Call for Papers

30th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry

October 14-15, 2022

North Carolina State University

The 30th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry will be held at North Carolina State University and online on October 14-15. We welcome your submissions of abstracts. The conference website is http://go.ncsu.edu/fwcg2022. Submission info via easychair is included below.

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
• Machine learning
• Topological data analysis
• 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
• Computational conformal geometry

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.

Submissions:

Authors are invited to submit abstracts (up to 4 pages) for contributed talks to be given at the workshop. Submission is via easychair: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fwcg2022.

Talks may be delivered in person or remotely.

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’2023, SoCG’2023) is allowed and encouraged; please indicate clearly with the submission if the work has already been presented/accepted elsewhere.

Important Dates:

• Friday September 9, 2022: Abstract submission
• Friday September 16, 2022: Extension: Abstract submission
• Friday September 23, 2022: Notification of acceptance
• Friday September 23, 2022: Travel Support Applications Due
• Friday September 28, 2022: Extension: Travel Support Applications Due
• Friday September 30, 2022: Final abstracts due
• Friday September 30, 2022: Travel Support Notification
• Monday October 10, 2022: Registration (no fee)
• Fri-Sat October 14-15, 2022: Workshop

Program Committee:

• Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University
• Jie Gao, Rutgers University
• Tao Hou, Depaul University
• Sharath Raghvendra, Virginia Tech
• Don Sheehy, NCSU, (PC Chair)
• Meera Sitharam, University of Florida
• Jack Snoeyink, UNC Chapel Hill
• Sharma Thankachan, NCSU
• Hubert Wagner, University of Florida

Local Organizers

• Oliver Chubet, NCSU
• Kirk Gardner, NCSU
• Don Sheehy, NCSU
• Siddharth Sheth, NCSU
• Sharma Thankachan, NCSU

Travel Support:

There is (limited) travel support for students and postdocs at US institutions to FWCG 2022. All students and postdocs (at US institutions) are encouraged to apply, but priority will be given to speakers who have no (or limited) other travel funding. Since support is limited, we anticipate mostly funding of local (shared) accommodations and relatively inexpensive travel. (Registration at FWCG is free.)

To apply for travel support,

• visit and complete the form at this link (https://forms.gle/5sJANxZuUDN2Tus99). You will be asked to provide your name, email affiliation, student/postdoc status, a brief statement, etc.

• if you are a student, your adviser must also send a separate email to Don Sheehy (drsheehy@ncsu.edu) with subject “FWCG 2022 travel support” confirming your student status, recommending your attendance at FWCG 2022, and describing any other available travel funds. Vague statements such as “funds are tight” are not informative. Each adviser may nominate at most two students for travel support.

Applications and supporting letters should arrive by September 28 for full consideration; late applications will only be considered based on availability of funds. Awardees will be selected and notified by September 30. Applications will be reviewed in consultation with the FWCG program committee.

The requested information will be used to prioritize awards according to the following criteria:

• Speakers presenting at FWCG who do not have other travel support.
• Members of under-represented groups with research interests in computational geometry, whose attendance would broaden participation at the conference.
• Applicants whose statements and supporting information make a particularly compelling case for attending the conference.

Travel awards can be used only to offset transportation and lodging costs; other expenses such as food cannot be reimbursed. Receipts will be required for all covered expenses. All reimbursements will be made after the workshop.

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 twenty-ninth workshops were hosted at MIT (2004), the University of Pennsylvania (2005), Smith College (2006), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (2007), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2008), Tufts University (2009), CCNY (2011), Stony Brook University (2010), University of Maryland (2012), CCNY (2013), University of Connecticut (2014), University at Buffalo (2015), the CUNY Graduate Center (2016), Stony Brook (2017), Queen’s College CUNY (2018), and Montana State University (2021). In 2022, we are pleased to host the 30th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry at NC University.