Program

The Invited Speakers are

The preliminary program is

Friday, November 4 2011

8.15-9.00 Breakfast available
9.00-9.15 Opening Remarks ------------------------------- --
9.15-10.00 Afra Zomorodian Tidy and Tidier Sets Dartmouth C
10.00-10.20 Kevin Verbeek Angle-Restricted Steiner Arborescences for Flow Map Layout TU Eindhoven, NL
10.20-10.40 Tsz-Yam Eddie Lau Joining Fragmentary River Segments with Elevations and Water-Flow Directions using Induced Terrains RPI
10.40-11.20 Morning Coffee Break ------------------------------- --
11.20-11.40 Eli Packer Comparing Grid Approximation Schemes of Line Segments in the Plane IBM Research Haifa
11.40-12.00 Ashraful Alam Outerplanar Graphs and Delaunay Tesselations U Mass Amherst
12.00-12.20 George Purdy Reconstructing Scenes from Images by a Digital Camera U Cincinnati
12.20-12.40 Andrew Winslow Some Results on Hidden Edge Guards Tufts U
12.40-14.00 Lunch Break ------------------------------- --
14.00-14.20 Ben Baumer Set it and Forget it: Tighter Approximation Bounds for RoundRobin in a Restricted Sensor Network Lifetime Model CUNY GC
14.20-14.40 Michael Biro Beacon-based Routing and Coverage Stony Brook U
14.40-15.00 Pete Terlecky On Guard: Covering a Boundary with Mobile Agents CUNY GC
15.00-15.40 Afternoon Coffee Break ------------------------------- --
15.40-16.00 Boris Aronov On the Union Complexity of Diametral Discs Polytechnic Inst of NYU
16.00-16.20 Chun-Pi Chang Complexity of the Union of Axis-Parallel k-Hypersticks in R^d Polytechnic Inst of NYU
16.20-16.40 Small Break ------------------------------- --
16.40-17.00 Ji Li Ambient Isotopic Approximation of Bezier Curves U of Connecticut
17.00-17.20 Yi-Jen Chiang Numerical Subdivision Methods in Motion Planning Polytechnic Inst of NYU
17.20-17.40 Problem Session ------------------------------- --

Saturday, November 5 2011

8.15-9.00 Breakfast available -------------------------------- --
9.00-9.15 Opening Remarks ------------------------------- --
9.15-10.00 Jizhong Xiao How Can a Geometrician Help a Robotist? CCNY of CUNY
10.00-10.20 Mahmuda Ahmed Constructing Street-maps from GPS Trajectories U Texas San Antonio
10.20-10.40 Ning Xu Path Planning Problems Motivated by a Data Center Robot CUNY GC
10.40-11.20 Morning Coffee Break ------------------------------- --
11.20-11.40 Michael Burr Continuous Amortization for Subdivision-Based Algorithms Fordham U
11.40-12.00 Md. Shafiul Alam Optimal Algorithms for some Sum and Density Problems of a Sequence U of Windsor, CA
12.00-12.20 Jessica Sherette Partial Matching between Surfaces Using Frechet Distance U Texas San Antonio
12.20-12.40 Bhaswar Bhattacharya The Restricted One-Round Discrete Voronoi Game in R^2 Stanford U
12.40-14.00 Lunch Break ------------------------------- --
14.00-14.20 Brigitte Servatius On Stratifications for Planar Tensegrities with a Small Number of Vertices WPI
14.20-14.40 Ryan Lewis Multicore Homology Dartmouth C
14.40-15.00 Muriel Dulieu How to cover a Point Set with a V-Shape of Minimum Width Polytechnic Inst of NYU
15.00-15.40 Afternoon Coffee Break ------------------------------- --
15.40-16.00 Eli Packer Estimating alpha-Shape Distances for Reliable Classification IBM Research Haifa
16.00-16.20 Milka Doktorova Oracle-based Construction of Simplicial Complexes Dartmouth C
16.20-16.40 Small Break ------------------------------- --
16.40-17.00 Lei Wang Equitable Partitioning with Three Lines Rutgers U
17.00-17.20 Csaba Toth Monotone Paths in Planar Convex Subdivisions U of Calgary, CA
17.20-17.40 Problem Session, Closing ------------------------------- --