The SIAM International Meshing Roundtable Workshop 2027 invites full papers submissions for its upcoming conference. The review process will have two phases, and papers may be accepted with or without revisions. If revisions are requested after the first review, authors will need to make specific modifications before final acceptance.
Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the SIAM International Meshing Roundtable with a DOI number and will also be available on the SIAM IMR website. Papers published in SIAM Proceedings starting from the 2024 IMR can be found here. Top submissions will be contacted by the Organizing Committee to contribute an extension to a special issue of a top peer-reviewed journal.
This call is for technical papers which present original and substantial contributions. The IMR also solicits research notes that describe exploratory research and preliminary results, technical posters, and meshing contest submissions.
Please adhere to the formatting and submission instructions for your chosen category and review all guidelines carefully.
Important Dates
Note that deadlines are End of Day, Anywhere on Earth.
- Call for papers: 1 June 2026
- Full paper submission deadline: 14 September 2026
- Preliminary decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection: 16 November 2026
- Final camera-ready papers due: 29 January 2027
Topics
- Mesh Generation and Modification
- Structured, unstructured, block-structured, Cartesian, and hybrid meshing techniques
- High-order finite elements and mesh generation
- Optimal meshing, centroidal Voronoi tessellation
- Mesh adaptation, metrics, and anisotropy
- Mesh refinement, coarsening, smoothing, untangling, optimization, simplification, and compression
- Dynamic mesh modifications such as moving meshes, level set methods, and mesh morphing
- Polygon mesh generation for large models
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Meshing
- Feature recognition and extraction from mesh-based data using deep learning
- Mesh generation and optimization based on reinforcement learning or deep learning
- Mesh generation with neural PDE constraints for numerical simulation
- Mesh representation and generation based on graph neural networks
- Comprehensive evaluation metrics for mesh quality based on deep learning
- Meshing for Scientific and High-Performance Computing
- Meshing algorithms for GPUs
- Parallel mesh data structures
- Mesh partitioning and coloring
- Parallel meshing, mesh streaming, and real-time meshing techniques
- Meshing for cloud computing
- CAD and Computational Geometry Issues for Meshing
- Geometry representation and translation: B-Rep NURBS, implicit surfaces, and volume data
- Surface reconstruction and domain generation
- Geometry preparation: CAD repair/cleanup, simplification, defeaturing, partitioning, decomposition, and imprinting/merging
- Dimension reduction: medial axis transformation, Voronoi diagram, chordal axis transform, mid-surface, and other skeletal representations
- Virtual geometry and topology
- Implications and Applications for Meshing
- Finite element, finite volume analysis and modeling
- Geometric modeling
- Computer graphics and scientific visualization
- Other novel methodology and applications, such as isogeometric analysis
- Solution-driven adaptivity
- Application-specific novel meshing techniques
Policies
- For accepted papers, at least one author must register for the IMR. Participants may be authors of multiple papers.
- Each accepted paper must be presented at the IMR. Each IMR participant will be limited to giving one paper or research note presentation but can be the non-presenting author in other papers or research notes.
- The conference is currently planned to be held in person. Submitters should make themselves aware of the current travel and immigration restrictions/requirements.
- Full papers must have original and significant contributions in order to be accepted. All papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed by reviewers selected by the program committee.
- A completed “authorization to publish” or copyright agreement form will be required after acceptance. Details will be sent to authors of accepted papers.
Submission
Submitting a paper is a two-step process. First, authors must initiate a submission on OpenConf by adding the title, author information, topic areas, and abstract. Authors will then receive an email with the submission ID and can submit their manuscript files to OpenConf using this submission ID and password.
To submit a paper, authors must upload a .zip file to OpenConf.
At the very least, this .zip file must contain the anonymous PDF version of the paper (see the template for details).
Authors are permitted to include supplementary materials with this initial submission, but all submitted files should be anonymized.
The OpenConf submission website has a file size limit of 64 MB, so please ensure your paper (including supplementary material) does not exceed this limit.
The OpenConf submission website will be available in July 2026. All authors and presenters are encouraged to also submit research notes, posters, and meshing contest entries.
Final Camera-Ready Submission
Only PDF files are accepted for the final camera-ready submission and must conform strictly to the formatting guidelines. Final submissions for accepted papers must be received by 29 January, 2027.
Formatting Requirements
Full papers are limited to 12 pages in length (US letter size), including figures, tables, and appendices, but excluding references. Authors are welcome to submit supplementary material, however the paper must be complete without it. Authors are encouraged to make the supplementary material publicly available after acceptance.
Acceptable supplementary material includes:
- Lengthy or detailed experimental results, beyond summaries in the paper itself
- Code or pseudocode
- Datasets: publicly sharing input models so that others can try the proposed algorithms is especially welcome
- Images
- Animations
- Proofs
Authors must use the SIAM two-column template for all submissions, while strictly following the guidelines provided above for each submission type.
Since accepted papers will be published in the SIAM Proceedings, authors must also follow the SIAM Editorial Policy on Artificial Intelligence.
Review Process
The review process is double blind. Please follow these guidelines:
- Do not include author names or affiliations anywhere in the manuscript, or in any supplementary material (or in any file names).
- Do not include any author names in the Acknowledgments section in the manuscript on submission (though please do include information about funding). Author names can be added to the Acknowledgments section after completion of the peer-review process.
- Do not include work in the reference list that has not yet been accepted for publication.
- When referring to your own work within the paper, avoid using terminology that might reveal your identity, e.g., avoid phrases such as “we have previously shown [citation]”.
Authors requiring travel authorization may contact us ahead of time for a preliminary decision. One will be provided when reviewer and advocate comments are received.
Call for Reviewers
The organizing committee of the SIAM IMR27 is looking for reviewers. If you are interested in reviewing one or more papers for the upcoming IMR, please email the Papers Chairs.
Presentation
Each accepted paper will be given 20 minutes for presentation followed by 5 minutes for Q&A.
Contact
If you have questions about the Call for Papers or paper submission process contact:
- Vadym Aizinger, Papers Chair
Universität Bayreuth
Email: vadym.aizinger@uni-bayreuth.de - Philip Caplan, Papers Chair
Middlebury College
Email: pcaplan@middlebury.edu - Roshan Quadros, Papers Chair
Sandia National Laboratories
Email: wrquadr@sandia.gov
