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CMSC 754
Spring 2020
Dave Mount

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Lectures

All the lecture notes in one file: cmsc754-spring2020-lects.pdf

Date Lecture Title Resources
Tue, 01/28 01 Introduction to Computational Geometry  
Thu, 01/30
Tue, 02/04
02 Convexity and Convex Hulls 4Ms, Chapt 1
Thu, 02/06 03 Convex Hulls: Lower Bounds and Output Sensitivity  
Tue, 02/11 04 Line Segment Intersection 4Ms, Chapt 2
Thu, 02/13
Tue, 02/18
05 Polygon Triangulation 4Ms, Chapt 3
Thu, 02/20 06 Halfplane Intersection and Point-Line Duality 4Ms, Chapt 4
Tue, 02/25 07 Linear Programming 4Ms, Chapt 4
Thu, 02/27 08 Trapezoidal Maps 4Ms, Chapt 6
Tue, 03/03 09 Point Location 4Ms, Chapt 6
Thu, 03/05 10 The Doubly-Connected Edge List (Optional) 4Ms, Chapt 2
Tue, 03/10   Review for the Midterm Exam  
Tue, 03/31
Thu, 04/02
11 Voronoi Diagrams and Fortune's Algorithm 4Ms, Chapt 7
Tue, 04/07
Thu, 04/09
12 Delaunay Triangulations: General Properties 4Ms, Chapt 7
Tue, 04/14
Thu, 04/16
13 Delaunay Triangulations: Incremental Construction 4Ms, Chapt 7
Thu, 04/16
Tue, 04/21
14 Line Arrangements: Basic Definitions and the Zone Theorem 4Ms, Chapt 8
Tue, 04/21
Thu, 04/23
15 Applications of Line Arrangements 4Ms, Chapt 8
Tue, 04/28
Thu, 04/30
16 Well-Separated Pair Decompositions (Not in 4Ms)
Thu, 04/30
Tue, 05/05
17 Applications of WSPDs (Not in 4Ms)
Thu, 05/07 18 Introduction to Computational Topology Guest lecture by Ahmed Abdelkader
(Slides)
(Not in 4Ms)