Wednesday, November 8, 2017

[DMANET] Reminder: Intensive Research Program on Discrete, Combinatorial and Computational Geometry

Reminder: the deadline to apply for accommodation grants is November 15,
2017.

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                    Intensive Research Program on
          Discrete, Combinatorial and Computational Geometry
              April 16 – June 8, 2018 - Barcelona, Spain
http://dccg.upc.edu/irp2018

                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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- Registration is open at http://dccg.upc.edu/irp2018.

- The deadline to apply for accommodation grants is November 15, 2017.

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The program will consist of 8 weeks of activities focused on hot topics
in discrete, combinatorial and computational geometry.
It has been designed to be interesting to researchers at all career
stages, by combining learning opportunities and research collaboration
chances in problems of theoretical nature in combinatorial and discrete
geometry, algorithmic problems from computational geometry, and
implementation issues in specialized software.

*Core of the program (5 weeks)*

April 16-20, 2018
Advanced Course I: Advanced Techniques for Algorithmic Geometry
Lecturers:
    Erin Wolf Chambers (Saint Louis University)
    Nabil Mustafa (ESIEE Paris)

April 23-27, 2018
Inspiring Lectures I: Computational Geometry Towards Applications
Lecturers:
    Sergio Cabello (University of Ljubljana)
    Erik Demaine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    Tamal Dey (The Ohio State University)
    Vida Dujmovic (University of Ottawa)
    Dan Halperin (Tel Aviv University)
    Marc van Kreveld (Utrecht University)

April 30 - May 4, 2018
Hands-on course on Geometric Software
Lecturers:
    Andreas Fabri (CGAL, Geometry Factory)
    Nicolai Hähnle (OpenGL, AMD)
    Michael Joswig (Polymake, TU Berlin)
    Zoltan Kovács (GeoGebra, Johannes Kepler Universität)

May 7-11, 2018
Advanced Course II: New Results in Combinatorial & Discrete Geometry
Lecturers:
    Bojan Mohar (Simon Fraser University & University of Ljubljana)
    Gelasio Salazar (Univ. Autónoma San Luis Potosí)

May 14-18, 2018
Inspiring Lectures II: Challenges in Combinatorial & Discrete Geometry
Lecturers:
    Karim Adiprasito (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
    Imre Bárány (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
    Alexander Barvinok (University of Michigan)
    Fabrizio Frati (Università Roma Tre)
    Adam Sheffer (California Institute of Technology)
    Csaba D. Tóth (California State University Northridge)


Scientific Committee
    Oswin Aichholzer (TU Graz, Austria)
    Prosenjit Bose (Carleton U, Canada)
    Erik Demaine (MIT, USA)
    Clemens Huemer (UPC, Spain)
    Joe Mitchell (Stony Brook U, USA)
    János Pach (EPFL, Switzerland & Renyi Inst. Budapest, Hungary)
    Vera Sacristán (UPC, Spain)  (coordinator)
    Rodrigo I. Silveira (UPC, Spain)


*Accommodation grants*

The organizers will provide a number of 5-week accommodation grants for
students and postdocs. The grants will cover accommodation in a Premium
Studio at the Vila Universitària from April 15 to May 19. Each studio
will be shared by two persons. Grants will be assigned on a competitive
basis. More information, as well as the registration form to opt for
accommodation grants are available at http://dccg.upc.edu/irp2018.

This event is organized by
    Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (http://www.crm.cat)
    DCCG Research Group at UPC (http://dccg.upc.edu)
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