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[compgeom-announce] Fall Workshop on Computationl Geometry + CRA-W/CDC day, Nov 2009: first CFP
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19th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry
November 13-14, 2009
Tufts University
51 Winthrop Street
Medford, MA
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/fwcg2009
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (pending).
SCOPE AND FORMAT
The aim of this workshop is to bring together students and researchers
from academia and industry, to stimulate collaboration on problems of
common interest arising in geometric computations. Topics to be covered
include, but are not limited to:
Algorithmic methods in geometry
I/O-scalable geometric algorithms
Animation of geometric algorithms
Computer graphics
Solid modeling
Geographic information systems
Computational metrology
Graph drawing
Experimental studies
Folding and unfolding
Geometric data structures
Implementation issues
Robustness in geometric computations
Computer vision
Robotics
Computer-aided design
Mesh generation
Manufacturing applications of geometry
Computational biology and geometric computations
Following the tradition of the previous Fall Workshops on
Computational Geometry, the format of the workshop will be informal,
extending over 2 days, with several breaks scheduled for discussions.
To promote a free exchange of questions and research challenges, there will
be a special focus on Open Problems, with a presentation on
The Open Problems Project, as well as an Open Problem Session to present
new open problems. Submissions are strongly encouraged to include
stand-alone open problems, which will be collected into a separate webpage
and considered for inclusion in The Open Problems Project.
As invited speakers, we expect to have 3-4 eminent leaders in their
respective fields who have witnessed first-hand the need for geometric
computing and its applications. We hope that the interaction with the
computational geometry community will be stimulating both to computational
geometers and to those involved in applying techniques of computational
geometry to other disciplines.
This year, the Fall Workshop will be followed by a 1-day workshop on
Computational Geometry, supported by CRA-W/CDC, targeted at females and
members of underrepresented groups. The workshop, to be held in
November 15, will include 6 tutorials given by experts. All attendees
of the Fall Workshop are encouraged to also attend the CRA-W/CDC day.
This year, the Fall Workshop will be followed by a 1-day workshop on
Computational Geometry, supported by CRA-W/CDC, designed to encourage the
success of women and members of underrepresented groups at the graduate
or post-graduate level. The purpose of the workshop will be to help
these people become interested in and knowledgeable about the paradigms
and research of computational geometry. The workshop, to be held in
November 15, will include six tutorials given by experts. All attendees
of the Fall Workshop are encouraged to also attend the CRA-W/CDC day.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for talks to be given at the
workshop. Please send an abstract (up to 2 pages) and a draft of a
paper (if you have one). (Because there are no formal proceedings for the
workshop, submission of material that is to be submitted to (or to
appear in) a refereed conference (e.g., SoCG'10) is allowed and
encouraged.) Abstracts should be sent by E-mail to barequet@cs.tufts.edu,
with "FWCG'09" in the subject line. Ideally, the abstract should be a PDF
or a PostScript file, for ease in assembling the abstract booklet.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: Friday September 25, 2009
Notification of acceptance: Friday October 9, 2009
Final version due and
Hotel block deadline: Monday October 19, 2009
Registration (no fee): Monday October 26, 2009
Workshop: Fri-Sat November 13-14, 2009
CRA-W/CDC workshop: Sunday November 15, 2009
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Esther M. Arkin (SUNY Stony Brook)
Gill Barequet (Technion and Tufts University, chair)
Lenore J. Cowen (Tufts University)
R.L. Scot Drysdale (Dartmouth College)
Audrey Lee-St. John (Mt. Holyoke College)
Anna Lubiw (Univ. of Waterloo and MIT)
Joseph S.B. Mitchell (SUNY Stony Brook)
Diane L. Souvaine (Tufts University)
Csaba Toth (Univ. of Calgary and Tufts University)
Godfried T. Toussaint (McGill University and Harvard)
HISTORY
This series of Fall Workshops on Computational Geometry was originally
founded under the sponsorship of the Mathematical Sciences Institute
(MSI) at Stony Brook (with funding from the U. S. Army Research Office)
and held there from 1991 through 1995. It continued during 1996-1999 under
the sponsorship of the Center for Geometric Computing, a collaborative
center of Brown, Duke, and Johns Hopkins Universities, also funded by the
U.S. Army Research Office. The workshop returned to Stony Brook for its
tenth year, and then moved to Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY for
its eleventh. The twelfth workshop (2002) was part of the Special Focus
on Computational Geometry and Applications at DIMACS, while the thirteenth
(2003) was part of the the Mathematical Foundation of Geometric Algorithms,
as part of the Special Semester on Computational Geometry at Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley. The fourteenth through eighteenth
workshops were held in 2004-2008 in MIT, the University of Pennsylvania,
Smith College, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, respectively. In 2009, we are proud to host the Fall Workshop
on Computational Geometry at Tufts University, bringing the workshop again
to the Boston area.
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