Voronoi Diagrams, Triangulations, Splines



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	*	WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT		  *
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	*	  Voronoi Diagrams, 		  *
	*	   Triangulations,		  *
	*	        Splines			  *
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	*	Arizona State University	  *
	*	    Tempe, Arizona		  *
	* 	   Feb. 19-21, 1997		  *
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A three day Workshop will be held in Tempe, AZ (Arizona State University) on February 19-21, 1997. The workshop goals are to bring together researchers and practitioners of Voronoi diagrams, Delaunay triangulations, and multivariate splines from various scientific fields including biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, together with computational scientists and engineers in the areas of combinatorial geometry, computer-aided geometric design, computational algebraic geometry, computer graphics, data visualization, image processing and mesh generation. The diversity of attendees should generate several exciting cross-disciplinary results, and should also help researchers in finding new collaborative opportunities. This is the first attempt at bringing together such a variety of researchers and thus constitutes a unique interdisciplinary effort.

The Workshop shall be limited to 50 participants. The Workshop structure will be to hold talks on the main topic areas. The main emphasis is placed on the computational aspects of geometric problems that arise in the generation and manipulation of Voronoi diagrams, and its dual, and in spline formulations over these spatial subdivisions.Research contributions ranging from theoretical results in algorithm design, sequential or parallel, to application research practices and experiences in the above-mentioned areas are welcome.

Admissions to the workshop may be made both by potential speakers and non-speaking attendees. Potential speakers will be given a preference. A limited number of speakers will be selected from the submitted. Attendees are expected to be present for the entire Workshop and to actively contribute. Persons desiring to talk at the Workshop should submit a talk abstract (1 page) and a bio (1/2 page) electronically to Gerald Farin at the email address (farin@asu.edu) and making the email subject "Admission to Voronoi Workshop." The talk abstract should focus on research issues in one of the workshop sub-topics. Since the Workshop will be limited to a maximum of 50 persons, we will select attendees based on the applicability of the proposed talk and background in the field. Again, it is not necessary to offer to give a talk to attend the Workshop, but potential speakers will have priority for attending. Workshop talks should focus on research at a high level, i.e. current research) and future research issues. We estimate twenty-five minutes per selected talk.

We expect to have NSF funds for this workshop to support junior researchers. If you need such assistance, please indicate.

Organizing committee: C. Bajaj		bajaj@cs.purdue.edu
		      H. Edelsbrunner	edels@macchiato.cs.uiuc.edu
		      G. Farin		farin@asu.edu
Workshop Site Information
Place: Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ
Dates: Feb 19-21, 1997
Registration Fee: $75.
Admission: By application per above
Application for Admission due date:  Jan. 7, 1997
Notification Date for Attendees:  Jan. 15, 1997
Hotel Information:  Rooms have been reserved at a hotel near the ASU
Campus.  This information will be provided to those accepted to the
Workshop
Travel Information:  ASU, in Tempe, AZ, is a short drive/cab ride from the
Phoenix airport.

Tentative Program

Workshop location: ASU Computing Commons  Auditorium

Wednesday 2-19

10:00 Opening remarks: R. Barnhill (ASU VP Research)
10:15 Welcome and logistics: G. Farin
10:30 - 12:00 presentations
12:00 - 1:30 lunch (Memorial Union)
1:30 - 3:00 presentations
3:00 3:30 coffee break
3:30-5:00 presentations
7:00 - 9:00 Reception (University Club)

Thursday 2-20

8:30 - 10:0 presentations
10:00 - 10:30 coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 presentations
12:00 - 1:30 lunch (Memorial Union)
1:30 - 3:00 presentations

Friday 2-21

8:30 - 10:0 presentations
10:00 - 10:30 coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 presentations
12:00 - 1:30 lunch (Memorial Union)
1:30 - 3:00 presentations

All presentations will be 25 min + 5 min for discussions (tentative). The Computing Commons Auditorium provides state of the art presentation equipment.


Robert Schneiders