[Compgeom-announce] WAFR 2006 Program & Papers available - New York City, July 16-18, 2006

[Nancy Amato <amato@cs.tamu.edu>]

Sorry for duplicates, please join us if you can, and if not,
you can still check out the papers on the web! - Nancy

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                        WAFR 2006
          The 7th International Workshop on the
           Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
                    http://www.wafr.org

                      New York City
                    July 16-18, 2006


The Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) is a
single-track workshop with submitted and invited papers on advances
on algorithmic problems in robotics.

WAFR 2006 has an exciting technical program of 32 papers and a great
slate of invited speakers.

    * James Gimzewski, UCLA
    * Jessica K. Hodgins, CMU
    * Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford
    * Tom·s Lozano-PÈrez, MIT
    * Jacob T. Schwartz, NYU
    * Sebastian Thrun, Stanford

Registration, the technical program (including the papers), and other
information about WAFR is available
http://www.wafr.org/

We hope to see you at WAFR!

Srinivas Akella
Nancy Amato
Wes Huang
Bud Mishra

wafr-chairs@wafr.org



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More about WAFR

The Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) is a
single-track workshop with submitted and invited papers on advances on
algorithmic problems in robotics.

Algorithms are a fundamental component of robotic systems: they
control or reason about motion and perception in the physical
world. They receive input from noisy sensors, consider geometric and
physical constraints, and operate on the world through imprecise
actuators. The design and analysis of robot algorithms therefore
raises a unique combination of questions in control theory,
computational and differential geometry, and computer science.

The topics of interest are very broad since the focus of WAFR is on
algorithm development and analysis rather than specific problems or
applications. Increasingly, robotics algorithms are finding use in
areas far beyond the traditional scope of robots.   The papers to be
presented at WAFR 2006 range from computational geometry and motion
planning to computational biology and sensor networks.

The workshop proceedings will be published in a hard-cover volume in
the Springer STAR series, and selected papers will be invited for
publication in a special issue of the International Journal of
Robotics Research.

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Nancy M. Amato
Professor, Parasol Lab, Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University, 3112 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3112
tel: +1-979-862-2275,  fax: +1-979-458-0718
email: amato@tamu.edu, url: http://parasol.tamu.edu/~amato
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