Seminar activities 1998-1999

October 1. Special session for the LIMDA Seminar, (Room C4 002, Campus Nord): Nature Doesn’t Have Straight-Lines: the Complexity of Recognizing Visibility Graphs, Ileana Streinu, Smith College.

October 5. Young tableaux and allowable sequences, Stefan Felsner, Freie Universität, Berlin.

November 5. LIMDA Seminar (Room C4 002, Campus Nord). Graphs, Matrices and Geometry, Miquel-Angel Fiol (MAT, UPC).

November 11. Oriented Matroids – a crash course (I): Ileana Streinu, Smith College, Massachusetts.

November 18. Oriented Matroids – a crash course (II): Ileana Streinu, Smith College, Massachusetts.

November 25. Oriented Matroids – a crash course (III): Ileana Streinu, Smith College, Massachusetts.

December 3. LIMDA Seminar (Room C4 002, Campus Nord). Practical Sampling Methods for Data Mining, Carlos Domingo (LSI, UPC).

December 9. Oriented Matroids – a crash course (IV): Ileana Streinu, Smith College, Massachusetts.

January 14. LIMDA Seminar (Room C4 002, Campus Nord). Validity-Preserving Simplification of Very Complex Polyhedral Solids, Carlos Andújar (LSI, UPC).

January 20. Combinatorial geometric problems in non-distinguishability relations, Jordi Recasens (EA, UPC) .

January 27. Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of the sand-pile model, Robert Cori, Univ. de Bordeaux I, LABRI.

February 1. Special session for the LIMDA Seminar (Room C4 002, Campus Nord), Elementary transformation of geometric objects, Ferran Hurtado (MA2, UPC).

February 17. On the minimum size of visibility graphs, Ferran Hurtado (MA2, UPC).

February 24. Stripification and discrepancy, Carlos Seara (MA2, UPC).

March 3. LIMDA Seminar (Room C4 002, Campus Nord). List Partitions, Pavol Hell, Simon Fraser Univ., British Columbia, Canada.

March 10. Arrangement graphs of curves in the plane: Hamiltonicity and coloring properties, Marc Noy (MA2, UPC).

March 17. No Seminar: CG’99.

March 24. Influence of shape in synthetic mark detection in Computer Vision, Jordi Saludes (MA2, UPC).

April 8. LIMDA Seminar (Room C4 002, Campus Nord). Title to be determined, M. José Serna (LSI, UPC).

April 14. Relaciones entre medidas descriptivas de las formas poligonales, Gregoria Blanco, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid.

April 28. Particiones perfectas de pasteles, Eduardo Rivera, Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana de México.

May 19. On Local Transformations of Simple Polygons, Michael Houle, University of Newcastle, Australia.

May 26. Robust Clustering of Large Data Sets, Michael Houle, University of Newcastle, Australia.

June 3. Special session for the LIMDA Seminar (Room C4 002, Campus Nord). Jai-Technology: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win, Steve Skiena, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

June 9 and 16. No Seminar (FPSAC99 and Univ. admission examinations).

June 22. Title to be determined, Steve Skiena, State University of New York at Stony Brook.