DIMACS Workshop on Algorithmic Issues in Modeling Motion

November 18 - 20, 2002
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke University, pankaj@cs.duke.edu

Leonidas J. Guibas, Stanford University, guibas@cs.stanford.edu

Workshop Program:

MONDAY November 18

 8:15 -  8:55	Breakfast and registration

 8:55 -  9:00	Opening remarks
             	Fred Roberts, Director of DIMACS

 9:00 - 10:00	Tracking Hands By Recognition
		Carlo Tomasi, Duke University

10:00 - 10:30	Human Motion Estimation: Visual Cues, Representation, Statistics
		Dimitris Metaxas, Rutgers University

10:30 - 11:00	Break

11:00 - 11:30 	Multiple Motions in 3D Fractured Concrete Specimen
		Tong Zhang, RPI

11:30 - 12:00	Animation by Example
		Michael Gleicher, University of Wisconsin, Madison

12:00 - 12:30	3D Radial Decompositions and Their Kinetic Maintenance
		Samuel Hornus, INRIA

12:30 -  2:00	Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00	Motion, Constraints, and Contact
		Dinesh Pai, Rutgers University

 3:00 -  3:30	Point-and Shoot Model Acquisition
		Elisha Sacks, Purdue University

 3:30 -  4:00	Kinetic Data Structures for Collision Detection
		Bettina Speckmann, ETH Zurich

 4:00 -  4:30	Break

 4:30 -  5:00	Exact Collision Checking of Robot Paths
		Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford University

 5:00 -  5:30	Biomolecules in Motion: With or Without Water?
		Patrice Koehl, Stanford University

 5:30 -  6:00 	Using Motion Planning to Study Protein Folding with a Case
		  Study of Hairpin Formation in Proteins G & L
		Nancy Amato, Texas A&M


TUESDAY November 19

 8:15 -  9:00	Breakfast and registration

 9:00 - 10:00	Lower Bounds for Kinetic Data Structures
		Mark de Berg, TU Eindhoven

10:00 - 10:30	On the Number of Views of Translates of a Cube
		Boris Aronov, Polytech University

10:30 - 11:00	Break

11:00 - 11:30	Clustering Motion
		Sariel Har-Peled, UIUC

11:30 - 12:00	Smooth Kinetic Maintenance of Clusters
		John Hershberger, Mentor Graphics

12:00 - 12:30	Routing in Mobile Wireless Networks
		Li Zhang, HP Labs

12:30 -  2:00	Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00	Incremental Motion and k-Means Clustering
		David Mount, University of Maryland

 3:00 -  3:30	Approximation Algorithms for the Mobile Piercing Set Problem
		  with Applications to Clustering in Ad-hoc Networks
		Hai Huang, Arizona State University

 3:30 -  4:00	Break

 4:00 -  5:00	Distributed Networked Sensing and Information Processing
		Feng Zhao, Palo Alto Research Center

 5:00 -  5:30	Distributed Communication Algorithms for Ad-hoc Mobile Networks
		Sotiris Nikoletseas and Paul Spirakis, CTI, Patras

 5:30 -  6:00	Modeling Motion in Ocelot
		Ken Clarkson, Bell Labs

WEDNESDAY November 20

 8:15 -  9:00   Breakfast and registration

 9:00 - 10:00	Combinatorial Roadmaps in Configuration Spaces of Simple
		  Planar Polygons
		Ileana Streinu, Smith College

10:00 - 10:30	Complexity Issues in Chain and Tree Reconfiguration
		Sue Whitesides, McGill University

10:30 - 11:00	Relaxed Scheduling in Dynamic Skin Triangulation
		Alper Ungor, Duke University


11:00 - 11:30	Building Space-Time Meshes over Arbitrary Spatial Domains
		Jeff Erickson, UIUC


11:30 - 12:30	Lunch

12:30 -  1:00	Managing the location of  Moving Objects: Linguistic and
		  Performance Issues
		Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois

 1:00 -  1:30	Indexing Mobile Data
		Cecilia M. Procopiuc, AT&T Research

 1:30 -  2:00	Kinetic Medians and kd-Trees
		Jie Gao, Stanford University

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