Program

Friday 11/15

9:45 Opening
1st session: Machine Learning / Numerical Computing (chair: Hugo Akitaya)
9:50 Kevin Lu, Jie Gao, Feng Luo, Chengyuan Deng, Hongbin Sun and Cheng Xin.
Neuc-MDS: Non-Euclidean Multidimensional Scaling Through Bilinear Forms
10:10 Julian Vanecek, Auguste Gezalyan and David Mount.
Support Vector Machines in the Hilbert Geometry
10:30 Eliot Robson, Jack Spalding-Jamieson and Da Wei Zheng.
MOPBucket: A Massively OP algorithm for k-means clustering bucketloads of data
10:50 Leticia Mattos Da Silva, Oded Stein and Justin Solomon.
A Framework for Solving Parabolic Partial Differential Equations on Discrete Domains
11:10 Break (10 min)
2nd session: Invited Talk (chair: Hugo Akitaya)
11:20 Justin Solomon (MIT)

Convex Relaxation Strategies for Geometry Processing

12:20 Lunch and Open Problems (chair: Joe Mitchell)
3rd session: Planar Points (chair: Gill Barequet)
2:20 Aditya Acharya and David Mount.
Evolving Distributions Under Local Motion
2:40 Oliver Chubet, Donald Sheehy and Siddharth Sheth.
Approximating All-k-Nearest Neighbor Distances in Doubling Metrics
3:00 Oliver Chubet, Siddharth Sheth and Don Sheehy.
Simple Construction of Greedy Trees and Greedy Permutations
3:20 Anastasiia Tkachenko and Haitao Wang.
Independent Set and Dispersion Problems for Planar Points in Convex Position
3:40 Arjun Agarwal and Sayan Bandyapadhyay.
Extraction Theorems With Small Extraction Numbers
4:00 Break (20 min)
4th session: Polyominos / Unfolding / Art Gallery (chair: Csaba Tóth)
4:20 Gill Barequet, Neal Madras and Johann Peters.
On t-fold Totally Concave Polyominoes
4:40 Hugo Akitaya and Soham Samanta.
Path-Unfolding the Tesseract
5:00 Timothy Gomez, Rebecca Lin and Suhani Sharma.
Deploying Convex Polyhedral Nets
5:20 Linh Nguyen and Joseph Mitchell.
Fully Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme for Anchored Multiwatchman Routes
5:40 Varpreet Dhaliwal and Thomas Shermer.
Optimal Coverings of Spirals Using Half Guards
6:00 Break
6:45 Reception at Hyatt Place

Saturday 11/16

5th session: Data Analysis (chair: Diane Souvaine)
9:10 Francis Motta, Nicole Abreu and Parker Edwards.
Topological Machine Learning with Unreduced Persistence Diagrams
9:30 Kenneth McCabe and Michael Lesnick.
Sparse Approximation of the Subdivision-Rips Bifiltration for Doubling Metrics
Hanieh Ghabelialla, David Bremner and Rasoul Shahsavarifar.
A Data Depth Based Method in Anti Money Laundering (AML) Domain
(video)
9:50 Break (15 min)
6th session: Triangulations / Dissections / Tilings (chair: Mayank Goswami)
10:05 Waldo Gálvez, Mayank Goswami, Arturo Merino, Gibeom Park, Meng-Tsung Tsai and Victor Verdugo.
Computing Diverse and Nice Triangulations: Hardness and Algorithms
10:25 Therese Biedl, Stephane Durocher, Debajyoti Mondal, Rahnuma Islam Nishat and Bastien Rivier.
Computing Conforming Partitions with Low Stabbing Number for Rectilinear Polygons
10:45 Reymond Akpanya, Adi Rivkin and Frederick Stock.
On inside-out dissections of polygons and polyhedra
11:05 Erik D. Demaine and Stefan Langerman.
Tiling with Three Polygons is Undecidable
11:25 Break (15 min)
7th session: Invited Talk (chair: Hugo Akitaya)
11:40 Vida Dujmović (University of Ottawa)

Graph Product Structure: Theory and Applications

12:40 Lunch and Open Problems (chair: Joe Mitchell)
8th session: Housdorff / Fréchet distances (chair: Csaba Tóth)
2:15 Halley Fritze, Sushovan Majhi, Marissa Masden, Atish Mitra and Michael Stickney.
Embedded Graph Reconstruction under Hausdorff Noise
2:35 Hugo Akitaya, Majid Mirzanezhad, Maarten Löffler and Carola Wenk.
Clustering Points with Line Segments under the Hausdorff Distance is NP-hard
2:55 Erfan Hosseini Sereshgi, Maarten Löffler, Frank Staals and Carola Wenk.
Length-Preserving Matching Between Closed Curves
3:15 Henry Adams, Sushovan Majhi, Fedor Manin, Žiga Virk and Nicolò Zava.
 Lower Bounding the Gromov--Hausdorff distance in Metric Graphs
3:35 Hugo Akitaya, João Carlos Canto de Almeida, Lucas Fonseca and Gabriel Shahrouzi.
 Classifying Human Movement Using Discrete Fréchet and DTW Distances
3:55 Break (15 min)
9th session: Routing / Robotics / Path planning (chair: Erik Demaine)
4:10 Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel and John Stuart.
 Routing from Pentagon to Octagon Delaunay graphs
4:30 Hugo Akitaya, Matias Korman and Frederick Stock.
 Input-Sensitive Reconfiguration of Sliding Cubes
4:50 UML Modular Robots Group, Hugo Akitaya, Andrew Clements, Sam Downey, Jonathan Eisenbies, Saba Molaei, Soham Samanta, Gabriel Shahrouzi and Frederick Stock.
 Finding Shortest Reconfiguration Sequences for Modular Robots
5:10 Nilanjan Chakraborty, Prahlad Narasimhan Kasthurirangan, Joseph Mitchell, Linh Nguyen and Michael Perk.
 Provable Methods for Searching with an Imperfect Sensor
5:30 Korey Pickering, Ka Teo and Ovidiu Daescu.
 Implementation of a Trajectory Planner for an Articulated Probe
5:50 Closing