The objective of the workshop is to exchange on mathematical foundations, algorithms, implementation, and applications of geometric structures in non-Euclidean manifolds.

Organizers Éric Colin de Verdière, Computer Science Department, École normale supérieure, Paris Jean-Marc Schlenker, Mathematics Research Unit, University of Luxembourg Monique Teillaud, INRIA, LORIA, Nancy Administrative support: Laurence Benini (INRIA) and Laurence Félicité (LORIA)              GROUP PICTURE

Invited participants Sergio Cabello, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana Myfanwy Evans, Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin Johan Hidding, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen Ivan Izmestiev, Institut für Mathematik, Freie Universität Berlin Arnau Padrol Sureda, Institut für Mathematik, Freie Universität Berlin Aymeric Pellé, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée Michael Schindler, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique, ESPCI, Paris Saul Schleimer, Warwick Mathematics Institute Boris Springborn, Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin Ileana Streinu, Department of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics, Smith College, Northampton John Sullivan, Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin Louis Theran, Department of Information and Computer Science, Aalto University Gert Vegter, Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen Mathijs Wintraecken, Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen

Program

== Wednesday 26 ==
9h30 - 10h00	Welcome coffee
10h00 - 11h00	Saul Schleimer	Computational complexity of recognizing three-manifolds	notes
11h00 - 11h15	Short break
11h15 - 12h00	Ivan Izmestiev	Colorings, monodromy, and impossible triangulations	slides
12h00 - 14h00	Lunch break (lunch at 12h30)
14h00 - 15h00	Louis Theran	Degrees of freedom in symmetric frameworks	slides
15h00 - 15h15	Short break
15h15 - 16h00	Myfanwy Evans	Tiling of triply-periodic minimal surfaces	slides
16h00 - 16h30	Coffee break
16h30 - 17h00	Aymeric Pellé	Periodic meshes for the CGAL library	slides
17h00 - 17h30	Michael Schindler	Statistical geometry for measuring thermodynamics in hard-sphere configurations	slides - poster
17h30 - 18h00	Johan Hidding	Large-scale structure in the Universe and the Power of Voids	slides
19h30	Banquet	Restaurant Les Pissenlits
== Thursday 27 ==
9h30 - 10h30	John Sullivan	Structured and Low-Valence Triangulations of the Three-Sphere
10h30 - 11h00	Coffee break
11h00 - 12h00	Sergio Cabello	Algorithms for embedded graphs	slides
12h00 - 14h00	Lunch break (lunch at 12h30)
14h00 - 14h45	Boris Springborn	Quasiconformal distortion of projective transformations and discrete conformal maps	slides
14h45 - 15h00	Short break
15h00 - 16h00	Mathijs Wintraecken	Intrinsic simplices on spaces of nearly constant curvature and quality measures for simplices on space forms; a road towards adaptive sampling	slides
16h00 - 16h30	Coffee break
16h30 - 17h30	Ileana Streinu	Auxetic and expansive: mathematical incursions into materials science
== Friday 28 ==
9h30 - 10h30	Arnau Padrol	Scribability problems for polytopes	slides
10h30 - 11h00	Coffee break
11h00 - 12h00		Open Problems Session
12h00 - 14h00	Lunch break (lunch at 12h30)
14h00 - 15h30		Informal discussions and working groups

Registration - deadline August 14
There are no registration fees but registration is compulsory.
Regular participants are expected to pay for their lunches (roughly 10 euros each at the INRIA cafeteria) and for the banquet that will be organized on Wednesday 26, if they want to join (around, say, 45 euros). Participation to the banquet must be announced when registering.
To register, please click on this link and answer the few questions asked.

Practical information

• WIFI
  If your institute is an eduroam site, please configure eduroam access on your laptop before leaving your lab. Otherwise ask us to open a guest WIFI account when registering.
  
  
• Travel
  Travelling to the Inria Nancy - Grand-Est research centre
  Note that tickets for the tram must be bought on the platform, before entering the tram.
  
  
• Accommodation
  • Flyer of the tourist office (in french)
  • Website of the tourist office
  • A few favorite hotels
  
  
• Nancy
  • Nancy is famous around the world for its group of architectural masterpieces inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance.
    It was the birthplace of Henri Cartan and Henri Poincaré.
  • Tourist office

• Panorama Place Stanislas Nancy 2005-06-15 by Emmanuel Faivre - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
• Group picture, courtesy of Johannes Caliskan, University of the Great Region.