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