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|   |  |  | SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES |  | 
| October 30, 2025 |   | |||
|  | Fields Institute Workshop on Discrete and | |||
| Organizers: Prosenjit Bose, Anil Maheshwari, Pat Morin and Michiel Smid (Carleton University). | 
OVERVIEW
              This will be a a five-day workshop in the area of Discrete and Computational 
              Geometry. The main focus of the workshop is in the design and analysis 
              of algorithms and data structures to solve problems on geometric 
              structures. In particular, we wish to study geometric optimization 
              problems. The goal of the workshop is to bring together top researchers 
              in the field both from Canada and abroad to Carleton in order to 
              foster collaboration as well as expose students to important problems 
              in this growing field. We expect that this workshop will help establish 
              and strengthen research ties among researchers from Canada and abroad 
              as well as attract top graduate/post-doctorate students to Canada 
              (and Carleton in particular).
            
Format:
              We intend to invite 10 speakers to each give a one-hour lecture. 
              There will be two lectures per day held in the morning of each of 
              the five days. The lectures will be of a survey/tutorial nature 
              offering a state-of-the-art view of important topics in the field 
              and related areas of mathematics with applications to geometric 
              algorithms. An emphasis will be placed on highlighting the main 
              techniques in a given area as well as outlining some of the important 
              open problems in the area. The afternoons will be dedicated to discussions 
              on these open problems. The aim is to expose graduate students and 
              established researchers to these emerging techniques and engage 
              them in active research to try to solve some of the proposed open 
              problems.
            
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