Computational Geometry at the joint math meetings

The Joint Mathematics Meetings  is billed as the "largest annual mathematics meeting in the world". In 2012 it's in Boston between Jan 4 and 7, and I'm told that there will be over 2000 presenters.

Happily, some of these will be geometers.

• Satyen Devadoss and Joe O'Rourke will be running an MAA short course based on their new book on Jan 2-3 before the main conference starts.
• I'm running a SIAM minisymposium on computational geometry on Thursday Jan 5 in the morning. We have a great and diverse set of speakers: 
  • Erin Chambers:  Computing interesting topological features on surface embedded graphs
  • Tasos Sidiropoulos: Optimal stochastic planarization
  • Seth Pettie: An Introduction to Davenport-Schinzel Sequences, Forbidden 0-1 Matrices, and Their Geometric Applications.
  • Yusu Wang: Toward understanding complex data: graph Laplacians on singular manifolds.
  • Jeff Phillips: Computational Geometry on Uncertain Data
  • Eric Price: Geometric Aspects of Compressive Sensing
  I'll be talking about Horoball Hulls and Extents in Positive Definite Space.
• Finally, Erik Demaine will be delivering the AMS-MAA-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture on Saturday, titled "Geometric puzzles: Algorithms and complexity"

 There will also be an all-day AMS special session on Computational and Applied Topology (also on Thursday).

So there's lots to do at the JMM if you're interested in geometry. So if you're in the area in January, drop by !