Computational geometry has rapidly emerged as a field of intense research in computer science and many related disciplines. Since many of the computations associated with both real and simulated physical systems are geometric in nature, research in computational geometry has been fueled by applications in numerous fields, such as computer graphics, geometric modeling, molecular biology, sensor networks, engineering design, robotics, machine vision, data mining, and statistics, to mention just a few. All of these areas are on the forefront of current research activity in computational geometry.
The Fall Workshop in Computational Geometry will be organized at the Department of Computer Science of Tufts University, Medford, MA, November 13-14, 2009.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry, to stimulate collaboration on problems of common interest arising in all areas of geometric computing. The proximity to many universities in the Northeast will facilitate student involvement; requested funding is targeted particularly at making the workshop accessible to students, both graduate and undergraduate.
Following the tradition of the previous workshops on Computational Geometry, the format of the workshop will be informal, extending over two days, with several breaks scheduled for discussions. There will be a few (three to four) invited speakers, selected to speak on topics of mutual interest in computational geometry, computer graphics, and robotics. A key focus of the workshop will be an Open Problem Forum in order to promote a free exchange of questions and research challenges.
The workshop will have broader impact in its education and involvement of students and young researchers, who will be exposed to the latest developments in the field and will be given opportunities to present talks and posters on their own work. The workshop is designed to promote collaborations between computational geometry specialists and other experts in mathematical sciences and related scientific and engineering disciplines, in hopes of forming new alliances between the field of geometric algorithms and the many application domains in which geometric problems and issues arise.
Further information, announcements, and the workshop program will be available on the workshop website: www.cs.tufts.edu/research/geometry/FWCG09/
