Sheffer Alla – Curriculum Vitae

(last update Feb. 08)

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

University of British Columbia

 

201-2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC,

Canada V6T 1Z4  

(tel.) +1-(604)-822-4030 (fax.) +1-(604)822-5485

sheffa@cs.ubc.ca

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~sheffa

 

Research Interests

 

 

My research focuses on digital geometry processing and evolves around meshes (polygonal model representations). The main application areas of this research are computer graphics and computer aided engineering applications.  In my research I utilize tools from applied computational geometry, differential geometry and graph theory to generate, manipulate, and edit three-dimensional geometric models.

 

Academic Degrees

 

1999

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Ph.D. Computer Science

1995

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, M.Sc. (Cum Laude) Computer Science

1991

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) Math and Computer Science

 

Academic Experience

 

2003-

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department,  UBC

2001- 2003

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Technion

1999-2001

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1997

Visiting Scholar, Faculté Leonard de Vinci, Paris, France, (6 month)

1995-1999

Research/Teaching Assistant, Hebrew University

 

Professional Experience

 

1996-1999

Consultant, Fluent, Inc. IL, USA

1995

Software Engineer, Schema, Inc.

1991-1995

Software Engineer, Israel Defense Forces

 

Teaching Experience

 

2008

Discrete Math and Data Structures (221), UBC

2007/06/05/04

Digital Geometry Processing (524, formerly 533A), UBC

2006

Geometric Modeling (424), UBC

2005, 2004

Introduction to Computer Graphics (314), UBC

2003, 2002

Digital Geometry Processing, Technion– Ranked top 15% (within elective/graduate courses category) in student teaching evaluation (2002).

2002, 2001

Introduction to Computer Graphics, Technion

1998

Introduction to Computer Science, TA, Hebrew University

1997

Programming Laboratory, Lecturer, Hebrew University

1996, 1995

Programming Laboratory, TA, Hebrew University

 

List of Publications

 

Journal Papers

1.                                

H. Fu, D. Cohen-Or, G. Dror, A. Sheffer, Upright Orientation of Man-Made Objects, ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2008), 27(3), 2008. to appear.

2.                                

D. Bradley, T. Popa, A. Sheffer, W. Heidrich, T. Boubekeur, Markerless Garment Capture, ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2008), 27(3), 2008. to appear.

3.                                

M. Kilian, S. Floery, Z. Chen, N. J. Mitra, A. Sheffer, H. Pottmann, Curved Folding, ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2008), 27(3), 2008. to appear.

4.                                

T. Popa, D. Julius, A. Sheffer, Interactive and Linear Material Aware Deformations, International Journal of Shape Modeling, 13(1), 73 – 100, 2007.

5.                                

A. Sheffer, E. Praun, K. Rose, Mesh Parameterization Methods and their Applications, Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision, Now Publishers, 2006, ISBN  978-1-933019-43-7, (also Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision, volume 2(2),2006).

6.                                

N. Ray, W. C. Li, B. Levy, A. Sheffer, P. Alliez, Periodic Global Parameterization, ACM TOG, 25(4), 1460 - 1485 , 2006.

7.                                

V. Kraevoy, A. Sheffer, Mean-Value Geometry Encoding, International Journal of Shape Modeling, 12(1), 2006.

8.                                

P. Decaudin, D. Julius, J. Wither, L. Boissieux, A.  Sheffer, M.-P. Cani, Virtual Garments: A Fully Geometric Approach for Clothing Design, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc Eurographics  2006), 25(3),2006.

9.                                

D Julius, V. Kraevoy, A. Sheffer, D-Charts: Quasi-Developable Mesh Segmentation, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc Eurographics 2005), 24(3), 981-990, 2005

10.                            

A. Sheffer, B. Lévy, M. Mogilnitsky, A, Bogomyakov, ABF++: Fast and Robust Angle Based Flattening, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 24(2), 311-330 2005

11.                            

V. Kraevoy, A. Sheffer, Cross-Parameterization and Compatible Remeshing of 3D Models, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2004), 23(3), 861 – 869, 2004

12.                            

A. Sheffer, C. Gotsman and N. Dyn, Robust Spherical Parameterization of Triangular Meshes, Computing, 72, 185-193, 2004

13.                            

R. Raab, C. Gotsman, and A. Sheffer, Virtual Woodwork: Making Toys from 3D Models, International Journal of Shape Modelling, 2004, 10(1), 1-30, 2004.

14.                            

A. Sheffer, Skinning 3D Meshes, Graphical Models, 65(5), 274-285, 2003.

15.                            

V. Kraevoy, A. Sheffer, C. Gotsman, Matchmaker: Constructing Constrained Texture Maps, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2003), 22(3), 326-333, 2003.

16.                            

C. Gotsman, X. Gu, A. Sheffer, Fundamentals of Spherical Parameterization for 3D Meshes,  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2003), 22(3), 358-363, 2003.

17.                            

.A. Üngör, A. Sheffer, R. B. Haber, and S.-H. Teng, Layer based solutions for constrained spacetime meshing,  Applied Numerical Mathematics, 46(3-4), 425-443, 2003. 

18.                            

A. Sheffer, E. de Sturler, Smoothing an Overlay Grid to Minimize Linear Distortion in Texture Mapping, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 21(4), 874-890, 2002.

19.                            

A. Ungor, A. Sheffer, Pitching Tents in Space-Time: Mesh Generation for Discontinuous Galerkin Method, International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), 13(2), 201-221, 2002.

20.                            

A. Sheffer, A. Ungor, Efficient Adaptive Meshing of Parametric Models, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 1(4), 366-375, 2001.

21.                            

A. Sheffer and E. de Sturler, Parameterization of Faceted Surfaces for Meshing Using Angle Based Flattening, Engineering with Computers, 17 (3), 326-337, 2001.

22.                            

A. Sheffer, Model Simplification for Meshing Using Face Clustering, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 33: 925-934, 2001.

23.                            

A. Sheffer, T. Blacker, M. Bercovier, Virtual Topology Operators for Meshing, International Journal of Computational Geometry and applications, 10(3), 309-331, 2000.

24.                            

A. Sheffer, M. Bercovier, Hexahedral Meshing of Non-Linear Volumes Using Voronoi Faces and Edges, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 49(1-2), 329-351, 2000.

25.                            

A. Sheffer, M. Etzion, A. Rappoport, M. Bercovier Hexahedral Mesh Generation Using the Embedded Voronoi Graph, Engineering with Computers, 15, 248-262, 1999.

26.                            

O. Volpin, A. Sheffer, M. Bercovier, L. Joskowicz, Mesh Simplification with Smooth Surface Reconstruction, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 30, 875-882, 1998.

27.                            

A. Rappoport, A. Sheffer, M. Bercovier, Volume Preserving Free Form Solids, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2(1), 19-27, 1996.

 

Refereed Proceedings

 

28.                            

V. Kraevoy, D. Julius, A. Sheffer, Model Composition from Interchangeable Components, Proc. Pacific Graphics 2007.

29.                            

K. Rose, A. Sheffer, J. Wither, M.-P. Cani, B.Thibert , Developable Surfaces from Arbitrary Sketched Boundaries, Proc. Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2007.

30.                            

R. Gal, O, Sorkine, T., Popa, A. Sheffer, D. Cohen-Or, 3D Collage: Expressive Non-Realistic Modeling, Proc. International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR), 2007.

31.                            

D. Julius, T. Popa, A. Sheffer, Material Aware Mesh Deformation, Proc. IEEE Shape Modelling International (SMI), 2006.

32.                            

V.Kraevoy, A. Sheffer, Template Based Mesh Completion, Proc. Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2005.

33.                            

S.Saba, I. Yavneh, C. Gotsman, A. Sheffer, Practical Spherical Embedding of Manifold Triangle Meshes, Proc. IEEE Shape Modelling International (SMI), 2005.

34.                            

A. Sheffer, V. Kraevoy, Pyramid Coordinates for Morphing and Deformation, Proc. Second IEEE International Symposium on 3DPVT (3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission), 2004. (invited)

35.                            

O. Sifri, A. Sheffer, C. Gotsman, Geodesic-Based Surface Remeshing, Proc. 12th International Meshing Roundtable, 2003.

36.                            

A Sheffer, J. Hart, Seamster: Inconspicuous Low-Distortion Texture Seam Layout, Proc. IEEE Visualization 2002 (Vis02), 291-298, 2002.

37.                            

A. Sheffer, Spanning Tree Seams for Reducing Parameterization Distortion of Triangulated Surfaces, Proc. IEEE Shape Modelling International, 61-66, 2002.

38.                            

J. Liesen, E. de Sturler, A. Sheffer, Y. Aydin, C. Siefert, Preconditioners for Indefinite Linear Systems Arising in Surface Parameterization, Proc. 10th International Meshing Round Table, 71-82, 2001.

39.                            

A. Sheffer, A. Ungor, Efficient Adaptive Meshing of Parametric Models, Proc. Sixth ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling '01), 59-70, 2001.

40.                            

A. Sheffer, E. de Sturler, Surface Parameterization for Meshing by Triangulation Flattening. Proc. 9th International Meshing Roundtable, 161-172, 2000.

41.                            

A. Ungor, A. Sheffer, Tent-Pitcher: A Meshing Algorithm for Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin Methods. Proc. 9th International Meshing Roundtable, 111-122, 2000.

42.                            

A. Sheffer, M. Etzion, A. Rappoport, M. Bercovier, Hexahedral Mesh Generation Using the Embedded Voronoi Graph, Proc. 7th International Meshing Roundtable, 347-364, 1998.

43.                            

Sheffer, A., Blacker, T. and Bercovier, M., CAD Data Repair Based on Virtual Topology, Proc. of DETC'98, 1998 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC98/DAC-5566, 1-10. 1998.

44.                            

A. Sheffer, T. Blacker, M. Bercovier, Virtual Topology Operators for Meshing, Proc. 6th International Meshing Roundtable, 49-66, 1997.

45.                            

A. Sheffer, T. Blacker, J. Clements, M. Bercovier, Virtual Topology Construction and Applications. Geometric Modeling: Theory and Practice, Eds. Strasser, Klein, Rau, Springer-Verlag, 247-259, 1997.

46.                            

A. Rappoport, A. Sheffer, M. Bercovier, Volume Preserving Free Form Solids. Proc. Third ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling '95), 361-372, 1995.

 

Refereed Abstracts/Posters

 

47.                            

V. Kraevoy, A. Sheffer, Variational meaningful shape decomposition, SIGGRAPH 2006, technical sketch.

48.                            

R. Gal, O. Sorkine, T. Popa, A. Sheffer, D. Cohen-Or, Non-realistic expressive modeling, SIGGRAPH 2006, technical sketch.

49.                            

V. Kraevoy, A. Sheffer, Boneless Motion Reconstruction, SIGGRAPH 2005, technical sketch.

50.                            

D. Julius V. Kraevoy A. Sheffer, Real Toys from Virtual Models, SIGGRAPH 2005, technical sketch.

51.                            

T. Popa, D. Julius, A. Sheffer, Material Aware Mesh Deformations, SIGGRAPH 2005, Posters, Winner of the ACM student research competition.

52.                            

V. Kraevoy, A. Sheffer, Shape Preserving Mesh Deformation, SIGGRAPH 2004, technical sketch.

53.                            

A. Rappoport, A. Sheffer, M. Bercovier, Volume Preserving Free Form Solids. SIGGRAPH 1994, technical sketch.

 

Books/Book Chapters/Non-Refereed Proceedings

(including proc. for refereed conferences with100% acceptance rate)

 

54.                            

A. Sheffer, K. Polthier, editors, Symposium on Geometry Processing 2006, (SGP 06), Eurographics/ACM Siggraph 2006.

55.                            

A Sheffer, C. Gotsman, N. Dyn, Robust Spherical Parameterization of Triangular Meshes, Proc. 4th Israel-Korea Bi-National Conference on Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics, 94-99,2003.

56.                            

A. Sheffer, Non-Optimal Parameterization and User Control, Curve and Surface Design: St Malo 2002, Eds. T. Lyche, L.L. Mazure, L. L. Schumaker, VU Press, 355-364, 2003.

57.                            

A. Sheffer, E. de Sturler, Parameterization of CAD Surfaces for Meshing by Triangulation Flattening. Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulation, Eds. Soni, Hauser, Thompson, Eiseman, 699-708, 2000.

58.                            

A. Ungor, A. Sheffer, R. Haber, Space-Time Meshes for Non-linear Hyperbolic Problems Satisfying a Non-uniform Cone Constraint. Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulation, Eds. Soni, Hauser, Thompson, Eiseman, 375-384, 2000.

59.                            

A. Sheffer, T. Blacker and M. Bercovier, Steps Towards Smooth CAD-FEM Integration.  Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulation, Eds. Cross, Eiseman, Hauser, Soni, Thompson, ISGG, 705-714, 1998.

60.                            

T. Blacker, A. Sheffer, J. Clements, M. Bercovier, Using Virtual Topology to Simplify the Mesh Generation Process. Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation, ASME Press, 45-50, 1997.

61.                            

A. Sheffer, T. Blacker, M. Bercovier, Clustering: Automated Detail Suppression Using Virtual Topology. Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation, ASME Press, 57-64, 1997. Also Proc. Israel-Korea Bi-National Conference on New Themes in Computerized Geometric Modeling, 111-116, 1998.

 

 Grants/Awards/Fellowships Received

 

2007-2008

Extraction of Terrain and Vegetation Layers from LIDAR Data, GEOIDE NCE, PI

2007-2012

Digital Geometry Processing Tools, Discovery Grant, NSERC, PI

2006-

Mathematical Surface Representations for Conceptual Design, MITACS NCE, Co-PI

2006

IBM Faculty Award

2006

Direct Multi-Touch Interaction for a Very Large Wall Display, NSERC, RTI, Co-PI

2005-2006

GEOREP: Geometrical representations for computer graphics, Inria (France) Cooperative Research Initiatives, Co-PI.

2003-2007

Digital Geometry Processing Tools, Discovery Grant, NSERC, PI

2002

Multidimensional Visualization and Analysis of Medical Imaging.
IBM Shared University Research (SUR) grant. Co-PI

2002-2003

Foundations of Virtual Reality and Medical Applications, Ministry of Science (MOST), Israel, Co-PI

2002-2003

Improving Display Quality of Military Simulation, Institute for Future Defense Research, Israel, Co-PI

2000-2001  

Surface Smoothness Parameterization Studies, Sandia National Laboratories, USA, Co-PI

Feb – Jul 1997

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chateaubriand Visiting Scholar Fellowship

 

Students

 

 In Progress

 

 

Postdoc 2007-

Hongbo Fu

 

 

PhD 2004-

Tiberius Popa

 

 

MSc 2007-

Cody Robson

MSc 2007-

Ian South-Dickinson

MSc 2007-

Qingnan (James) Zhou

MSc 2007-

Xi Chen

MSc 2006-

Xianglong (Steven) Chang  (co-supervised by M. Van de Panne)

 

Graduated

 

 

PostDoc 2008

Vladislav Kraevoy (Sep. 2007 – Jan 2008)

 

 

PhD 2007

Vladislav Kraevoy

 

 

MSc 2007

Kenneth Rose

MSc 2006

Dan Julius

MSc 2005

Shadi Saba (co-supervised by I. Yavneh and C. Gotsman) (Technion)

MSc 2004

Maxim Mogilnitski  (Technion)

MSc 2003

Vladislav Kraevoy (co-supervised by C. Gotsman) (Technion)

MSc 2003

Oren Sifri  (co-supervised by C. Gotsman) (Technion)

MSc 2003

Roni Raab  (co-supervised by C. Gotsman) (Technion)

 

Invited Talks

 

Conference Plenary/Panel

 

·                     

Developable Surfaces: Approximate and Direct Modeling, Polyhedral surfaces and industrial applications, Strobl, Austria, 2007, invited speaker.

·                     

IEEE Shape Modeling International, June 2006, invited plenary speaker.

·                     

Constrained Parameterization or I Have a Hammer, Give Me a Nail, Imagina 2005 (23rd European Digital Content Creation Conference), 2005, invited speaker/panelist.

Symposia/Workshops/Mini-Symposia

 

·                     

Shuffler: Modeling with Interchangeable Parts, Ayia-Napa Summer Seminar, Recent Results in Rendering and Modeling in Computer Graphics, 2006, invited.

·                     

Template Based Mesh Completion, Dagstuhl  Seminar on Geometric Modelling, 2005, invited.

·                     

Pyramid Coordinates for Morphing and Deformation, Second International Symposium on 3DPVT (3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission), September, 2004, invited.

·                     

3D Matchmaker: Constrained mapping in 3D,  Minisymposium on Surface Mesh Parameterization, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design & Computing, November, 2003

·                     

Smoothing an Overlay Grid to Minimize Linear Distortion in Texture Mapping

Workshop on Geometric Modeling and Animation, FoCM'02, August 2002

·                     

Applying Texture to Models with High Curvature Using Seam Cutting

First UK-Israel Symposium on Computer Graphics, April 2002

·                     

Surface Parameterization and Seam Cutting, Israel SIGGRAPH chapter meeting, December 2001

·                     

Angle Based Flattening of Tessellated Surfaces, Minisymposium on Surface Parameterization in Computer Graphics, CAD and CAE, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, November 2001

·                     

Geometric and Solid Modeling Tutorial, Short Course, 9th International Meshing Roundtable, October 2000

·                     

Towards the Solution of Fundamental Issues in CAD-FEM Integration

4th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, 1998

 

Peer-Reviewed Tutorials

 

·                     

Co-organizer and speaker: Mesh Parameterization: Theory and Practice, A. Sheffer, K. Hormann, B. Levy, M. Desbrun, K. Zhou, Full-day course, SIGGRAPH 2007

Colloquia

 

·                     

Contour-based Modeling Using Deformable 3D Templates,

·      Berliner Colloquium für Wissenschaftliche Visualisierung, July 2007.

·                     

Developable Surfaces from Arbitrary Sketched Boundaries, 

·      Freie University, Berlin, June 2007.

·      Columbia University, New-York, February 2007

·                     

Shuffler: Modeling with Interchangeable Parts,

·       Washington University in St. Louis, September 2006

·      University of Toronto, July 2006

·      The University of Tokyo, June 2006

·       University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February, 2006

·                     

Fundamentals of Spherical Parameterization for 3D Meshes,

·      Institute of Applied Mathematics, UBC, March 2004

·                     

Mapping Textures to Models,

·      University of Washington, December, 2003

·      Hebrew University, Israel, December 2003

·      SFU, November 2003

·                     

Seamster: Inconspicuous Low-Distortion Texture Seam Layout

·      NYU, October 2002

·                     

Sweatshop: Ironing and Cutting (Parameterization of Surface Meshes)

·      University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2002

·      University of British Columbia, May 2002

·      INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis,  June 2002

·      GRIS, University of Tubingen, July 2002

·      IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, October 2002

·      University of New Mexico, September 2003

·                     

Parameterization of Faceted Surfaces by Angle Based Triangulation,

·      College of William and Mary, September 2001

·                     

Parameterization of Faceted Surfaces by Triangulation Flattening,

·      Math Department, CMU, January 2001

·                     

Tent-Pitcher: A Meshing Algorithm for Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin Methods,

·      University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 2000

·                     

Parameterization of CAD Surfaces for Meshing Triangulation Flattening

·      Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, July 2000

·                     

Generation of Space-Time Meshes Obeying the Cone Constraint

·      Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 2000

·                     

Gambit Pre-processor Tutorial

·      Hutchinson Research Center, Montargis, France, December 1998

·                     

Steps Towards Smooth CAD-FEM Integration

·      Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), May 1998

·      Technion, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, June 1998

·                     

Virtual Topology Operators for Meshing

·      INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, May 1997

·      Université Claude Bernard, LYON 1, France, June 1997

 

 

Other Professional Activities

 

Program/Organizing committee chairing

 

·                     

Program Co-Chair, Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2006

·                     

Program Co-Chair, 4th Israel-Korea Bi-National Conference on Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics, February 2003

·                     

Organizing Committee Chair, 10th International Meshing Roundtable, 2001

·                     

Co-Organizer, Mini-symposium on Surface Parameterization in Computer Graphics, CAD and CAE, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, 2001

·                     

Technical Papers Co-Chair and organizing committee member, 9th International Meshing Roundtable, 2000

 

Program/Paper committee membership

 

·       

Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2003-2008

·       

ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM), 2005-2008

·       

Shape Modeling International (SMI), 2003-2008

·       

ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2008

·       

Geometric Modeling and Processing, 2008

·       

Eurographics, 2004,2007

·       

ACM SIGGRAPH, 2005

·       

Pacific Graphics, 2005,2006

·                     

SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, 2005,2007

·                     

Graphics Interface, 2005

·                     

Computer Graphics International, 2005

·                     

International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG ) 2004, 2005

 

Editor/Editorial Board Member

 

·                     

Computers and Graphics, Associate editor (2007), Editorial board member  (2008-).

 

Guest editor

 

·                     

Computer Graphics Forum , Special Theme on Geometry Processing,

Edited by Alla Sheffer and Konrad Polthier, 2007.

·                     

International Journal of Shape Modeling, Special issue from 4th Israel-Korea Bi-National Conference on Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics,  2003

·                     

Engineering with Computers, Special issue on unstructured mesh generation, 2002

 

Referee for journals (incomplete list)

 

 

ACM Transactions on Graphics

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

International Journal of Shape Modeling

Computer Aided Design (CAD)

International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications (IJCGA)

International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering

Engineering with Computers

Physical Review Special Topics

Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

 

Reviewer for conferences (incomplete list)

 

 

SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, IEEE Visualization,

Eurographics Symposium on Rendering,

ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry,

ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphic,

ACM/Siggraph Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications,

International Meshing Roundtable, Pacific Graphics,

Graphics Interface, NPAR,

ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences,

US National Congress on Computational Mechanics.