Workshops
Workshop on Combinatorial Geometry
Organizers: Balázs Keszegh, Dömötör PálvölgyiTuesday 9:00 - 12:30 in Gólyavár, smaller room and Wednesday 17:15 - 18:30 in Gólyavár, main lecture hall.
7th Annual Minisymposium on Computational Topology
Organizers: Henry Adams, Ellen Gasparovic, Katharine TurnerTuesday 9:00 - 12:30 and Wednesday 15:30 - 18:30 in building B, room B172.
3rd Workshop on Geometry and Machine Learning
Organizers: Anne Driemel, Jeff Philipps, Jinhui XuMonday 14:30 - 18:00 in Gólyavár, smaller room.
Fine-grained Complexity of Hard Geometric Problems
Organizers: Édouard Bonnet, Paweł RzążewskiMonday 14:30 - 18:00 in building B, room B172.
Educational Forum on the Teaching of Computational Geometry and Topology: Some History, Current Practice, and Future Trends
Organizers: David Millman, Joe MitchellWednesday 15:30 - 18:30 in Gólyavár, smaller room.
Computational Geometry Week 2018: Call for Workshops
CG Week 2018 will take place June 11-14, 2018 in Budapest, Hungary, anchored by the 34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG). SoCG brings together a global community of researchers working on a large variety of topics that combine geometry, topology, algorithms, and applications. Information about the event can be found at http://www.renyi.hu/conferences/ socg18/
To allow a broad audience to participate actively in the community's major scientific event, a series of half-day events will be organized throughout CG week. One of these events is a series of workshops and minisymposia on topics related to all aspects of computational geometry and its applications.
Typical events feature some number of invited speakers and/or contributed talks. Events may include other forms of presentations, such as software demos, panel discussions, industry forums, tutorials, posters, videos, implementation challenges, or artwork. Discussion among workshop participants is encouraged. CG Week workshops will have no formal proceedings. Optionally, the organizers may coordinate with journals to publish special issues, or arrange for other dissemination (via arXiv, webpages, or printed booklets, for example). We expect most events to last one morning or afternoon (3-4 hours), but some meritorious events may extend across two half-days.
We invite proposals for events focusing on all topics of potential interest to the computational geometry community. Some possible topics include (in alphabetical order): algebraic methods, biology, cache-oblivious algorithms, chemistry, combinatorial geometry, computational photography, computational topology, computer graphics, computer vision, conformal geometry, differential geometry, folding/origami, games and puzzles, geographic information systems, geometric aspects of privacy, geometric software, geometry of graphs, geometry processing, high-dimensional geometric algorithms, implementation challenges, machine learning, manufacturing, massive data sets, mesh generation, motion planning, optimization, physical simulation, physics, real-world applications of CG, robotics, sensor networks, surface reconstruction, and visualization.
For examples of previous CG Week workshops, please refer to the conference websites for 2012-2017, accessible from the Computational Geometry Pages at http://www.computational-geometry.org/
For planning purposes, prospective workshop organizers are requested (but not required) to notify the committee of their intent to submit a proposal by December 16, 2017. Formal proposals should be submitted by email to the CG Week workshops chair, Carola Wenk (cwenk@tulane.edu), by January 16, 2018. Proposals should be brief (at most 3 typeset pages) and should include the following information:
1. Title or theme of the workshop/minisymposium/event
2. Name and email address of the organizer(s)
3. Brief scientific summary and discussion of the merits of the
proposed topic as it relates to computational geometry
4. A description of the proposed format and agenda
5. Proposed duration (both minimum and ideal)
6. Procedures for selecting participants and presenters
7. Intended audience
8. Potential invited speakers/panelists (confirmed?)
9. Plans for dissemination (such as journal special issues), if any
10. Past experience of the organizer(s) relevant to the event
Important Dates
December 15, 2017: Intent-to-submit requested
January 14, 2018: Workshop proposals due
January 30, 2018: Notification of acceptance/rejection
June 11-14, 2018: CG Week in Budapest
Further Information
We anticipate that CG Week workshops will be operated at low cost. In particular, there is no intended budget for invited speakers, except as arranged by the individual workshop organizers. CG Week organizers will provide organizational assistance, including registration, meeting rooms at the CG Week venue, coffee breaks, wireless network, and a link to the web page of the event.
CG Week Workshops Committee
Carola Wenk (Tulane University, chair)
Maarten Löffler (Utrecht University)
Brittany Terese Fasy (Montana State University)
Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah)