NSF Workshop on
Geometric Approaches to Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

June 12-13, 2006

Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA, USA


About the workshop

Workshop Report

People

Organization

Conference Site

Hotel Information

Sponsorship

Contact

About the Workshop

Networked sensors and actuators, with embedded computational capabilities, have emerged as an important paradigm for a new generation of monitoring and control applications. These systems have a strong geometric character because the devices are embedded in the physical world and their sensed data are highly correlated with their physical locations.

Motivated by the inter-disciplinary nature of research issues in sensor networks, this workshop brings together a mix of leading researchers from computational geometry, robotics, and topology on one side and sensor and ad hoc networks on the other to discuss future research challenges in the design, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of these systems. Through lectures and discussions, the workshop provides the participants a forum to stimulate cross disciplinary research and generate an agenda for future joint efforts in the study and exploitation of geometric aspects of sensor networks.

Workshop Reports

The main findings and recommendations of the workshop are described in the following executive summary as well as a more technically oriented full report.

People

Organization

Alon Efrat, University of Arizona, AZ, USA
Leonidas Guibas, Stanford University, CA, USA
Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Conference Site

The workshop will be held on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. All the lectures and meetings will take place in ESB 2001 (Engineering Science Building), located next to parking structure 10 and the East Gate. Please refer to the campus map.

Hotel

South Coast Inn (Best Western) in Goleta is conveniently located near the campus, and also shops and restaurants. The hotel is within 5 minutes drive to the campus. The hotel

Sponsorship

The event is sponsored by :

Contact

For further information about the conference :
Ellen Winters, ellen@cs.ucsb.edu
Sorabh Gandhi, sorabh@cs.ucsb.edu