Saturday, May 7, 2016

[DMANET] DGTA16, 2nd call for posters and participation

DIMACS Workshop on
Distance Geometry: Theory and Applications
26-29 July 2016 at DIMACS, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Distance/
Second call for posters and participation

Chairs:
Farid Alizadeh (Rutgers Univ.)
Leo Liberti (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, France)

Scientific advisory committee:

Amir Ali Ahmadi (Princeton Univ.)
Marcia Fampa (Univ. Fed. Rio de Janeiro)
Bill Jackson (Queen Mary, Univ. London)
Nathan Krislock (Northern Illinois Univ.)
Monique Laurent (CWI, The Netherlands)
Therese Malliavin (CNRS & Institut Pasteur, France)
Michel Petitjean (Univ. of Paris 7)
Nicolas Rojas (Yale Univ.)
Amit Singer (Princeton Univ.)
Henry Wolkowicz (Univ. Waterloo, Canada)
Yinyu Ye (Stanford Univ.)

Organization: DIMACS (Tami Carpenter, Rebecca Wright)

Distance Geometry (DG) is a field of geometry which focuses on
defining and working with geometrical objects using distances between
points rather than the points themselves. From classical results such
as Heron's theorem, Euler's conjecture on the rigidity of polyhedra,
Maxwell's forces diagrams, and the link to positive semidefinite
matrices, DG has seen a veritable "engineering renaissance" in the XX
century. DG is used in architecture (rigidity of structures), spatial
conformation of molecules from inter-atomic distances, localization of
mobile sensors in communication networks, control of unmanned
underwater vehicles, control of robotic arms, solution of problems in
spatial logic, and more.

Invited speakers:
Amir Ali Ahmadi (Princeton Univ.)
Abdo Alfakih (Univ. Windsor, Canada)
Simon Billinge (Columbia Univ.)
Bob Connelly (Cornell Univ.)
Marcia Fampa (Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Hamza Fawzi (MIT)
Douglas Goncalves (Federal Univ. Santa Catalina, Brazil)
Steven Gortler (Harvard Univ.)
Georgina Hall (Princeton Univ.)
Bill Jackson (Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK)
Tibor Jordan (Eotvos Lorand Univ., Budapest, Hungary)
Bahman Kalantari (Rutgers Univ.)
Yuehaw Khoo (Princeton Univ.)
Nathan Krislock (Northern Illnois Univ.)
Carlile Lavor (Univ. of Campinas, Brazil)
Jon Lee (Univ. of Michigan)
Theres Malliavin (CNRS &Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Onur Ozyesil (Princeton Univ.)
Pablo Parrilo (MIT)
Frank Permenter (MIT)
Amit Singer (Princeton Univ.)
Meera Sitharam (Univ. of Florida at Gainesville)
Anthony Man-Cho So (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)
Ileana Streinu (Smith College)
Jayme Swarczfiter (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Shin-Ichi Tanigawa (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Antonios Varvitsiotis (NTU, Singapore)
Martin Vetterli (EPFL, Switzerland)
Henry Wolkowicz (Univ. Waterloo, Canada)

We are currently calling for posters. Please write to Leo Liberti
<liberti@lix.polytechnique.fr> if you're interested in presenting a
poster.

A special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics, dedicated to the
topic of this workshop, will be guest edited by the co-chairs.
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