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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - XVI EGC XVI Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry (Encuentros de Geometría Computacional, EGC) July 1-3, 2015 Barcelona, Spain http://www-ma2.upc.es/egc15

The XVI Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry will be held on July 1-3, 2015, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. The main focus of this international conference is on current topics in Discrete and Computational Geometry, including both theoretical and applied results. EGC started in 1990, making this edition, 25 years later, a special occasion. The intended audience for this conference includes graduate and undergraduate students, researchers in the area or from neighboring disciplines, and members of industry whose work involves geometric algorithms.

Topics include, but are not limited to: * geometric algorithms and data structures; * discrete and combinatorial geometry; * theoretical foundations of computational geometry; * questions of interest in the implementation of geometric algorithms and geometric software development; * applications of computational geometry, and closely related areas, such as computer graphics, virtual reality, robotics, computer vision, simulation and visualization, solid modelling, computer aided design and manufacturing, pattern recognition, graph drawing and circuit layout, image processing, geographic information systems, multimedia and animation, wireless communications, computer algebra, computational topology, statistical analysis, operations research, computational biology, etc.

The language of the conference is English, yet occasional submissions/presentations in Spanish may be exceptionally considered.

IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 23:59 CEST and fixed. There will be no extensions. Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2015 Notification of paper acceptance: May 14 Grant application deadline: May 21 Final versions due: May 31 Early registration deadline: June 4 Conference: July 1-3, 2015

INVITED SPEAKERS Jin Akiyama, Tokyo University of Science. Francisco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria. Bettina Speckmann, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Jorge Urrutia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit extended abstracts that should not exceed 4 pages of original research. In order to guarantee that submissions are in scope and not below basic standards, there will be a limited review process. An appendix can be added as a help for the reviewers and is required when necessary to verify omitted proofs of critical claims. Submission details will be available on the conference website.

We remark that XVI ECG will have neither formally reviewed proceedings nor printed abstracts. The abstracts, without ISBN, will be made available on the conference website (appendices excluded), and must be regarded as a collection of preprints rather than a formally reviewed selection of papers.

Papers that have just been submitted to journals or to formally reviewed conferences are eligible for being presented at XVI ECG, assuming that it is allowed by those venues and they have not appeared by the time of the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the conference. Failure to do so will result in removal of the contribution everywhere in the website.

COMMITTEES

Program committee

Manuel Abellanas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Oswin Aichholzer, Graz University of Technology. Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University. Sergio Cabello, University of Ljubljana. Jean Cardinal, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. José M. Díaz Báñez, Universidad de Sevilla. Ruy Fabila-Monroy, Cinvestav. Silvia Fernández-Merchant, California State University, Northridge. Jesús García López, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Alfredo García Olaverri, Universidad de Zaragoza. Gregorio Hernández, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Ferran Hurtado (Chair), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Rolf Klein, University of Bonn. Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University. Stefan Langerman, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Alberto Márquez, Universidad de Sevilla. Joseph S.B. Mitchell, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Belén Palop, Universidad de Valladolid. Pedro Ramos, Universidad de Alcalá. Tomás Recio, Universidad de Cantabria. Eduardo Rivera-Campo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana ? Iztapalapa. Toshinori Sakai, Tokai University, Tokyo Gelasio Salazar, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. Francisco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria. Antoni Sellarès, Universitat de Girona. Rodrigo I. Silveira, Universidade de Aveiro & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Pavel Valtr, Charles University. David Wood, Monash University.

Organizing commitee

Mercè Claverol, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Carmen Hernando, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Clemens Huemer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Mercè Mora, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Vera Sacristán (Chair), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Carlos Seara, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Rodrigo I. Silveira, Universidade de Aveiro & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.