Seminar “SOFA: an open-source solution for collaborations, prototyping and innovation in simulation”

Lecturer.  Dr. Hugo TALBOT, PhD

Abstract. As in many engineering sectors, numerical simulation has become invaluable, namely for medical education, therapy planning, and implant design. However, simulation softwares remain expensive and require a high level of expertise to be used correctly and effectively. SOFA (Software Open Framework Architecture) is an open-source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. This innovative and collaborative tool is developed by a worldwide community of experts in physics simulations and gathers about 12 years of scientific research. Both academic and industrial developers create their own proprietary simulations based on SOFA, benefiting from its LGPL license. Many research centers actively work and publish using SOFA while five startups have been created for the last five years. This talk will present you SOFA, how to use it and the various fields of applications.

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