Tim Rowley and Ke-Sen Huang jointly maintain an updated list of upcoming SIGGRAPH papers as they get posted. Apparently there were 108 papers accepted this year, so odds are a healthy chunk of those will be filed under physics-based animation.
SIGGRAPH 2007 papers on the web
So far:
- A Finite Element Method for Animating Large Viscoplastic Flow
- Many-Worlds Browsing for Control of Multibody Dynamics
- Simulation of Bubbles in Foam With The Volume Control Method
- Adaptively Sampled Particle Fluids
- FastLSM: Fast Lattice Shape Matching for Robust Real-Time Deformation
- Volume Conserving Finite Element Simulation of Deformable Models
- Wrinkled Flames and Cellular Patterns
- Curl-Noise for Procedural Fluid Flow
- A Variational Approach to Eulerian Geometry Processing
- A Fast Variational Framework for Accurate Solid-Fluid Coupling
- Continuous Collision Detection for Articulated Models using Taylor Models and Temporal Culling
- TRACK: Toward Directable Thin Shells
- Isosurface Stuffing: Fast Tetrahedral Meshing with Good Dihedral Angles
- Efficient Simulation of Inextensible Cloth