WORKSHOP IN DISCRETE AND COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY AT MSRI

[Emo Welzl]

    INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP IN DISCRETE AND COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY AT MSRI
          Wednesday, August 20 through Thursday, August 28, 2003

Organizing Comm.:  Jesus A. De Loera, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Jacob E. Goodman,
Janos Pach, Micha Sharir, Emo Welzl, and Guenter M. Ziegler

We are happy to announce that the list of speakers is now set for the first
workshop of the special semester on Discrete and Computational Geometry that
will take place at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute this coming
fall in Berkeley.  This workshop is intended to introduce the area of discrete
and computational geometry to mathematicians and computer scientists not (yet)
active in the field, or just entering it, and is aimed particularly at graduate
students and postdocs and at researchers who may already be working in other
but related areas.  It will highlight the interaction between mathematical and
algorithmic aspects of the field.

The speakers, each of whom will give a pair of one-hour talks, are all leading
researchers in the field and have been chosen especially for their accessible
styles.  They are as follows:

 Bernd Sturmfels:  Tropical Geometry
 Joel Hass:  Minimal Surfaces and Normal Surfaces in 3-Manifolds
 Jeff Lagarias:  Quasicrystals and Discrete Geometry; Density of Sphere Packings
 Erik Demaine:  Folding & Unfolding: Linkage Folding; Computational Origami
 Ron Graham:  Euclidean Ramsey Theory; Packing Equal Discs in Planar Regions
 Guenter M. Ziegler:  4-Dimensional Polytopes
 Joe O'Rourke:  Folding & Unfolding: Folding Polygons to Convex Polyhedra;
   Unfolding Polyhedra
 Emo Welzl:  Combinatorial Models for Solving Linear Programs; k-Sets and
   j-Facets
 Gil Kalai:  Graphs and Skeleta of Polytopes
 David Eppstein:  Computational Geometry and Robust Statistics; Hyperbolic
   Geometry, Moebius Transformations, and Geometric Optimization
 Richard Gardner:  Discrete Tomography: a Survey; Reconstruction of Convex
   Bodies from Brightness Functions
 Imre Barany:  Combinatorial Convexity: Theorems of Caratheodory, Helly,
   Radon and Tverberg (MSRI-Evans Lecture); Algebraic Topology Applied in
   Geometry
 Robin Forman:  Topics in Combinatorial Differential Geometry
 Nina Amenta:  Finding Objects in the Delaunay Triangulation; Actually
   Doing It: Algorithms and Programs for 3D Delaunay Triangulation
 Janos Pach:  Geometric Graph Theory
 Alexander Barvinok:  Complexity of Convex Bodies in Higher Dimensions

MSRI is committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action.

Please keep in mind, and let your students and postdocs know as well, that
the deadline for applying for travel support to the workshop is May 15.  For
more information and to register online, go to http://www.msri.org and click
on `Programs', `Discrete and Computational Geometry', `Introductory Workshop',
and `register on-line'.


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