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| Time | Room L1050 | Room L1060 | 
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| 8:45-9:00 | Opening Remarks | |
| 1A Chair: Henk Meijer | 1B Chair: Mark Keil | |
| 9:00-9:30 | 
		Proximate Point Searching Erik D. Demaine, John Iacono, Stefan Langerman  |  
    
		On the Hardness of Turn-Angle-Restricted Rectilinear Cycle Cover Problems Steph Durocher, David Kirkpatrick  |  
  
| 9:30-10:00 | 
		Point Location Algorithms of Minimum Size Valentina Damerow, Lukas Finschi, Martin Ziegler  |  
    
		Ordered Theta Graphs Prosenjit Bose, Joachim Gudmundsson, Pat Morin  |  
  
| 10:00-10:30 | 
		Using Simplicial Partitions to Determine a Closest Point to a Query Line Asish Mukhopadhyay  |  
    
		Logarithmic Path-Length in Space-Filling Curves Jens-Michael Wierum  |  
  
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Invited Talk: Luc Devroye (introduced by: Jit Bose) | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | |
| 2A Chair: Hazel Everett | 2B Chair: Tom Shermer | |
| 1:30-2:00 | 
		On Flat-State Connectivity of Chains with Fixed Acute Angles Greg Aloupis, Erik D. Demaine, Henk Meijer, Joseph O'Rourke, Ileana Streinu, Godfried Toussaint  |  
    
		Hierarchical Planar Voronoi Diagram Approximations I. Boada, N. Coll, J. A. Sellares  |  
  
| 2:00-2:30 | 
		PUSH-2-F is PSPACE-Complete Erik D. Demaine, Robert A. Hearn, Michael Hoffman  |  
    
		The Complexity of Flow Diagrams in the Plane Joachim Giesen, Matthias John  |  
  
| 2:30-3:00 | 
		Constructing Convex 3-Polytopes from Two Triangulations of a Polygon Benjamin Marlin, Godfried Toussaint  |  
    
		 Constructing Differentiable Homeomorphisms Between Isomorphic Triangulations Frederick Crimins, Diane Souvaine  |  
  
| 3:00-3:30 | Coffee | |
| 3A Chair: Sylvain Lazard | 3B Chair: Therese Biedl | |
| 3:30-4:00 | 
		Efficient Answering of Polyhedral Queries in Rd 
			Using BBS-Trees K. Elbassioni, A. Elmasry, I. Kamel  |  
    
		Connecting Points in the Presence of Obstacles in the Plane Michael Hoffman, Csaba D. Toth  |  
  
| 4:00-4:30 | 
		Analysis of Half-Space Range Search Using the k-d Search Skip List Mario A. Lopez, Bradford G. Nickerson  |  
    
		Computing Signed Permutations of Polygons Greg Aloupis, Prosenjit Bose, Erik D. Demaine, Stefan Langerman, Henk Meijer, Mark Overmars, Godfried T. Toussaint  |  
  
| 4:30-5:30 | Open Problems - Chair: Joseph O'Rourke | |
| Time | Room L1050 | Room L1060 | 
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| 4A Chair: | 4B Chair: Mark Keil | |
| 9:00-9:30 | 
		An Exact Algebraic Predicate for Maintaining 
		    the Topology of the Voronoi Diagram for Circles Francois Anton, David Kirkpatrick, Darka Mioc  |  
    
		Partitioning a Deformed Urban Grid Leonard Hagger, Ian Sanders  |  
  
| 9:30-10:00 | 
		Robust Algorithm for k-Gon Voronoi Diagram Construction Zhenming Chen, Evanthia Papadopoulou, Jinhui Xu  |  
    
		Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Computing a-fat Decompositions Mirela Damian-Iordache  |  
  
| 10:00-10:30 | 
		A Reliable Algorithm for Computing the Generalized Voronoi 
			Diagram for a Set of Spheres in the Euclidean d-dimensional Space M. L. Gavrilova  |  
    
		Partitioning Orthogonal Polygons into Fat Rectangles in Polynomial Time Joseph O'Rourke, Geetika Tewari  |  
  
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Invited Talk: Ulrich Kortenkamp | |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch | |
| 5A Chair: Alex Lopez-Ortiz | 5B Chair: Godfried Toussaint | |
| 1:00-1:30 | 
		Nonorthogonal Polyhedra Built from Rectangles Melody Donoso, Joseph O'Rourke  |  
    
		Computing Closest Points for Segments Sergei Bespamyatnikh  |  
  
| 1:30-2:00 | 
		Tighter Bounds on the Genus of Nonorthogonal Polyhedra Built from Rectangles Therese Biedl, Timothy M. Chan, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Paul Nijjar, Ryuhei Uehara, Ming-wei Wang  |  
    
		A Sweep Line Algorithm for Nearest Neighbour Queries Joao Dinis, Margarida Mamede  |  
  
| 2:00-2:30 | 
		Cost-Optimal Quadtrees for Ray Shooting Herve Bronnimann, Marc Glisse, David R. Wood  |  
    
		On Reverse Nearest Neighbour Queries Anil Maheshwari, Jan Vahrenhold, Norbert Zeh  |  
  
| 2:30-3:00 | 
		On the Number of Lines Tangent to Four Convex Polyhedra H. Bronnimann, O. Devillers, V. Dujmovic, H. Everett, M. Glisse, X. Goaoc, S. Lazard, H.-S. Na, S. Whitesides  |  
    
		A Near-Quadratic Algorithm for the Alpha-Connected
		    Two-Center Decision Problem P. H. Huang, Y. T. Tsai, C. Y. Tang  |  
  
| 3:00-4:30 | Travel to Waterton | |
| 5:30-6:30 | Boat Cruise | |
| 7:00-9:00 | Supper and Business Meeting | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Return from Waterton | |
| Time | Room L1050 | Room L1060 | |
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| 9:00-10:00 | Invited Talk: Stan Wagon | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee | ||
| 6A Chair: Hazel Everett | 6B Chair: | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | 
		Convexity Minimizes Pseudo-Triangulations Oswin Aichholzer, Franz Aurenhammer, Hannes Krasser, Bettina Speckmann  |  
    
		
		    Searching for the Center of a Circle T. Biedl, M. Hasan, J. D. Horton, A. Lopez-Ortiz, T. Vinar  |  
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| 11:00-11:30 | 
		Enumerating Pseudo-Triangulations in the Plane Sergei Bespamyatnikh  |  
    
		
		    Light Edges in Degree-Constrained Graphs Prosenjit Bose, Michiel Smid, David R. Wood  |  
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| 11:30-12:00 | 
		Asymptotically Efficient Triangulations of the d-cube David Orden, Francisco Santos  |  
    
		
		    Drawing K2,n: A Lower Bound Therese Biedl, Timothy M. Chan, Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz  |  
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| 12:00-12:30 | 
		
		On Sampling and Reconstructing Surfaces with Boundaries M. Gopi  |  
    
		
		    Drawing Series-Parallel Graphs on a Box Emilio Di Giacomo, Giuseppe Liotta, Stephen K. Wismath  |  
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| 12:30-1:00 |  A Linear Algorithm for Compact Box-Drawings of Trees Masud Hasan, Md. Saidur Rahman, Takao Nishizeki  |  
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