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Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!oxuniv!malcolm From: malcolm@vax.oxford.ac.uk Newsgroups: ox.general,uk.events,comp.graphics Subject: (EGUK) Diary of coming graphics events Message-ID: <1992Aug27.144125.8536@vax.oxford.ac.uk> Date: 27 Aug 92 13:41:25 GMT Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620 Lines: 849 This diary is available on JANET at any time in section K3B3 of the NISS Bulletin Board. It has an unashamed bias towards events that people in the UK are likely to attend. Contributions for this diary should be sent to: JANET: malcolm@uk.ac.oxford.vax Internet: malcolm@vax.oxford.ac.uk EARN/BITNET: malcolm%uk.ac.oxford.vax@ukacrl ------------------------- page 1 -------------------------- This diary of forthcoming graphics events is maintained by Malcolm@Oxford.vax on behalf of the Eurographics UK Chapter Last addition (Aug 92): EGUK tutorials, GraphiCon'92, CGI'93 EGUK conference: call for papers Further details (if available) appear on the indicated page. PAGE DATE-1992 VENUE EVENT 11-19 Sep 28 Nottingham EGUK tutorial, Geographical Information Systems 20-29 Sep 29-30 Nottingham UNIRAS UK User Group, Annual Conference (NB Sept/Oct is out of sequence to keep EG events together) ... continues ------------------------- page 2 -------------------------- Diary of forthcoming graphics events ... (NB Sept/Oct is out of sequence to keep EG events together) - Sep 5-6 Cambridge EG Workshop, Animation and Simulation - Sep 5-6 Cambridge EG Workshop, Hardware - Sep 7-11 Cambridge Eurographics '92 30-37 Oct 28-30 Champery EG Workshop, Switzerland Object-Oriented Graphics (NB Sept/Oct is out of sequence to keep EG events together) ... continues ------------------------- page 3 -------------------------- Diary of forthcoming graphics events ... (NB Sept/Oct is out of sequence to keep EG events together) PAGE DATE-1992 VENUE EVENT - Sep 28- Moscow GraphiCon'92 Oct 2 - Oct 12-16 Bonn } ERCIM (CWI/INRIA/GMD/RAL) - Nov 16-20 Rennes } Principles and Practice of Advanced User-Interfaces 11-19 Oct 28 York EGUK tutorial, Introduction to Motif 11-19 Nov 20 Abingdon EGUK tutorial, Colour ... Perception, Modelling and Display ... continues ------------------------- page 4 -------------------------- Diary of forthcoming graphics events ... PAGE DATE-1993 VENUE EVENT 38-40 Feb 22-26 Bombay ICCG93 41-49 Mar 30- York Eurographics UK conference Apr 1 - Jun 17-18 Geneva Computer Animation '93 - Jun 21-25 Lausanne CG International '93 - Sep 6-10 Barcelona Eurographics '93 * Organisation contacts follow, then event details * ------------------------- page 5 -------------------------- Contact for Eurographics UK Chapter ======================= The secretary: Eliot Chiat Computing Services University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN Email: secretary@uk.co.eg-uk ^^ NB co, not ac. For specific events, please email to: either: conference@uk.co.eg-uk or: tutorial@uk.co.eg-uk ------------------------- page 6 -------------------------- Contact for Eurographics ============ Either: Eurographics Association PO Box 16 CH-1288 Aire-la-Ville Switzerland or: Roger Hubbold Computer Science Department University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Email: hubbold@uk.ac.man.cs ------------------------- page 7 -------------------------- Contact for BCS Computer Graphics & Displays Group ====================================== Public relations: Mr R. D. Parslow 6 Ormond Avenue Hampton-on-Thames Middlesex TW12 2RU Further information, programmes etc: Dr R. A. Earnshaw Head of Graphics University of Leeds LEEDS LS2 9JT Email: eclrae@uk.ac.leeds.cms1 ------------------------- page 8 -------------------------- Contact for ERCIM activities: ERCIM Domaine de Voluceau BP 105 F-78153 Le Chesnay Cedex France Tel: (+33) 1 3963 5378 Fax: (+33) 1 3963 5330 Email: ercim@inria.inria.fr ------------------------- page 9 -------------------------- Contact for GINO Users Group ================ Meetings Secretary: Eliot Chiat Computing Services University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN Email: E.Chiat@uk.ac.sheffield.primea ------------------------- page 10 -------------------------- Contact for UNIRAS UK User Group ==================== The secretary: Rob Fletcher Computing Service University of York Heslington York YO1 5DD Email: rpf1@uk.ac.york ------------------------- page 11 -------------------------- EUROGRAPHICS UK Autumn 1992 Tutorial Programme Each year the UK Chapter of EUROGRAPHICS offers a popular programme of full-day tutorials covering a range of computer graphics-related topics. There are 3 tutorials in this year's autumn programme: "GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS" Michael McCullagh and David Ebdon Monday 28 September 1992, at the University of Nottingham. "INTRODUCTION TO MOTIF" John Wexler and Bob McGonigle Wednesday 28 October, at the University of York. "COLOUR PERCEPTION, MODELLING AND DISPLAY" Lindsay Macdonald Friday 20 November 1992, at Cosenor's House, Abingdon. ... continues ------------------------- page 12 -------------------------- EGUK tutorials ... The fee for each tutorial is 75 pounds for EUROGRAPHICS members, and 90 pounds for non-members. This fee includes lunch, refreshments and tutorial notes. To make your booking please contact: Roy Platon Central Computing Division Atlas Centre Rutherford Appleton Lab Chilton Didcot OX11 0QX Tel: 0(+44)235 445764 Fax: 0(+44)235 445808 Email: rtp@uk.ac.rl.ib or tutorial@uk.co.eg-uk Details of each tutorial are given below. ... continues ------------------------- page 13 -------------------------- EGUK tutorials ... 1. GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (Michael McCullagh and David Ebdon) Monday 28 September 1992, at the University of Nottingham. The topics covered during the day will be: - Digital Terrain Models (DTMs), generation, and applications in the GIS world - modelling problems using DTMs and derived mapping such as slope and aspect data - remote sensing imagery, geology, and soil - diverse applications as exploration and planning; intervisibility models, development and use in planning problems; use of graphic information systems on small computers (PC) to display and analyse local (crime!) data. ... continues ------------------------- page 14 -------------------------- EGUK tutorials ... MICHAEL J. MCCULLAGH is Lecturer in Geography, University of Nottingham. Is research interests are digital terrain modelling software development, GIS, and general quantitative methods. He is the author of the Panacea terrain modelling package available on PCs and larger machines. DAVID S. EBDON is Lecturer in Geography at the same University and author of several books on statistics and the use of quantitative methods in Geography. His research interests in applications of GIS in a wide variety of fields stretching from local police crime records to the distribution of dunlin in Scotland, forestry in Buckinghamshire, and people in Spain. ... continues ------------------------- page 15 -------------------------- EGUK tutorials ... 2. INTRODUCTION TO MOTIF (John Wexler and Bob McGonigle) Wednesday 28 October, at the University of York. This tutorial is a technical course, based on courseware developed at the Computing Services of the University of Edinburgh, in conjunction with IXI Ltd of Cambridge. The tutorial is aimed at people who will program or port applications to use Motif and X, or people who need to know how to do that even if they will not be doing it themselves. The prerequisites for the course are familiarity with Unix, C programming and user experience of a WIMP interface. ... continues ------------------------- page 16 -------------------------- EGUK tutorials ... The tutorial will introduce the basic Motif concepts, and will describe the details of callbacks and resources. Basic widgets, such as MainWindow and ScrolledList, and the use of PulldownMenus, will be covered. A guide to using the Motif documentation will also be given. A practical to illustrate these basic concepts will be run. This is the first of two Motif tutorials in the Eurographics programme.The second tutorial, BEYOND THE MOTIF BASICS, will be held in early 1993, and will continue from the first, covering further widgets, and mechanisms such as actions and translations. JOHN WEXLER works at the Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre. His special interests are operating systems, concurrent systems, and software engineering. His is the author of "Concurrent Programming in occam 2". ... continues ------------------------- page 17 -------------------------- EGUK tutorials ... 3. COLOUR PERCEPTION, MODELLING AND DISPLAY (Lindsay Macdonald) Friday 20 November 1992, at Cosenor's House, Abingdon. This tutorial will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of the perception and use of colour in computer graphics and imaging applications. The morning sessions will provide an overview of how we see, organise and model colour, with reference to recent research into colour appearance modelling. The afternoon sessions will deal with displays and printing processes, with practical techniques ... continues ------------------------- page 18 -------------------------- EGUK tutorials ... for calibration and colour control, plus guidelines for making the best use of colour for the presentation of information in displays. The tutorial comprises four modules, as follows: - Light, colour and human vision - Colour appearance and modelling - Reproduction of colour in display and print - Guidelines for using colour effectively in displays ... continues ------------------------- page 19 -------------------------- EGUK tutorials ... LINDSAY MACDONALD is a Senior Consultant at Crosfield Electronics Ltd., the world's leading supplier of electronic pre-press systems for high quality reproduction of images in print. His interests lie in colour modelling, computer graphics, image processing and user interface design and he is the holder of 16 patents in these fields. He was project manager of the CARISMA research project in collaboration with Loughborough University, supported by the DTI under the IEATP programme. He is also a member of the BSI committee shadowing the development of ISO 9241 on the Ergonomics of Visual Display Terminals and was invited recently by the EC to serve as a technical evaluator for proposals in Esprit III. He is a member of both BCS and IEE. ------------------------- page 20 -------------------------- UNIRAS UK USER GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE University of Nottingham, 29-30 September PROGRAMME Tuesday 29 September 11.00 CHEST User Forum 12.00 Lunch 13.30 Three parallel tutorial sessions - Choosing a colour hard copy device by Roy Middleton - Writing an agX application using Motif by Bob McGonigle - Unigraph macros by Rob Fletcher 15.00 Tea 15.30 Repeat of the three parallel tutorial sessions above ... continues ------------------------- page 21 -------------------------- UNIRAS UK USER GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE ... Wednesday 30 September 09.30 A View of Visualization by Ken Brodlie This talk will give a general overview of scientific visualization, describing how it has grown out of the established field of computer graphics. It will discuss the underlying methodology that has emerged, and will review the main software systems that have been developed. Finally, the limitations of existing systems will be pointed out, and some pointers to the future given. ... continues ------------------------- page 22 -------------------------- UNIRAS UK USER GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE ... 10.15 AGOCG Visualisation Support and Future Activities by Steve Larkin As the UK academic community in general were taking an interest in the emerging software for visualisation AGOCG provided funding for a Visualisation Support Post over an initial period ending in April 1993. The aim during this period is to raise the awareness and promote the use of visualisation systems throughout the UK. The talk will report on the activities which have been organised and will outline the forthcoming events for the remainder of 1992/3. Any suggestions from the audience during the talk for additional activities and areas of interest are also encouraged. ... continues ------------------------- page 23 -------------------------- UNIRAS UK USER GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE ... 10.30 Coffee 11.00 Visualisation and other UNIRAS Futures by Mikael Jern Content to be confirmed. 11.50 Annual General Meeting 12.00 Lunch 13.30 UNIRAS in Europe by Paul Sloane Content to be confirmed. 13.40 agX Widgets by Klaus Landsberg Content to be confirmed. ... continues ------------------------- page 24 -------------------------- UNIRAS UK USER GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE ... 14.20 The Good (Reality), the Bad (Sampled Data Set), and the Ugly (Contour Plot) by John Szymanski UNIRAS offers both the expert and the non-expert user a wide range of powerful tools for the manipulation and presentation of discrete data sets. Particularly convenient for the beginner or non-expert is the fact that the system is easy to use and has a set of reasonable defaults incorporated to allow the automatic production of displays with the minimum of operator intervention. Implicit within UNIRAS, however, is the assumption that the data is broadly `reasonable' and that the default values will cope with most cases that are likely to arise. This paper examines some of the dangers facing the non-expert user who supplies UNIRAS with a two-dimensional data set of variable sampling density ... continues ------------------------- page 25 -------------------------- UNIRAS UK USER GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE ... and data quality. The particular application area addressed is that of archaeological site investigation, where particularly `interesting' data sets arise not only from topographical studies of the site, but also from geophysical methods which probe beneath the surface and provide indirect evidence of buried features. 14.40 Contour Mapping at Sea by Andrew Cormack RVS supports the NERC fleet of scientific research vessels including Sun computer systems carried on the ships. These systems are used to collect and archive data from scientific and navigational instruments and to provide rapid visualisation of the data enabling the scientists on board to identify areas of particular interest. ... continues ------------------------- page 26 -------------------------- UNIRAS UK USER GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE ... Two dimensional line contour plots were first produced during the EEC North Sea Project in 1988/9 using the UniMap package in a 'batch' mode. These were found to be very useful and the system has since been developed to improve its speed and facilities. The contouring program now calls Uniras library routines to generate line or colour-fill maps in two or three dimensions as specified on a series of menus. Values for the maps are read directly from the data files to which instruments are logged thus allowing contour maps to be generated in near real-time. Contour maps can be generated from any data collected over a surface such as a vertical or horizontal plane or, for example, a constant temperature surface. Time series data can also be presented in the same form. Recent examples include surveys of ocean eddies and fronts, plankton blooms, river outflows and tidal currents. ... continues ------------------------- page 27 -------------------------- UNIRAS UK USER GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE ... 15.00 Tea 15.30 Uses of graphics in Meteorology by Charles Duncan The types of meteorological data are described together with differing graphical approaches to subsequent rendering. The value of interaction with data is particularly highlighted, and the required data manipulations are described. 15.50 Closing remarks 16.00 Close ... continues ------------------------- page 28 -------------------------- UNIRAS UK USER GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE ... EXHIBITION The theme for the 1992 UUUG Conference Exhibition is hardware, with a number of commercial vendors demonstrating workstations, X-Terminals and Plotters. The exhibition runs parallel with the main session on Wednesday 30th Spetember and provides an informal opportunity to discuss and see the latest technology with a number of leading graphics vendors. GENERAL INFORMATION The conference will take place in the Social Science building on the Nottingham University campus. The accommodation is in the Hugh Stewart hall of residence, which is immediately adjacent. Maps of the campus, and approaches to it from the main roads will be sent with the booking confirmations. There is a large car park between the Social science building and the hall of residence, and other car parks nearby. ... continues ------------------------- page 29 -------------------------- UNIRAS UK USER GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE ... The full conference fee covers lunches on the Tuesday and Wednesday, the conference dinner and bed and breakfast for one night. The day fee is for people who only wish to attend on Wednesday, and/or do not require accommodation. Please note the surcharge for non-members of the user-group. Any enquiries can be addressed to: Dr. Colin Bannister Cripps Computing Centre University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham NG7 2RD Email Colin_Bannister@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vme Fax (0602) 588138 ------------------------- page 30 -------------------------- Third Eurographics Workshop on Object-Oriented Graphics CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Champery, Switzerland, 28-30 October 1992 Aims and Scope: At past workshops it has been noted that people in the graphics community are addressing a wide variety of problems: surface modeling, rendering, animation, interaction, multiple media, constraints, etc. At the same time, it has also been noted that people share similar concerns in the areas of software reuse, extensibility and maintenance. This workshop will be an effort to identify such common concerns and to devise solutions that benefit a wide spectrum of research domains within the interactive graphics community. The goal of the workshop is to outline a common platform, based on a set of object-oriented ... continues ------------------------- page 31 -------------------------- EG workshop "Object-Oriented Graphics" ... primitives, for the support of graphics applications. To this end, each submission should be motivated by at least one of the following questions: 1. If my programming environment were to provide an object-oriented platform, what kind of support would I ask from it for my particular domain of interest? 2. As a designer of an object-oriented platform, how would it support object-oriented graphics? Here, the term object-oriented platform should be taken in a broad sense; it may encompass any kind of functionality to support graphics applications, even non-graphic primitives such as support for persistent objects, concurrency, etc. The following non-exhaustive list provides some typical issues that could be discussed: ... continues ------------------------- page 32 -------------------------- EG workshop "Object-Oriented Graphics" ... - support of reuse and extensibility in graphics systems, - concurrency and distribution support for graphics applications, - standards for data exchange such as geometric primitives, scripts, sound and video, - the integration of constraints in graphics systems, - the binding of input/output activities to objects and user interaction, - encapsulation as a mechanism for interoperability of graphics applications, - object-oriented "wrapping" of existing graphics kernels. ... continues ------------------------- page 33 -------------------------- EG workshop "Object-Oriented Graphics" ... Full Papers: Please submit 4 copies of papers (10-20 single sided pages, 200 word abstract) for review by the programme committee. Accepted papers will be reproduced in the workshop proceedings. Invitations to submit revised versions for a book (in the EurographicSeminars Series of Springer) will depend on the quality of the contributions. Shorter position papers (1-2 pages) may be accepted according to their relevance to the workshop. Questions concerning the suitability of papers should be addressed to the organizers. ... continues ------------------------- page 34 -------------------------- EG workshop "Object-Oriented Graphics" ... Workshop Format: The workshop will be limited to 60 participants. To encourage discussion, at least two types of presentations are foreseen: 1) full paper presentations and 2) presentations of the results from small group discussions. Equipment for document and transparency preparation will be made available. The results of the workshop may also be reproduced in the book if the participants and editors feel they are appropriate. ... continues ------------------------- page 35 -------------------------- EG workshop "Object-Oriented Graphics" ... Schedule: 31 May 1992 Deadline for paper submission. 15 August 1992 Notification of acceptance of papers. 28-30 October 1992 Workshop 15 January 1993 Deadline for revised papers. Venue and Fee: The workshop will be held in Champery, Switzerland. The fee will be about SFr. 700 including accommodation and meals. Limited funds for subsidizing students may be available. ... continues ------------------------- page 36 -------------------------- EG workshop "Object-Oriented Graphics" ... Organization: The workshop is organized by Vicki de Mey and Xavier Pintado of the Centre Universitaire d'Informatique (University of Geneva) and promoted by Eurographics. The book will be edited by Wm Leler of Ithaca Software, Vicki de Mey and Xavier Pintado. Programme Committee: C. Bass (USA), E. Blake (NL), J. van den Bos (NL), N. Craighill (USA), S. Cunningham (USA), A. van Dam (USA), E. Fiume (CA), B. Freeman-Benson (USA), M. Katevenis (GR), C. Laffra (NL), N. Magnenat Thalmann (CH), A. Pavanello (USA), J. Rankin (AU), T. Takala (FI), K. Turkowski (USA), R. Turner (CH), P. Wisskirschen (DE). ... continues ------------------------- page 37 -------------------------- EG workshop "Object-Oriented Graphics" ... Address: Eurographics Workshop on Object-Oriented Graphics Centre Universitaire d'Informatique 12 rue du Lac CH-1207 Geneva SWITZERLAND Phone: 41 (22) 787 65 86 Fax: 41 (22) 735 39 05 E-mail: eoog@cui.unige.ch ------------------------- page 38 -------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPER ICCG93 International Conference on Computer Graphics: Interaction, Design, Modelling and Visualization February 22-26, 1993 Bombay, India organised by International Federation for Information Processing(IFIP): TC5 - WG5.2 & WG5.10 Computer Society of India (CSI) ... continues ------------------------- page 39 -------------------------- ICCG93, Bombay ... CONFERENCE THEMES Graphical Interaction Design and Modelling Rendering and Visualization CONFERENCE TOPICS Graphics and geometric algorithms Modelling curves, surfaces, solids and volumes Physically based modelling Interactive design and user interfaces Computer animation and visual simulation Global illumination and photorealistic rendering Scientific and multi-dimensional data visualization Image handling and interchange standards Graphics systems and architectures Innovative applications of graphics ... continues ------------------------- page 40 -------------------------- ICCG93, Bombay ... ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON J. P. Narayanan CMC Ltd 2nd Floor, The Arcade, World Trade Centre Cuffe Parade, Bombay 400 021, INDIA Tel: 91 22 2189181 Fax: 91 22 2188149 Telex: 11 83854 CMW IN CONFERENCE SECRATARIAT ICCG93 Secretariat NCST, Gulmohar Cross Road No. 9 Juhu, Bombay 400 049, INDIA Tel: 91 22 6201606 Fax: 91 22 6210139 Telex: 11 78260 NCST IN e-mail: iccg93@ncst.ernet.in ------------------------- page 41 -------------------------- 11th Eurographics UK Conference Call for Contributions Location: University of York, 30th March - 1st April 1993 Conference Themes * The Application of Computer Graphics to Modelling * Electronic Publishing ... continues ------------------------- page 42 -------------------------- EGUK 1993 Conference ... Eurographics UK Conference The Eurographics UK Conference is returning to York for its 10th Anniversary celebrations. York was the venue for the first conference of the UK chapter of Eurographics. The conference will give participants the opportunity to hear about latest advances in the field and to meet with colleagues in this area. Opportunities for informal discussions will be facilitated by the social events at the Castle Museum in the Tuesday and during the Conference Dinner on the Wednesday. ... continues ------------------------- page 43 -------------------------- EGUK 1993 Conference ... Conference Format The conference begins with a day of tutorials relating to the conference themes. The second and third days will be devoted to papers from invited speakers and those accepted by the programme committee which have been submitted for consideration. There will also be an exhibition. Submitting a Paper Papers on any aspect of computer graphics are welcome. These may present research work or may be related to applications of computer graphics or to support issues. ... continues ------------------------- page 44 -------------------------- EGUK 1993 Conference ... The following types of papers may be submitted: - full paper for refereeing and publication in Computer Graphics Forum - abstract of a paper to be presented which may be expanded for publication in the conference proceedings - commercial presentation of new hardware and software All authors will be encouraged to provide full papers for the conference. Presenters of non-commercial papers who submit a full paper will be eligible for the Ken Brodlie Award for the best paper. ... continues ------------------------- page 45 -------------------------- EGUK 1993 Conference ... Important Dates Final Date for paper submission 1st December 1992 Notification of paper acceptance early January 1993 Advance Programme and Booking Details end January 1993 Camera Ready Copy Required 6th February 1993 Conference Dates 30th March - 1st April 1993 Submitting a Paper Although the invited papers will focus on the main themes for the year, papers on any subject relating to computer graphics are welcome. There are 2 types of paper which may be submitted: ... continues ------------------------- page 46 -------------------------- EGUK 1993 Conference ... Refereed papers A full paper must be submitted by the deadline which is 1st December 1992. The papers will be refereed for their suitability for inclusion in Computer Graphics Forum which is the journal of Eurographics. Following the conference, accepted papers will be published in Computer Graphics Forum as well as in the Conference Proceedings. Each paper accepted will entitle the speaker to a single days registration at the conference irrespective of the number of authors. ... continues ------------------------- page 47 -------------------------- EGUK 1993 Conference ... Other submitted papers We also welcome other material which may not be ready or appropriate for publication. This is an opportunity to describe an application that makes interesting or novel use of computer graphics, or to report the early stages of a research project. It is only necessary to provide an abstract of your paper by the closing date of 1st December 1992. We will however encourage you to expand this further for publication in the conference proceedings. Each paper accepted will entitle the authors(s) to a single person-day of free registration. ... continues ------------------------- page 48 -------------------------- EGUK 1993 Conference ... Commercial Presentations and Exhibiting We invite commercial companies to offer presentations of their latest graphics software and hardware as part of the conference programme. We particularly encourage descriptions of new technology areas. This could be accompanied by a demonstration in the exhibition area. If you wish to make a presentation at the conference then an abstract is required by the closing date of 1st December 1992. Please also let us know if you wish to be involved in the exhibition and we will contact you separately regarding this. ... continues ------------------------- page 49 -------------------------- EGUK 1993 Conference ... Getting More Information If you are not currently on our mailing list then please contact the conference local organiser: Dr Rob Fletcher, EGUK'93 Conference), Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD Tel: 0904 433898 Fax: 0904 433740 Email: conference@uk.co.eg-uk