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Workshop on Software and Mathematics Visualization: June 24-28, 1996
Ayellet Tal, Organizer
Workshop on Computational Geometry Problems in Fluid Dynamics: July 1-3, 1996
Tim Baker, Organizer
Workshop on Hot Topics in Computational Geometry: July 8-12, 1996
Bernard Chazelle, Organizer
The programs for the three workshops cited above are appended below.
These workshops are open to all interested parties on a daily basis at no
charge, subject to the availability of space. PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Please complete the registration form below and return it to:
Elaine Foley, DREI Administrator, epfoley@dimacs.rutgers.edu.
She will confirm receipt of the registration and, assuming space is
available, will hold lunch tickets for you for the dates that you have
selected. Meals are at the Elm Club (at corner of Prospect and Olden).
Workshop on Software and Mathematical Visualization
Monday, June 24
8:00- 9:00 Registration
9:30-10:00 Paul Burchard, Princeton University
Interactive Mathematics on the Web
10:00-10:30 John Guckenheimer, Cornell Univeristy
Computer Generated Proofs for Dynamical Systems
and Bifurcations
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Jeff Weeks,
Plenary talk: The Shape of Space
12:00 Lunch
2:30- 3:00 Jean Taylor, Rutgers University
Visualization as an Aid to Understanding Surface Motion
3:00- 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30- 4:00 Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina
Interactive Walkthrough of Large CAD Models
4:00- 4:30 Nina Amenta, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center,
Video and Comics
7:00 - 8:00 Michael Cohen, Microsoft Corporation,
Computer Graphics: What Is It Good For?
Tuesday, June 25
9:30-10:00 John Sullivan, University of Minnesota,
Using the Evolver for Geometric Optimization
and Graphics
10:00-10:30 Tamara Munzner, Stanford University,
TBA
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Plenary talk
TBA
12:00 Lunch
2:30- 3:00 Marc Brown, DEC Systems Research Center,
TBA
3:00- 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30- 4:00 Dennis Roseman, University of Iowa,
Methods for Exploration of 4-space
4:00- 4:30 David Banks, Mississippi State University,
Interacting with Complex Algebraic Curves
Wednesday, June 26
9:30-10:00 Andrew Hanson, Imagis-Graver/Imag,
Exploiting Quaternion Frames in Geometry
10:00-10:30 Chaim Goodman-Strauss, University of Arkansas,
Finite State-Automata and You
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Robert Davis, Rutgers University,
Plenary talk followed by panel discussion, TBA
12:00 Lunch
2:30- 3:00 Isabel Cruz, Brown University,
Algorithm Animation over the WWW
3:00- 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30- 4:00 Marc Najork, DECF Systems Research Center,
A Web-Based Algorithm Animation System for an
Electronic Classroom
4:00- 4:30 Thomas Ball, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies,
Software Visualization in the Large
Thursday, June 27
9:30-10:00 Jack Snoeyink, University of British Columbia,
On Computing Edges That Are In All Minimum-Weight
Triangulations
10:00-10:30 Ayellet Tal, The Weizmann Institute of Science,
Polyhedral Surface Decomposition: Experimentation
and Visualization
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Plenary talk: Davide Cervone, Geometry Center,
Using Compuer-Based Labs in Multi-Variable Calculus
11:30-12:00 Plenary talk: Dennis Roseman, University of Iowa,
Tell Me What It Is That I Am Seeing
12:00 Lunch
2:30- 3:00 Jeff Weeks,
Dynamics and Topology
3:00- 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30- 4:00 Chaim Goodman-Strauss, University of Arkansas,
Address Structures
4:00- 4:30 Tom Banchoff, Brown University,
Higher Dimensions on the Internet:
Paperless Courses and Totally Electronic Journals
Friday, June 28
9:30-10:00 Stephen North, AT&T Research,
TBA
10:00-10:30 Isabel Cruz, Brown University,
Database Visualization
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Plenary talk: Charlie Gunn, Technische Univeritat, Berlin,
Oorange: A Framework for Experimental Mathematics
11:30-12:00 Plenary talk: John Sullivan, University of Minnesota,
An Interactive Java Applet Demonstrating Stereographic
Projection
12:00 Lunch
2:30- 3:00 Doug Kimelman, IBM Watson
TBA
3:00- 3:30 Coffee Breal
3:30- 4:00 Davide Cervone, Geometry Center,
A Surprising Polyhedral Surface: Mathematics on the Web
4:00- 4:30 Allan Wilks, AT&T Bell Labs,
Trellis: Visualizing Higher Dimensional Data
Through Conditioning
Workshop on Computational Geometry Problems in Fluid Dynamics
Monday, July 1
8:30 - 8:45 Welcome
8:45 - 9:20 Rainald Loehner, George Mason Univ.
TBA
9:20 - 9:55 Nigel Weatherill, Univ. of Wales, Swansea, U.K.
TBA
9:55 - 10:30 David Marcum, Mississippi State
TBA
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Plenary Talk -- John Vassberg, McDonnell Douglas
12:00 Lunch
1:50 - 2:25 Bruce Simpson, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
Experiments with Anisotropic Mesh Generation
using Chew and Rivara Refinement
2:25 - 3:00 Jaime Peraire, MIT
Interfacing an Unstructured Mesh Generator
with a Geometry Modeler
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:05 Gerald Farin, Arizona State Univ.
Applications of Voronoi Diagrams to
the Generation of Surfaces
4:05 - 4:40 Steven Fortune, ATT Research Center
7:00 -8:00 Evening Special Speaker: Antony Jameson,
Princeton University
Impact of Computational Methods on the Way
Engineering Design Should be Conducted
Tuesday, July 2
8:45 - 9:20 Armin Wulf, ICEM
TBA
9:20 - 9:55 Peter Eiseman, Program Development Corp.
TBA
9:55 - 10:30 Jeff Cordova, Visual Computing
TBA
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Steven Fortune, ATT Research Center,
Plenary Session
12:00 Lunch
1:20 - 1:55 John Dannenhoffer, United Technologies Research Center
TBA
1:55 - 2:30 Christoph Hoffman, Purdue Univ.
Medial-Axis Approach to Mesh Generation
2:30 - 3:05 Paul Plassmann, Argonne Laboratory
Parallel Algorithms for Adaptive Refinement and
Quality Improvement of Unstructured Meshes
3:05 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:05 Steven Vavasis, Cornell Univ.
An Algorithm for Unstructured 3-D Volumetric Mesh
Generation
4:05 - 4:40 Barry Joe, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Construction of 3-D Improved-Quality Triangulations
using Combinations of Flips
4:40 - 5:15 Frederic Hecht, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
TBA
7:00 - 8:00 Evening Event: Panel Dicussion on Key Problems in
Mesh Generation
Wednesday, July 3
8:45 - 9:20 Mark Shephard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mesh Generation directly interacting with
Solid Models: Advantages and Costs
9:20 - 9:55 Renato Perucchio, Univ. of Rochester
TBA
9:55 - 10:30 Wim Sweldens, Bell Laboratories
TBA
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:35 Marshall Bern: Xerox PARC
TBA
11:35 - 12:10 Paul Chew: Cornell Univ.
TBA
12:10 Lunch
1:50 - 3:00 Panel Discussion on Future Directions and Research
Opportunities in Computational Geometry Aspects of
Mesh Generation
3:00 Conclusion
Program for DREI Workshop on Hot Topics in the Theory of Computational Geometry
Monday, July 8
9:30--10:00 Bill Steiger, Rutgers University
TBA
10:00--10:30 Boris Aronov, Polytechnic University
TBA
10:30--11:00 Coffee break
11:00--12:00 Nina Amenta, XEROX PARC
Plenary lecture: TBA
12:00 Lunch
2:30--3:00 Mike Goodrich, Johns Hopkins
TBA
3:00--3:30 Coffee break
3:30--4:00 Ken Clarkson, AT&T Bell Labs
TBA
4:00--4:30 Pavan Desikan, Duke University
TBA
7:00--8:00 Lillian Schwartz: Evening talk, TBA
9:00--10:00 Wine and cheese
Tuesday, July 9
9:30--10:00 Jirka Matousek, Charles University
On Directional Convex Hulls
10:00--10:30 Danny Halperin, Tel Aviv University
Dynamic Maintenance of Kinematic Structures
10:30--11:00 Coffee break
11:00--12:00 Owen Astrachan, Duke University
plenary lecture: TBA
12:00 Lunch
2:30--3:00 Stefan Naeher, Halle University
TBA
3:00--3:30 Coffee break
3:30--4:00 Nina Amenta, XEROX PARC
TBA
4:00--4:30 Klara Kedem, Ben Gurion University
Geometric Pattern Matching in $d$-Space
with the Minimum Hausdorff Distance
Wednesday, July 10
9:30--10:00 Michael N. Maryukov, Bryansk State Pedagogical University
Algorithms on Vector and Point Sets
and Their Applications to Pattern Recognition
10:00--10:30 Subhash Suri, Washington University
TBA
10:30--11:00 Coffee break
11:00--12:00 Richard Pollack, Courant Institute
Plenary lecture: TBA
12:00 Lunch
2:30--3:00 Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University
Efficient Generation of c-Directed Assembly Sequences
3:00--3:30 Coffee break
3:30--4:00 Scot Drysdale, Dartmouth University
Recent Progress on Computing the Minimum
Weight Triangulation
4:00--4:45 Mark Overmars, University of Utrecht
Fixture Design
Thursday, July 11
9:30--10:00 Kasturi Varadarajan, Duke University
TBA
10:00--10:30 Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University and Courant Institute
Line Transversals in 3-Space
10:30--11:00 Coffee break
11:00--11:30 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, INRIA
TBA
11:30--12:00 Helmut Alt, FU Berlin
Geometric Shape Matching
12:00 Lunch at Institute for Advanced Study with
Talks by Gov. Whitman, Neal Lane, and John Polking
5:00 Piano concert at IAS
Friday, July 12
9:30--10:00 Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University and Courant Institute
Approximating Shortest Paths on Convex Polytopes
in three dimensions
10:00--10:30 David Eppstein, University of California at Irvine
TBA
10:30--11:00 Coffee break
11:00--12:00 Michael Goodrich,
Plenary lecture TBA
12:00--1:30 Lunch
2:30--3:00 Emo Welzl, ETH Zuerich
Contour Edges of Polyhedron Projections
3:00--3:30 Coffee break
3:30--4:00 Edgar Ramos, Rutgers University
Computing the Diameter of a Point Set
in 3-d Space Deterministically
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