DIMACS WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS
 Presented under the auspices of the Special Year 
 on Large Scale Discrete Optimization. 
 
 March 21 - 23, 1999 
 Rutgers University, CoRE Building, Piscataway, NJ
 
 Organizers:
 Jitendra Malik , University of California - Berkeley, malik@cs.berkeley.edu
 Jean Ponce, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, ponce@cs.uiuc.edu 
 
 Confirmed speakers:
 
 COMPUTER VISION			ROBOTICS
 David Forsyth (Berkeley)	Greg Hager (Yale)
 Leonidas Guibas (Stanford)      Martial Hebert (CMU)
 Jan Koenderink (Utrecht)	Lydia Kavraki (Rice)
 Jitendra Malik (Berkeley)       David Kriegman (UIUC)
 David Mumford (Brown)		Jean-Paul Laumond (LAAS)
 Ramin Zabih (Cornell)           Bud Mishra (NYU)
 Andrew Zisserman (Oxford)       Mark Overmars (Utrecht)
 				Jean Ponce (UIUC)
 
 WEB PAGE:	 http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Robotics/
 
 Objectives: 
 
 This workshop will address the fundamental mathematical and
 computational problems underlying computer vision and robotics. A set
 of talks from major researchers in the field will help give a
 perspective on the leading issues today and the likely directions for
 future progress. Points of contact with computer science theory and
 algorithms, probabilistic inference, and other areas of applied
 mathematics in general will be stressed.
 
 The intended audience for the workshop is formed of students and
 practitioners of applied mathematics and computer science. The invited
 speakers will present various facets of vision and robotics, including
 object recognition, image segmentation, motion analysis, mobile robot
 navigation, visual servoing, geometric motion planning and object
 manipulation.
 
 Registration: There is a $20/day registration fee to be collected on
 site, cash or check only. This fee is waived for Postdocs and graduate
 students.
 
 Posters: There will be a poster session the afternoon of Monday, March
 22. Student participants are invited to submit posters.  Please
 contact Dr. Jitendra Malik (malik@cs.berkeley.edu) if you wish to
 submit a poster.
 
 Accomodations: There are a number of hotels near DIMACS in the
 Rutgers/Piscataway area. See the workshop web page for more details.
 
 Program: Stay tuned on the web page for the advance program.
 It will be available shortly.