FALL 2005 SEMINAR
	     
	GEOMETRIC, ALGEBRAIC and TOPOLOGICAL COMPUTING (GAT)

PLACE:	Warren Weaver Hall Room 402
TIME:	Tuesday 12:30-2:00
CONTACT: Chee Yap (yap at cs dot nyu dot edu)
	 Denis Zorin (dzorin at cs dot nyu dot edu)
NOTES:
	This is mainly a student seminar (worth 1 credit)
	around the topics of geometric and topological algorithms.

SCHEDULE:
	Sep 20:	Organization 
	Sep 27: Intro to Morse Theory (Denis)
	Oct 4:  Vegter's work on isotopic meshes for implicit curves
		(Ilya and Chris)
	Oct 11: Contour Trees (Saurabh)
	Oct 18: Morse-Smale Complex (Yotam)
	Oct 25: Intro to Differential Forms (Abhijit)
	Nov 1:  Cohen-Steiner & Moran on normal cycles (Michael)
	Nov 8:  Anil Hirani's thesis on discrete geometry (Elif)
	Nov 15: Intro to Finite Element Methods (Denis)
	Nov 22:	Zorin/Grinspun on curvature-based discrete surface energy
	Dec 6:  Numeric/algebraic computation, Sturm/Newton methods
		(Chee/Vikram/Zilin)
	Dec 10: Continued