Conference Program & Resources
The conference took place over two days, from April 10 to 11, 2026 in Marrakech, Morocco.
📸 Group Picture - GMP-X 2026
📍 All participants, speakers and organizers at Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech
📖 Conference Proceedings
📄 GMP-X_2026_Proceedings.pdf (Full volume, 62 pages) ⬇️ Download PDF
🏆 Best Short Paper Award
🎉 Joms Antony – "A learning-assisted algorithmic framework for constructing a generalized Voronoi graph representation in grid space"
The Scientific Committee recognized this work for its innovative integration of geometric modeling principles with deep learning, enabling efficient Voronoi diagram extraction from binary occupancy grids.
Friday, April 10, 2026 - Day 1
| Friday, April 10 | |
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:20 | Opening |
| Session 1 - Hartmut Prautzsch (Chair) | |
| Keynote Talk | |
| 09:20-10:20 | Helmut Pottmann - Quad meshes in sphere geometries |
| Geometry Processing | |
| 10:20-10:40 | Andrea Favilli - Aligning geometry and language in free-form architectural design |
| 10:40-11:00 | Alaa Eddine Bensad - Positive hyperbolic barycentric coordinates for non-convex polygons |
| 11:00-11:20 | Navdeep Singh Bedi - Cage-based dynamic mesh compression |
| 11:20-11:50 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| Session 2 - Konrad Polthier (Chair) | |
| Geometric Deep Learning | |
| 11:50-12:10 | Fadwa Zaidane - Deep learning approaches for inverse problems in parabolic PDEs |
| 12:10-12:30 | Oumaima Bonouali - Physics-informed neural network for T-periodic cooperative parabolic systems |
| 12:30-12:50 | Salma Bakadir - Physics-informed neural networks for solving inverse problem in electro-cardiography |
| 12:50-13:10 | Soumia Ngadi - Neuron-wise variational spline activations |
| 13:10-15:30 | 🕌 Prayer & Lunch Break |
| Session 3 - Mohammed Boucetta (Chair) | |
| Keynote Talk | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Abdellah El kacimi - Frequency domain Bernstein-Bézier finite element solver |
| Numerical Methods | |
| 16:30-16:50 | Mustapha Kzaz - Asymptotic solver for Mathieu equation |
| 16:50-17:10 | Marta Celio - Cubic serendipity coordinates over arbitrary polygonal elements |
| 17:10-17:30 | Manal Naimi - Isogeometric approximation of Laplace eigenvalue problems on the disk |
| 20:00-23:00 | 🍽️ Social Dinner |
Saturday, April 11, 2026 - Day 2
| Saturday, April 11 | |
| Session 4 - Kai Hormann (Chair) | |
| Keynote Talk | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Konrad Polthier - Vibrations of geometric shapes |
| Curves, Surfaces, and Volumes | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Amine Arhandou - RF-based construction of a non-uniform subdivision scheme |
| 10:20-10:40 | Hartmut Prautzsch - Spline orbifold spaces |
| 10:40-11:00 | Luca Garau - Volumetric decomposition for optimized rigid mold disassembly |
| 11:00-11:40 | ☕ Coffee Break & Poster Session |
| Session 5 - Helmut Pottmann (Chair) | |
| Geometric and Visual Computing | |
| 11:40-12:00 | Joms Antony - A learning-assisted algorithmic framework for constructing a generalized Voronoi graph (short paper) |
| 12:00-12:20 | Hajar Lafdili - Dimensionality reduction and Riemannian optimization for face recognition |
| 12:20-12:40 | Ranya Salouani - Adaptive edge detection using symmetric q-derivatives |
| 12:40-13:00 | Diana Marin - Projection-based structural element extraction from point clouds (short paper) |
| 13:00-14:30 | 🍽️ Lunch Break |
| Session 6 - Aziz Ikemakhen (Chair) | |
| Keynote Talk | |
| 14:30-15:30 | Mohammed Boucetta - Hermitian structures of tangent bundles |
| Geometric Structures | |
| 15:30-15:50 | Abderrazzak Benroummane - On the concept of symmetry |
| 15:50-16:10 | Fatima-Ezzahrae Abid - Symplectic Leibniz algebras |
| 16:10-16:30 | Hicham Lebzioui - Flat left-invariant Lorentzian metrics |
| 16:30-17:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| Session 7 - Mustapha Kzaz (Chair) | |
| Differential Geometry | |
| 17:00-17:20 | Noura Amri - Natural Ricci solitons on tangent and unit tangent bundles |
| 17:20-17:40 | Oumaima Bradaai - The volume of a vector field on a Riemannian manifold |
| 17:40-18:00 | Closing Ceremony & Best Paper Award |