Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, July 13-19, 1996, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.

古德曼：这次会议将汇集计算几何和离散几何的研究人员。会议的目的是促进计算机科学家和数学家之间以几何问题为中心的互动。这种相互作用主要是从1986年在圣克鲁斯举行的一次类似会议开始的。在那次会议之后的十年里，每个领域的研究人员都对对方做出了重大贡献。组合和离散几何学者对算法和复杂性相关的问题越来越感兴趣，而计算几何学者则利用他们的技术成功地解决了以前对数学家来说似乎难以解决的问题。由于这种相互作用，这两个领域都得到了发展。本次会议将审查过去十年取得的大部分进展，并划定今后几年可能取得进展的领域。＊＊＊

9530506 Goodman This meeting will bring together researchers in computational and discrete geometry. The purpose of the meeting is to foster interaction, centered on geometric questions, between computer scientists and mathematicians. Such interaction started mainly by a similar conference held in Santa Cruz in 1986. During the ten years since that meeting, researchers in each area have made substantial contribution to the other. Combinatorial and discrete geometers have gotten more and more interested in algorithmic and complexity-related questions, while the computational geometers have used their techniques successfully to make inroads into problems that had previously seemed intractable to mathematicians. Both fields have grown as a result of this interaction. The present meeting will survey much of the progress made during the past decade, and delineate the areas in which progress is likely to take place during the coming years. ***