Computational Geometry Week, including SoCG 2012, June 17-20, in Chapel Hill, NC, USA

(welcome reception on June 16, 2012.)

The 28th Symposium on Computational Geometry is planned for June 17-20, 2012 on the beautiful campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Most events will be held in and around the conjoined Brooks Building/Sitterson Hall, which is located directly across from the Carolina Inn.

This year we are pleased to announce an expanded set of events that will be co-located with the 28th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), hosted at UNC Chapel Hill, June 17-20, 2012. The activities span 4 full days (Sun-Wed), with an initial welcoming reception on Saturday evening, June 16. Mornings will be devoted to SoCG paper presentations; afternoons will be devoted to activities that collectively go under the title Computational Geometry: Applications, Practice, and Theory (CG:APT). Together, these activities constitute “CG Week 2012″.

In response to the original Call for Workshops/Minisymposia/Events, the scientific committee selected an outstanding set of events that will comprise the CG:APT workshop series. Each of these events will have additional information available via links that will be posted below.

• “Connections Between Analysis and Computational Geometry” Organizer(s): Chris Bishop
• “Computational Topology” Organizer(s): Paul Bendich, Herbert Edelsbrunner, and Dmitriy Morozov
• “Discrete Differential Geometry: Geometry Processing and Physical Simulations” Organizer(s): Anil Hirani and Mathieu Desbrun
• “Computational Geometric Learning – Exploring geometric structure in high dimensions” Organizer(s): Guenter Rote, Christian Lorenz Mueller, and Joachim Giesen
• “Geometric Algorithms in the Field” Organizer(s): Jeff Phillips and Suresh Venkatasubramanian
• “ Publicly Available Geometric/Topology Software” Organizer(s): Menelaos Karavelas and Monique Teillaud Important date: Submissions due April 6th, 2012.
• “CGAL, an Open Gate to Computational Geometry” Organizer(s): Michael Hemmer and Mariette Yvinec
• “Flow-cut gaps and L_1 embeddings of graphs” Organizer(s): James Lee
• “Computational Geometry: Young Researchers Forum”, Organizer(s): Sandor Fekete chairs a committee: Prosenjit Bose, Jeff Erickson, Sandor Fekete, Marc van Kreveld, Alexander Kroeller, Joseph Mitchell, Bettina Speckmann, and Jan Vahrenhold) Important date: Submissions due 23:59 Honolulu time, March 11, 2012.