Chang, S-Y AliceEastwood, MichaelOrsted, BentYang, Paul2015-12-070167-8019http://hdl.handle.net/1885/22158Branson's Q-curvature is now recognized as a fundamental quantity in conformal geometry. We outline its construction and present its basic properties.Keywords: Computational geometry; Invariance; Numerical methods; Branson's Q-curvature; Conformal geometry; Graph theory Conformal; Curvature; Invariant200810.1007/s10440-008-9229-z2015-12-07