Sabbatical 2002-2003

A few things I did during my 2002-2003 sabbatical

Summer 2002

SoCG, Barcelona, June 2002. Discrete, Combinatorial and Computational Geometry, Beijing August 2002. Graph Drawing'02

Fall 2002

• Visiting Scholar, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA. Sept. 2002 until Jan. 21, 2003.
  
  Address:
  Computer Science Department
  Gates Building, Room 375
  Stanford University
  Stanford, CA 94305
  
  Office Phone: (650) 723 6838
  
  Fax: 650 723 0033
  
  
  
  
• At Stanford:
  • Introduction to Computational Topology, a course at Stanford given by my office mate, Dr. Afra Zomorodian
  • Algorithms in Biology , a seminar organized by Prof. Serafim Batzoglou
  • The Thursday Night Dinner Club
  • A Crash Course in Rigidity Theory, Jan. 10 and 17, 2003.
  • Leo's seminar
• Away from Stanford:
  • DIMACS Workshop, Geometric Graph Theory
  • AMS Fall Central Section Meeting, Madison, WI, Oct. 12-13, 2002.
  • The NYU Courant Institute Geometry Seminar
  • DIMACS Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry
  • Triangle Biophysics Symposium, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • DIMACS Workshop on Modelling Motion
  • DIMACS Workshop on Implementation of Geometric Algorithms

Spring 2003

• Jan. 24-31, Barbados Workshop on the Geometry of Protein Folding.

Europe

From mid February 2003 until the end of May, I am at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

• In Paris:
  • Seminaire Combinatoire algebrique et geometrique, at Universite Paris 6.
  • Seminaire de l'equipe Geometrie et Algorithmes , Departement d'Informatique, ENS (Paris)
  • AFLAC, Seminaires
  • Math library at ENS
• Away from Paris:
  • Feb. 2-4, 2003. Darmstadt, Germany. A symposium in honor of Prof. Jürgen Bokowski's 60th birthday.
  • STACS'03, Berlin, Germany
  • Encuentros de Geometria Computacional , Sevilla, Spain
  • First Joint International Meeting between the American Mathematical Society and the Real Sociedad Matematica Espanola , Sevilla, Spain
• June 2003: I am visiting LORIA, at the University of Nancy, France. Seminaire ALGO at LORIA. Email address: write to my Smith address.
• July-August 2003: St Gervais, Mont Blanc - in Haute Savoie, France. I spent two months "hiding" in the Alps: thinking, writing. Away from email.
• Freie Universitaet Berlin . A short visit in mid-July.

Back home (Northampton, Massachusetts)