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Feb 17: Straight-line Planar Maps

Straight-line planar embedding, star-shaped-hole filling, canonical ordering, Schnyder woods, grid embedding

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Toby Stafford, Invariant holonomic systems for symmetric spaces

Toby Stafford (University of Manchester) presents at the Facets of Noncommutative Geometry conference, hosted at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana on June 11, 2022.

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Travis Schedler, D-modules and rings of differential operators in singular and noncommutative settings

Travis Schedler (Imperial College London) presents at the Facets of Noncommutative Geometry conference, hosted at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana on June 11, 2022.

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Susan Sierra, Blowing down noncommutative cubic surfaces

Susan Sierra (University of Edinburgh) presents at the Facets of Noncommutative Geometry conference, hosted at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana on June 11, 2022.

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Gwyn Bellamy, Birational geometry of quiver varieties

Gwyn Bellamy (University of Glasgow) presents at the Facets of Noncommutative Geometry conference, hosted at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana on June 11, 2022.

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Apr 22: Visibility graphs

Visibility graph definitions Complexity: Θ(n) best case, Θ(n^2) worst case Construction via sweep of dual line arrangement: O(n^2 log n) time Four types of events Topological sweep:…

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Apr 20: Fréchet distance continued

Decision problem: Free space is convex in each cell Weak Fréchet distance: Replace free space in each cell with convex hull of free boundary segments Finding reachable points on grid boundary…

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Apr 15: Convolutions and Fréchet distance

Convolution A*B definition Minkowski sum A+B = points where A*B has positive winding number Fréchet distance definition (minimum leash length) Discrete Fréchet distance via dynamic…

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Apr 13: Minkowski sums and motion planning

The translational motion planning problem Work space, configuration space, and free space Minkowski sum definition and naive construction Example with complexity Θ(m^2 n^2) Convex + convex =…

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Apr 8: Geometric shortest paths

Definitions: Shortest paths in polygons Rubber-band structure Incremental improvement Crossing structure The funnel algorithm Variant: Given crossing sequence instead of explicit coordinates …

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Apr 6: Applications of line arrangements

Halfplane discrepancy Ham sandwich cuts Minimum-area triangles and affine degeneracy 3SUM and 3SUM-hardness

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Apr 1: Line arrangements

Definitions Motivation Incremental algorithm: For each line, trace the zone in the arrangement of earlier lines The Zone Theorem

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Mar 30: Generalizations of linear programming

Smallest enclosing annulus: reduce to LP by linearization Smallest enclosing ball: Can't be linearized! Welzl's MinDisk algorithm Proof of solution uniqueness Proof of pivoting/exchange…

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Mar 25: Seidel's linear programming algorithm

Set up and assumptions Seidel's incremental LP algorithm Proof of the exchange lemma Worst-case analysis of violation tests and basis computations Randomized analysis of violation tests ⇒…

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Mar 23: Linear programming intro

Example 1: Max-margin classifier Example 2: Detecting star-shaped polygons Linear programming definition Geometric interpretation: Lowest point in a convex polyhedron Geometric structure and the…

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Mar 09: Generalizations of Voronoi diagrams

four-way equivalence, via duality and lifting: Delaunay, Voronoi, lower hulls, and upper envelopes weighted Voronoi (power) diagrams and weighted Delaunay (coherent) triangulations tweaking Delaunay…

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Mar 04: Randomized incremental Delaunay triangulations

Randomized incremental algorithm outline Adding a safe bounding triangle: handling symbolic infinite coordinates History dag construction, O(n) expected size Analyzing expected time for all point…

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Mar 02: Delaunay triangulation proofs

local Delaunay condition and Lawson's flip algorithm paraboloid lifting map: locally Delaunay = locally convex lift locally Delaunay everywhere = locally convex lift everywhere = convex lift =…

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Feb 25: Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations

Voronoi diagram definition Simple examples (2 or 3 points) Delaunay triangulation definition How to think/program about circles The incircle test Lawson's flip algorithm

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Feb 23: Faster polygon triangulation

Intuition: Tracing the polygon can be faster than using the history dag Crossing Lemma: E[#crossings] ≤ 4(n–r) Seidel's algorithm: Alternate between randomized incremental (using…

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Feb 18: Randomized Incremental Construction II

Review of insertion algorithm: expected time = O(1) plus point location Conflict lists: Every trapezoid knows which points it contains Backward analysis: O(n log n) expected time Special case:…

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Feb 16: Duality, Randomized Incremental Construction

Duality in more detail: head*=left, tail*=right, clockwise*=counterclockwise Deletion* = contraction; Euler's formula by induction Inserting one segment into a trapezoidal decomposition Backward…

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Feb 09: Elementary polygon algorithms

Gauss's point-in-polygon test Winding numbers Polygon area (Meister's shoelace algorithm)

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Feb 11: Planar straight-line graphs

Incidence lists for abstract (multi-)graphs Ordered incidence lists for planar maps, aka double-connected edge list Navigating DCELs Planar map duality (yet another pair of glasses) Euler's…

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