20th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry
                          October 29-30, 2010

                         Stony Brook University
              http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~jsbm/fwcg-2010.html




SCOPE AND FORMAT:
The aim of this workshop is to bring together students and researchers
from academia and industry, to stimulate collaboration on problems of
common interest arising in geometric computations.  Topics to be covered
include, but are not limited to:

  Algorithmic methods in geometry and topology
  Sensor networks and network technologies
  I/O-scalable geometric algorithms
  Animation of geometric algorithms
  Computer graphics
  Solid modeling
  Geographic information systems
  Computational metrology
  Graph drawing
  Experimental studies
  Folding and unfolding
  Geometric data structures
  Implementation issues
  Robustness in geometric computations
  Computer vision
  Robotics
  Computer-aided design
  Mesh generation
  Manufacturing applications of geometry
  Computational biology and geometric computations

Following the tradition of the previous Fall Workshops on
Computational Geometry, the format of the workshop will be informal,
extending over 2 days, with several breaks scheduled for discussions.
The workshop is open to the public, with no registration fee.
There will be an Open Problem Session where participants are encouraged 
to pose and present research questions. 

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
  Christopher J. Bishop
  Erik Demaine

SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit abstracts (up to 4 pages) for
contributed talks to be given at the workshop.  Submission is via the
workshop web page or by email to joseph.mitchell@stonybrook.edu, with
"FWCG" in the subject.  We encourage submissions of full paper drafts
(if available) along with the abstract. Because there are no formal
proceedings for the workshop, submission of material that is to be
submitted to (or to appear in) a refereed conference (e.g., SODA'2011,
SoCG'2011) is allowed and encouraged; please indicate clearly with the
submission if the work has already been presented/accepted elsewhere.
Contributed talk abstracts, due by October 1, will be reviewed by the
program committee, with notification by October 11.

In addition to presentations of contributed talks, the workshop will
feature a poster session.  Poster abstracts (1-4 pages) are due by
October 15.  Poster presentations may include software demonstrations,
as appropriate.

IMPORTANT DATES:
  Abstract submission:          Friday October 1, 2010
  Notification of acceptance:   Monday October 11, 2010
  Poster submissions:           Friday October 15, 2010
  Hotel block deadline:         Friday October 15, 2010
  Final abstracts due:          Monday October 25, 2010
  Registration (no fee):        Monday October 25, 2010
  Workshop:                     Fri-Sat October 29-30, 2010

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
  Esther M. Arkin (Stony Brook University)
  Gill Barequet (Technion)
  Ovidiu Daescu (UT Dallas)
  Jie Gao (Stony Brook University)
  Gary Miller (Carnegie Mellon University)
  Joseph S. B. Mitchell (chair, Stony Brook University)
  Diane L. Souvaine (Tufts University)

STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT:
Thanks to support from NSF, there will be a limited amount of travel
support available for students/postdocs who do not have other sources
of travel money.  Requests can be made online.

SPONSORSHIP:
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Department of
Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Stony Brook University, 
the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT), 
and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.

HISTORY:
This series of Fall Workshops on Computational Geometry was originally
founded in 1991 under the sponsorship of the Mathematical Sciences
Institute (MSI) at Stony Brook, with funding from the U. S. Army
Research Office providing support during 1991-1995.  It continued
during 1996-1999 under the sponsorship of the Center for Geometric
Computing, a collaborative center of Brown, Duke, and Johns Hopkins
Universities, also funded by the U.S. Army Research Office.  The
workshop returned in 2000 to Stony Brook for its tenth year, and then
was hosted at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY in 2001.  The
twelfth workshop (2002) was part of the Special Focus on Computational
Geometry and Applications at DIMACS, while the thirteenth (2003) was
part of the the Mathematical Foundation of Geometric Algorithms, as
part of the Special Semester on Computational Geometry at Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley.  The fourteenth through
nineteenth workshops were hosted at MIT, the University of
Pennsylvania, Smith College, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Tufts University, respectively.
In 2010, we are pleased to host the 20th Fall Workshop on
Computational Geometry back at Stony Brook University, its founding
location.