Image by Nadia Benbernou, Patricia Cahn, Joseph O'Rourke

15th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry and Visualization

November 18-19, 2005

Amado Recital Room
Irvine Auditorium
Perelman Quadrangle
University of Pennsylvania
3417 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6306 USA

Accepted Abstracts

  1. Euclidean TSP on Two Polygons. Jeff Abrahamson, Ali Shokoufandeh.

  2. Flexibility of Subdivided Polyhedral Complexes. Audrey Lee, Ileana Streinu.

  3. Optimal Shape of a Blob. Carl M. Bender, Michael A. Bender.

  4. Combining Discrete and Continuous Optimization to Detect Protein Substructure Similarity. L. Paul Chew.

  5. Travel Depth: A New Shape Descriptor for Macromolecules. Ryan G. Coleman, Kim A. Sharp.

  6. Unfolding Well-Separated Orthotrees. Mirela Damian, Robin Flatland, Henk Meijer, and Joseph O'Rourke.

  7. Bounded-velocity Approximations of the Mobile Euclidean 2-centre. Stephane Durocher, David Kirkpatrick.

  8. BSP Visibility on S2. John Fedorkiw, Sherif Ghali, and Todd Keeler.

  9. Representing Topological Structures Using Cell-Chains. David E. Cardoze, Gary L. Miller, Todd Phillips.

  10. Simple Stochastic Games, Parity Games, Mean Payoff Games and Discounted Payoff Games are all LP-type Problems. Nir Halman.

  11. How to Water Carrots: Geometric Coverage Problems for Point Sets. Helmut Alt, Esther M. Arkin, Herve Bršonnimann, Jeff Erickson, SŽandor P. Fekete, Christian Knauer, Jonathan Lenchnerk, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Sue Whitesides, Kim Whittlesey.

  12. Opposite-quadrant depth in the plane. HervŽe Bršonnimann, JŽanos Pach.

  13. Depth Explorer ? A Software Tool for Analysis of Depth Measures. J. Hugg, E. Rafalin, D. L. Souvaine.

  14. Bounding the Number of Plane Graphs. Oswin Aichholzer, Thomas Hackl, Clemens Huemer, Ferran Hurtado, Hannes Krasser, Birgit Vogtenhuber.

  15. Data Structures for Halfplane Proximity Queries and Incremental Voronoi Diagrams. Boris Aronov, Prosenjit Bose, Erik D. Demaine, Joachim Gudmundsson, John Iacono, Stefan Langerman, Michiel Smid.

  16. The Complexity of Diffuse Reflections in a Simple Polygon. Boris Aronov, Alan R. Davis, John Iacono, Albert Siu Cheong Yu.

  17. Analysis of Incomplete Data and an Intrinsic-Dimension Helly Theorem. Jie Gao, Michael Langberg, Leonard J. Schulman.

  18. Efficient Algorithm for Approximating Maximum Inscribed Sphere in High Dimensional Polytope. Yulai Xie and Jinhui Xu.

  19. Local Overlaps in Unfoldings of Polyhedra. Anna Lubiw, Brendan Lucier.

  20. On the Importance of Idempotence. Sunil Arya, Theocharis Malamatos, David M. Mount.

  21. Iterated Snap Rounding with Steiner Points. Eli Packer.

  22. On Guarding and Partitioning Polygons. Yoav Amit, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Eli Packer.

  23. An Experimental Study of Weighted k-Link Shortest Path Algorithms. Ovidiu Daescu, Joseph S.B. Mitchell, Simeon Ntafos, James D. Palmer, Chee K. Yap.

  24. The Hunting of the Bump: On Maximizing Statistical Discrepancy. Deepak Agarwal, Jeff M. Phillips, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.

  25. Thick Non-crossing Paths. Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Valentin Polishchuk.

  26. Dynamic Ham-Sandwich Cuts for Two Point Sets with Bounded Convex-Hull-Peeling Depth. M. A. Burr, J. Hugg, E. Rafalin, K. Seyboth, D. L. Souvaine.

  27. Combinatorial and Algorithmic Applications of the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem. Sambudda Roy, William Steiger.

  28. Sublinear Projective Clustering with Outliers. Nina Mishra, Rajeev Motwani, Sergei Vassilvitskii.

  29. Path Length in Proximity Graphs as a Data Depth Measure. Kathryn Seyboth, Eynat Rafalin, Diane Souvaine.

  30. Enumerating Planar Minimally Rigid Graphs. David Avis, Naoki Katoh, Makoto Ohsaki, Ileana Streinu, Shin-ichi Tanigawa.

  31. Real-Time Kinetic Algorithms. Patchrawat "Patch" Uthaisombut.

  32. On the Equi-Area Partitioning Problem for Rectilinear Simple Polygons. Yiqing Wen, J. MacGregor Smith.

  33. Frechet Distance between Simple Polygons. Kevin Buchin, Maike Buchin, Carola Wenk.

  34. Recent Developments in NEARPT3 Nearest Point Query in E3 with a Uniform Grid. W. Randolph Franklin.

  35. Optimized Prediction for Geometry Compression of Triangle Meshes. Dan Chen, Yi-Jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu.