CG Week 2020

The Computational Geometry Week (CG Week) is the premier international forum for advances in computational geometry and its many applications.
CG Week combines a number of events, most notably the 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020), the associated Media Exposition (CG:ME), workshops, the Young Researchers Forum (CG:YRF), and the CG Challenge (CG:SHOP).
The 2020 edition would have taken place in Zürich, Switzerland, June 22-26, 2020 if not for restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So instead the event will be held online, in the same week.

Online Format

We wanted to keep the talks to be live talks with the possibility of direct interaction between speakers and audience. Complementary to the live sessions, we recorded all talks and (if speaker(s) agreed to) made them available to the participants for asynchronous viewing during the week of CG Week 2020 and the week after. As platforms we used Zoom for the talks and Discord for text and voice chat, to enable both live and asynchronous discussions.

Invited Speakers

• Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zürich)
• Xavier Pennec (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)

Awards

• Best paper: Convex hulls of random order types by Xavier Goaoc and Emo Welzl.
• Test of Time:
  • David Haussler and Emo Welzl, Epsilon-Nets and Simplex Range Queries, 2nd SoCG 1986, 61–71 (journal version in DCG 2, 127–151 (1987)).
  • Kenneth L. Clarkson, Applications of Random Sampling in Computational Geometry, II, 4th SoCG 1988, 1–11, together with Kenneth L. Clarkson and Peter W. Shor, Algorithms for Diametral Pairs and Convex Hulls That Are Optimal, Randomized, and Incremental, 4th SoCG 1988, 12–17 (journal version in DCG 4, 387–421 (1989)).
• Best Student Presentation: "Book Embeddings of Nonplanar Graphs with Small Faces in Few Pages" by Svenja Griesbach.

Childcare

We offer childcare at Kihz during all regular sessions.
If you need childcare, please contact the organizers as early as possible. All arrangements need to be made until six weeks before the conference, that is, no later than May 8, 2020.

Code of Conduct

CG Week adopts the recommendations of SafeToC to help prevent and combat harassment in the Theory of Computing community. All CG Week participants must observe the code of conduct reported here.

• Benjamin Burton (bab “at” maths “dot” uq “dot” edu “dot” au)
• Erin Wolf Chambers (erin “dot” chambers “at” slu.edu)
• Anne Driemel (driemel “at” cs “dot” uni-bonn “dot” edu)
• Jeff Erickson (jeffe “at” illinois “dot” edu)