiaro, Martina | PhD Student – UPC, Spain | Biomechanics |
| Gavin C., Barnabas | PhD Student – Virginia Tech, USA | Soft-robotics |
| HA, Thuc Long | PhD Student – Inria Strasbourg, France | Medical robotics |
| Haouas, Wissem | Researcher – FEMTO-ST institute, France | Soft-robotics |
| Hockings, Nick | Researcher – Veterinary Med. Uni. Vienna, Austria | Biomechanical simulation |
| Kundrat, Dennis | Researcher – University of Twente, Netherlands | Soft-robotics |
| Liu, Changjing | MSc Student – Inria Lille, France | Soft-robotics, biomechanics |
| Liu, Jun | Researcher – IHPC, A*STAR, Singapore | Soft-robotics |
| Lou, Ruding | Researcher – Arts et Métiers, France | Geometry processing, VR |
| Mazier, Arnaud | PhD Student – University Luxemburg, Luxemburg | Biomechanics |
| Min, Hu | PhD Student – Aier Eye Hospital, China | Soft-robotics |
| Navez, Tanguy | PhD Student – Inria Lille, France | Soft-robotics |
| Nguyen Huu, Nhan | PhD Student – JAIST, Japan | Soft-robotics |
| Ni, Shiyao | Undergrad – McGill University, Canada | Soft-robotics |
| Nikolaev, Sergei | Postdoc – University Montpellier, France | Computational biology |
| Peters, Jorg | Researcher – University Florida, USA | Biomechanics |
| Poliakov, Vladimir | PhD Student – KU Leuven, Belgium | Surgical simulation |
| Ringel, Morgan | Postdoc – Vanderbilt University, USA | Biomechanics |
| Scheikl, Paul | PhD Student – KIT, Germany | Medical robotics |
| Sedal, Audrey | Researcher – McGill University, Canada | Soft-robotics |
| Serkan, Ergun | PhD Student – University of Klagenfurt, Austria | Human-robot interaction |
| Sun, Danying | Master Student – Zhejiang University, China | Soft-robotics |
| Xia, Jiutian | PhD student – South China UoT, China | Soft-robotics |
| Xu, Xin | PhD Student – Polytechnic University, HongKong | Soft-robotics |
| Yang, Gu | Researcher – ICT, China | Haptics |
| Zhongming, Lv | PhD Student – Hefei UoT, China | Soft-robotics |
| Zi, PengChang | PhD Student – South China UoT, China | Soft-robotics |
Consortium staff
| Talbot, Hugo | Engineer – SOFA Consortium, France | Community, Biomechanics |
