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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES |
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| November 21, 2024 |
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Fields Institute Workshop on Discrete and
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Computational
Geometry | Organizers: Prosenjit Bose, Anil Maheshwari, Pat Morin and Michiel Smid (Carleton University). |
OVERVIEW
This will be a a five-day workshop in the area of Discrete and Computational
Geometry. The main focus of the workshop is in the design and analysis
of algorithms and data structures to solve problems on geometric
structures. In particular, we wish to study geometric optimization
problems. The goal of the workshop is to bring together top researchers
in the field both from Canada and abroad to Carleton in order to
foster collaboration as well as expose students to important problems
in this growing field. We expect that this workshop will help establish
and strengthen research ties among researchers from Canada and abroad
as well as attract top graduate/post-doctorate students to Canada
(and Carleton in particular).
Format:
We intend to invite 10 speakers to each give a one-hour lecture.
There will be two lectures per day held in the morning of each of
the five days. The lectures will be of a survey/tutorial nature
offering a state-of-the-art view of important topics in the field
and related areas of mathematics with applications to geometric
algorithms. An emphasis will be placed on highlighting the main
techniques in a given area as well as outlining some of the important
open problems in the area. The afternoons will be dedicated to discussions
on these open problems. The aim is to expose graduate students and
established researchers to these emerging techniques and engage
them in active research to try to solve some of the proposed open
problems.
Invited Speakers
Glencora Borradaile, U of WaterlooProsenjit Bose, Carleton University
Sebastien Collette, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Mirela Damian, Villanova University
Erik Demaine, MIT
Stephane Durocher, University of Manitoba
Mohammad Farshi, Yazd University
Matthew Katz, Ben-Gurion University
David Kirkpatrick, UBC (to be confirmed )
Stefan Langerman, Fonds national de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
Anna Lubiw, U of Waterloo
Michiel Smid, Carleton University
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