SoCG Videos Call

You drew all those snazzy diagrams using your fancy Mac drawing program. Now it's time to make some videos:

Video and multimedia presentations are sought for the 20th Annual Video and Multimedia Review of Computational Geometry, to accompany the 27th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry in Paris, France.  This review showcases the use of visualization in computational geometry for exposition and education, for visual exploration of geometry in research, and as an interface and a debugging tool in software development.  Algorithm animations, visual explanations of structural theorems, descriptions of applications of computational geometry, and demonstrations of software systems are all  appropriate.

Three to five minutes is ideal for most presentations; eight minutes is the  upper limit.  Accepted video and multimedia presentations will have an abstract in the published conference proceedings; video/multimedia authors will have an opportunity to present their work at the Symposium during a dedicated video session.  Accepted presentations will be available online in various formats in a web proceedings.  See http://www.computational-geometry.org/ for examples of previous years' proceedings.

Send email to the Video/Multimedia committee chair, Jonathan Shewchuk, jrs@cs.berkeley.edu by 23:59 Pacific Standard Time, Friday, February 18, 2011, with the following information: the names and institutions of the authors, the email address of the corresponding author, and instructions for downloading the submission.

All FOCS talks are online

All FOCS 2010 talks are now online, at ieee-focs.org and http://techtalks.tv/focs/2010. The player works fine on firefox (the picture is embedded in one corner of the slides) and I find the talks particularly pleasant to listen to if you have  a nice backing track :)

Ketan Mulmuley at the Center for Intractability

The Center for Intractability recently hosted Ketan Mumuley for a 3-part talk series on his attack on P vs NP via geometric complexity theory. The videos are now online here.

And let me just add here that I think it's fantastic that the center posts video for all the talks. It takes some work to get videos produced for web delivery, and it's so much nicer than reading a paper (or 10).