Session 1A: Tetrahedral Meshing 1 -- Sphere Packing and Applications to Granular Structure Modeling -- Triangulation of Simple 3D Shapes with Well-Centered Tetrahedra -- 3D Delaunay Refinement of Sharp Domains without a Local Feature Size Oracle -- Tetrahedral Mesh Generation for Non-rigid Registration of Brain MRI: Analysis of the Requirements and Evaluation of Solutions -- Session 1B: Surface Meshing -- Quadrilateral Meshes with Bounded Minimum Angle -- Automated Quadrilateral Coarsening by Ring Collapse -- The Effect of Vertex Reordering on 2D Local Mesh Optimization Efficiency -- Flattening 3D Triangulations for Quality Surface Mesh Generation -- Session 2A: Adaptivity -- Delaunay-Based Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation -- Anisotropic Level Set Adaptation for Accurate Interface Capturing -- Anisotropic Delaunay Mesh Adaptation for Unsteady Simulations -- Dynamic Parallel Adaption for Three Dimensional Unstructured Meshes: Application to Interface Tracking -- Transient Mesh Adaptivity with Large Rigid-Body Displacements -- Session 2B: Geometry -- Filling Arbitrary Holes in Finite Element Models -- Generation of Spline Approximations to Tessellations -- Conformal Assembly Meshing with Tolerant Imprinting -- Automated Mixed Dimensional Modelling with the Medial Object -- A Mesh-Geometry Based Approach for Mixed-Dimensional Analysis -- Session 3A: Surface Meshing -- Simple and Effective Variational Optimization of Surface and Volume Triangulations -- Simultaneous Aligning and Smoothing of Surface Triangulations -- Accurate Interpolation of Terrain Surfaces from Over-Sampled Grid Data -- GPU-Assisted Surface Reconstruction on Locally-Uniform Samples -- Session 3B: Applications -- Application of Smooth Mixed Meshes Based on Metric Identity in Aerospace Analysis and Design -- High Quality Realtime Tessellation of Trimmed NURBS Surfaces for Interactive Examination of Surface Quality on Car Bodies -- Online Triangulation of Laser-Scan Data -- Quality Meshing of a Forest of Branching Structures -- Session 4A: Hexahedral Meshing -- A New Set of Hexahedral Meshes Local Transformations -- Mesh Matching – Creating Conforming Interfaces between Hexahedral Meshes -- Conformal Meshing of Multiple Domains in Contact -- Subdivision Templates for Converting a Non-conformal Hex-Dominant Mesh to a Conformal Hex-Dominant Mesh without Pyramid Elements -- Local Dual Contributions on Simplices: A Tool for Block Meshing -- Session 5A: Adaptivity -- A Mesh Optimization Algorithm to Decrease the Maximum Error in Finite Element Computations -- Grid Generation and Adaptation by Monge-Kantorovich Optimization in Two and Three Dimensions -- Metric Generation for a Given Error Estimation -- Tracking Adaptive Moving Mesh Refinements in 3D Curved Domains for Large-Scale Higher Order Finite Element Simulations -- Localized Coarsening of Conforming All-Hexahedral Meshes.

This volume contains the articles presented at the 17th International Meshing Roundtable (IMR) organized, in part, by Sandia National Laboratories and held October 12-15, 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. The first IMR was held in 1992, and the conference has been held annually since. Each year the IMR brings together researchers, developers, and application experts, from a variety of disciplines, to present and discuss ideas on mesh generation and related topics. The topics covered by the IMR have applications in numerical analysis, computational geometry, computer graphics, as well as other areas, and the presentations describe novel work ranging from theory to application.