SoCG 2002

ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry
June 5-7, 2002

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Sponsored by ACM SIGACT and SIGGRAPH 

Association for Computing MachineryUniversitat Politècnica de CatalunyaDepartament de Matemàtica Aplicada II

Conference program

June 4th
18:00 - 20:00   Reception and registration

 
 June 5th
   8:30 -   9:00   Late registration
09:00 - 10:20   Session 1
Chair: Günter Rote
  • Parametric Search Made Practical, Rene van Oostrum and Remco C. Veltkamp
  • A Local Search Approximation Algorithm for k-Means Clustering, Tapas Kanungo, David M. Mount, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Christine Piatko, Ruth Silverman and Angela Y. Wu
  • On the Crossing Number of Complete Graphs, Oswin Aichholzer, Franz Aurenhammer and Hannes Krasser
  • On the Number of Embeddings of Minimally Rigid Graphs, Ciprian Borcea and Ileana Streinu
10:20 - 10:50   Coffee break
10:50 - 11:50   Session 2
Chair: John Hershberger
  • Deforming Necklaces, Leonidas J. Guibas, An Nguyen, Daniel Russel and Li Zhang
  • Efficient Maintenance and Self-Collision Testing for Kinematic Chains, Itay Lotan and Fabian Schwarzer and Dan Halperin and Jean-Claude Latombe
  • Box-Trees for Collision Checking in Industrial Installations, H.J. Haverkort and M. de Berg and J. Gudmundsson
11:50 - 12:00   Small break
12:00 - 13:00   Invited talk
 
Nathan Linial, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Finite Metric Spaces -- combinatorics, geometry and algorithms
13:00 - 15:00   Lunch
15:00 - 16:00   Session 3
Chair: Marc van Kreveld
  • Finding the Consensus Shape for a Protein Family, L. Paul Chew and Klara Kedem
  • Paper Position Sensing, Marshall Bern and David Goldberg
  • A Global Approach to Automatic Solution of Jigsaw Puzzles, David Goldberg and Christopher Malon and Marshall Bern
16:00 - 16:15   Coffee break
16:15 - 17:15   Open problems session
 
Open problems session
17:30 - 20:30   Gaudí Tour

 
 June 6th
09:00 - 10:20   Session 4
Chair: Pankaj Agarwal
  • The Power of Subtraction in Geometric Searching, Bernard Chazelle
  • A lower bound on the distortion of embedding planar metrics into Euclidean space, Ilan Newman and Yuri Rabinovich
  • The One-Round Voronoi Game, Otfried Cheong, Sariel Har-Peled, Nathan Linial and Jiri Matousek
  • Approximate Nearest Neighbor Algorithms for Frechet Distance via Product metrics, Piotr Indyk
10:20 - 10:50   Coffee break
10:50 - 11:50   Session 5
Chair: Jean-Daniel Boissonnat
  • Point-Line Incidences in Space, Micha Sharir and Emo Welzl
  • Incidences Between Points and Circles in Three and Higher Dimensions, Boris Aronov, Vladlen Koltun and Micha Sharir
  • Lenses in Arrangements of Pseudo-circles and their Applications, Eran Nevo, Janos Pach, Rom Pinchasi, Micha Sharir and Shakhar Smorodinsky
11:50 - 12:00   Small break
12:00 - 13:00   Invited talk
 
Günter Rote, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin. Pseudotriangulations, polytopes, and how to expand linkages
13:00 - 15:00   Lunch
15:00 - 16:20   Session 6
Chair: Nina Amenta
  • Guaranteed-Quality Parallel Delaunay Refinement for Restricted Polyhedral Domains, Demian Nave and Nikos Chrisochoides and Paul  Chew
  • The Delaunay Tetrahedralization from Delaunay Triangulated Surfaces, Sunghee Choi
  • Quickest Paths, Straight Skeletons, and the City Voronoi Diagram, Oswin Aichholzer and Franz Aurenhammer and Belen Palop
  • Testing Homotopy for Paths in the Plane, Sergio Cabello, Yuanxin Liu, Andrea Mantler and Jack Snoeyink
16:20 - 16:50   Coffee break
16:50 - 17:50   Session 7
Chair: Siu-Wing Cheng
  • Pseudo Approximation Algorithms, with Applications to Optimal Motion Planning, Tetsuo Asano, David Kirkpatrick and Chee Yap
  • Kinetic Maintenance of Context-Sensitive Hierarchical Representations of Disjoint Simple Polygons , David Kirkpatrick and Bettina Speckmann
  • Interlocked Open Linkages with Few Joints,  Erik D. Demaine, Stefan Langerman, Joseph O'Rourke and Jack Snoeyink
18:00 - 19:00   Business meeting
 
Business meeting
20:30 -            Conference Dinner

 
 June 7th
09:00 - 10:20   Session 8
Chair: Jean-Daniel Boissonnat
  • Conforming Delaunay Triangulations in 3D, David Cohen-Steiner and Eric Colin de Verdiere and Mariette Yvinec
  • The Probabilistic Complexity of the Voronoi Diagram of Points on a Polyhedron, Mordecai J. Golin and Hyeon-Suk Na
  • Three Dimensional Euclidean Voronoi Diagrams of Lines with a Fixed Number of Orientations, Vladlen Koltun and Micha Sharir
  • Polyhedral Voronoi Diagrams of Polyhedra in Three Dimensions, Vladlen Koltun and Micha Sharir
10:20 - 10:50   Coffee break
10:50 - 11:50   Session 9
Chair: John Hershberger
  • Vertex-Unfolding of Simplicial Manifolds, Erik D. Demaine and David Eppstein and Jeff Erickson and George W. Hart and Joseph O'Rourke
  • Optimally Cutting a Surface into a Disk, Jeff Erickson and Sariel Har-Peled
  • Optimal Decomposition of Polygonal Models into Triangle Strips, Regina Estkowski, Joseph S.B. Mitchell and Xinyu Xiang
11:50 - 12:00   Small break
12:00 - 13:00   Invited talk
 
Peter Schröder, Department of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology. Hybrid meshes: multiresolution using regular and irregular refinement (with I. Guskov, A. Khodakovsky, W. Sweldens)
13:00 - 15:00   Lunch
15:00 - 16:00   Videos session
Chair: Gill Barequet
  • Exact Minkowski Sums and Applications, Eyal Flato, Efi Fogel, Dan Halperin, and Eran Leiserowitz
  • Homotopy Techniques for Real-Time Visualization of Geometric Tangent Problems, Daniel Kotzor and Thorsten Theobald
  • Growing Fat Graphs, Alon Efrat, Stephen Kobourov, Martin Stepp, and Carola Wenk
  • AUTO-FOLLOW: Getting a Piece of the Action All the Time, Alexander Bogomjakov and Craig Gotsman
  • Adventures of Moebius Band, Stanislav Klimenko, Gregory M. Nielson, Lialia Nikitina, and Igor Nikitin
16:00 - 16:30   Coffee break
16:30 - 17:50   Session 10
Chair: Jonathan Shewchuk
  • Improved Construction of Vertical Decompositions of Three-Dimensional Arrangements, Hayim Shaul and Dan Halperin
  • Cost Prediction for Ray Tracing, B. Aronov and H. Bronnimann and A.Y. Chang and Y.-J. Chiang
  • Visibility Preserving Terrain Simplification - An Experimental Study, Boaz Ben-Moshe, Matthew J. Katz, Joseph S. B. Mitchell and Yuval Nir
  • Projective Clustering in High Dimensions Using Core-Sets, Sariel Har-Peled and Kasturi R. Varadarajan
17:50               Conference concludes

 
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