I am a researcher in the Computing Sciences Research Center at Lucent Technologies , Bell Laboratories . Basically computing spot prices from future prices is a lot more stable than vice versa. Consistent parameterizations allow to remesh a group of meshes onto the exact same connectivity. This enables a lot of Digital Geometry Processing algorithms.
Hybrid meshes combine the best features of regular and irregular meshes.
Julien wrote an oustanding thesis on complexity of image and video coding algorithms. More details are on Julien's home page . Amongst many other things he shows that under certain conditions, lifting can speed up the wavelet transform by a factor 4 as opposed to the factor 2 that Ingrid and I showed in our factoring paper . I got promoted to Director, Scientific Computing Research.