Massachusetts Institute of Technology

6.838J/4.214J - Geometric Computation

Presentation Schedule

Date, Lecture Number: Topic: Presenter:
Thu Sep 6, L1  Introduction, 2D Hull Seth Teller teller@lcs.mit.edu
Tue Sep 11, L2 Segment Intersection Piotr Indyk indyk@theory.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Sep 13, L3 Low-Dimensional Linear Programming Nati Srebro nati@mit.edu
Tue Sep 18, L4 Polygon Triangulation Daniel Vlasic drdaniel@mit.edu
Thu Sep 20, L5 Orthogonal Range Searching Erik Demaine [Guest lecturer] edemaine@theory.lcs.mit.edu
Tue Sep 25, L6 Point Location / Spatial Indexing David Pritchard, Sergi Elizalde daveagp@mit.edu
Thu Sep 27, L7 Voronoi Diagrams Allen Miu aklmiu@mit.edu
** Thu Oct 18, L8 ** Robustness and Perturbation Schemes Chee Yap [Guest lecturer]
Thu Oct 4, L9 Arrangements and Duality Darius Jazayeri jazayeri@mit.edu
Thu Oct 11, L10 Delaunay Triangulations Glenn Eguchi glenn@mit.edu
Tue Oct 16, L11 Representing Polyhedra Fumei Lam lam@math.mit.edu
** Thu Oct 25, L12 ** Convex Hulls Jason Yang jcyang@mit.edu
Tue Oct 23, L13 Representing Smooth Surfaces Ken Takusagawa kenta@mit.edu
** Tue Oct 2, L14 ** Binary Space Partitions Kevin Thompson ckevin@mit.edu
Tue Oct 30, L15 Kinetic Algorithms Charles Dumont dumont@mit.edu
Thu Nov 1, L16 Robot Motion Planning Philippe Cheng alternex@mit.edu
Tue Nov 6, L17 Quadtrees and Non-Uniform Meshing Tyeler Quentmeyer tyeler@mit.edu
Thu Nov 8, L18 Visibility Data Structures Seth Teller teller@lcs.mit.edu
Tue Nov 13, L19 Medial Axis, Surface Reconstruction Matthew Seegmiller xaco@mit.edu, Adam Smith asmith@theory.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Nov 15, L20 Higher- and High-Dimensional LP Nicole Immorlica nickle@mit.edu
Tue Nov 20, L21 Closest Pair Rados Radoicic rados@math.mit.edu
Tue Nov 27, L22 Approximate Nearest Neighbor Nitin Thaper nitin@theory.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Nov 29, L23 Iterative Algorithms Brian Perrin bperrin@mit.edu, Mohammad Hajiaghi hajiaghi@mit.edu
Tue Dec 4, L24 Approximate Nearest Neighbor (Hamming) Vahab Mirrokni mirrokni@mit.edu
Thu Dec 6, L25 Low-Distortion Embeddings Jan Vondrak vondrak@math.mit.edu
Tue Dec 11, L26 Reductions to Approximate Nearest Neighbor Mihai Badiou mihai@mit.edu