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Cray Distinguished Speaker Series
Monday, March 11, 2013
| Presenter: | Joseph Mitchell |
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| Affiliation: | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| Website: | http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~jsbm/ |
| Time: | 11:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: | Keller Hall 3-125 |
| Host: | Ravi Janardan |
Prof. Joe Mitchell leads the Computational Geometry group at Stony Brook University. His research interests are broadly in the area of computational geometry and algorithms, applied to problems in networks, transportation, manufacturing, graphics, visualization, and geographic information systems. His research group collaborates with industry and has developed software for geometric algorithms used in academic research and licensed to numerous companies.
Mitchell received a BS (Physics and Applied Mathematics) and an MS (Mathematics) from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD (Operations Research) from Stanford University in 1986. He served on the faculty of Cornell University and then joined Stony Brook University, where he is now Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Research Professor of Computer Science. Mitchell has received numerous teaching awards and various research awards, including ACM Fellow, 2010 Goedel Prize, NSF Presidential Young Investigator, Fulbright Scholar, and the President's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. He serves on editorial boards of Algorithmica, the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, and all four computational geometry journals. He serves on the Steering Committee for the Symposium on Computational Geometry and was its founding Chair.
