DTU Discrete Differential Geometry Miniworkshop 16 July 2009
Theme of the Miniworkshop
Discrete differential geometry has grown in importance in recent years. One reason is the need to discretize,
for computational purposes, problems in continuous geometry, and this leads to a wealth of
interesting approaches and mathematical questions.
Another reason is that
advances in construction methods have led to the desire among architects and engineers to design
structures of a more interesting
geometrical nature, which, due to constraints imposed by the materials and methods,
are often modeled by discrete surfaces in 3-space. This also leads directly to the desire to
define discrete analogues for the many known and attractive differentiable surfaces
which are often molded by natural geometric or physical principles.
This miniworkshop is intended to explore these themes. The workshop is intended to be accessible
both to mathematicians and also to engineers or applied mathematicians whose line of work
can lead to discrete differential geometry.
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