Canada-Japan Workshop on Discrete and Computational Geometry
13-15 July, 2009
Sanjo Conference Hall
University of Tokyo, Japan.




Monday, July 13

09h30 - 10h00 Welcome reception and opening remarks
10h00 - 12h00 Session A1
A11Pivoting in linear complementarity: two polynomial-time cases
Komei Fukuda (ETH Zurich)
A12Decomposition of multiple coverings into more parts
Sebastien Collette (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
A13Selective perturbation in geometric computation
Kokichi Sugihara (Meiji University)
12h00 - 14h00 Lunch break
14h00 - 15h00 Session A2
A21Segment highway insertion under the generalized city metric
Matias Korman (Tohoku University)
A22More bounds on the diameter of convex polytopes
William Hua (McMaster University)
A23Realizations of oriented matroids by extended solvability sequence method
Hiroyuki Miyata (University of Tokyo)
15h00 - 15h30 Coffee break
15h30 - 17h30 Session A3
A31A proof of the molecular conjecture
Naoki Katoh (Kyoto University)
A32Connectivity augmentation in planar straight line graphs
Csaba Toth (University of Calgary)
A33Pinning a line by geometric objects
Xavier Goaoc (INRIA Nancy)



Tuesday, July 14

09h30 - 10h00 Coffee
10h00 - 12h00 Session B1
B11Distance k-sectors and zone diagrams
Takeshi Tokuyama (Tohoku University)
B12Minkowski sums of polytopes: bounds on f-vectors
Christophe Weibel (McGill University)
B13A cluster pattern approach for improved carpet encoding of surfaces
Kamen Kanev (Shizuoka University)
12h00 Workshop group photo
12h00 - 14h00 Lunch break
14h00 - 15h00 Session B2
B21On the infinitesimal rigidity of bar-and-slider frameworks
Shinichi Tanigawa (Kyoto University)
B22On extensions of cyclic arrangements
Feng Xie (McMaster University)
B23Round-tour Voronoi diagram: a new generalization of the Voronoi diagram
Hidenori Fujii (University of Tokyo)
15h00 - 15h30 Coffee break
15h30 - 17h30 Session B3
B31Empty pentagons in degenerate point sets
Stefan Langerman (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
B32Discrete geometry of multi-criteria optimization problems
Yoshio Okamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
B33Parameterized complexity of geometric problems
Christian Knauer (Free University Berlin)
18h00 Banquet at Innsyoutei



Wednesday, July 15

09h30 - 10h00 Coffee
10h00 - 12h00 Session C1
C11Constant working space algorithms for geometric problems
Tetsuo Asano (JAIST)
C12The duality between maximum margin separation and norm minimization
David Bremner (University of New Brunswick)
C13Computational aspects of monotone dualization
Kazuhisa Makino (University of Tokyo)
12h00 - 14h00 Lunch break
14h00 - 15h20 Session C2
C21 History based pivot rules and unique sink orientations
David Avis (McGill University)
C22A continuous d-step conjecture for polytopes
Antoine Deza (McMaster University)