Awards: SoCG 2012
28th Annual
Best Papers and Student Presentation
Symposium on
Computational
Geometry
Best Paper Awards
• PC members nominated 4
papers, from which the
Award Committee chose 2
Award Committee
(volunteers from the PC)
• Mark de Berg
• Gill Barequet
• Tamal Dey
• Steve Oudot
• Edgar Ramos
• Takeshi Tokuyama
• Sue Whitesides
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Best Paper
“On topological changes in the Delaunay
triangulation of moving points”
Natan Rubin
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Best Paper
“Multinerves and Helly numbers
of acyclic families”
Éric Colin de Verdière,
Grégory Ginot,
Xavier Goaoc
4
Best Student Presentation
• Presenter is an author of an accepted paper and was a
student at the time of paper submission.
• 19 student presentations.
• Winner chosen based on audience feedback.
5
Best Student Presentation
Adam Sheffer
“Counting Plane Graphs: Perfect Matchings,
Spanning Cycles, and Kasteleyn’s Technique”
Micha Sharir, Adam Sheffer, and Emo Welzl
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Congratulations
Congratulations to the prize winners
Thanks to our prize sponsor:
Mentor Graphics
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(John Hershberger)
That’s all.
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