You want to know how object shape is represented and manipulated for animation movies, medical surgery planning and support, or object recognition by computers? If you're a last-year university student in engineering, mathematics, or physics, you can subscribe to ETH's Summer School 2000 on Shape. During a 3-day course experts in computer vision and graphics will lead you through the geometry and statistics needed for such technology.

The Summer School is held at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland's 'little big city'. Course notes, meals and accommodation are fully covered by the registration fee of 150 CHF. The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 25, on a first-come first-served basis. The lectures are given in English. The summer school is supported by the Graduate School on Computation, Geometry, and Combinatorics, a joint initiative of ETH Zurich and the Technical University of Berlin.

The courses will be given by several ETH professors: Markus Gross (graphics, shape representations), Bernt Schiele (vision, image based recognition), Gabor Szekely (medical imaging, manipulation of 3D shapes), and Luc Van Gool (vision, Invariant based recognition and registration). Dr. Marc Pollefeys of the University of Leuven is the guest speaker of this year's Summer School. He will explain the latest techniques to build 3D models from video and movie sequences, and their use for virtual and augmented reality, special effects for movies, etc.

The Summer School includes an excursion on thursday 7 september. We start with a trip to the top of mount Rigi, from where one has a magnificent panoramic view over lake Lucerne ('Vierwaldstättersee'). Next, we cross the lake by boat, to visit the charming city of Lucerne with its world-famous wooden bridges and ultramodern conference center. Also in Lucerne dinner will be served. The excursion is included in the registration fee.