Grant: Canada Research Chairs
University of Calgary
$200,000.00
Computational and Discrete Geometry
FY 2023-24
Summary
The research program proposed by Dr. Karoly Bezdek (U of C) belongs to the broad area of discrete (resp., computational) geometry. He proposes to continue the research work of his previous CRC term on topics such as separable ball packings, ball-polyhedra, and non-separable arrangements of convex bodies. On the other hand, he plans to work on fundamentally new research directions as well including crystallization via soft ball packings, combinatorial X-raying, and volumetric geometry of molecules. Along the way, a number of longstanding conjectures are targeted with a combination of methods from discrete, convex, and differential geometry, geometric analysis, and probability.
Program
Canada Research Chairs
Recipient
Location
Alberta, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
CRC-2016-00027
Name nom
Bezdek, Karoly
Department département
Head Office
Organization id
11
Institution établissement
University of Calgary
Province en
Alberta
Province fr
Alberta
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2023
Competition year année de concours
2016
Award amount
200000
Program id
CRC
Program name en
Canada Research Chairs
Program name fr
Chaires de recherche du Canada
Group en
DISCOVERY RESEARCH
Group fr
RECHERCHE AXÉE SUR LA DÉCOUVERTE
Committee code
9998
Committee name en
Canada Research Chair Selection Committee
Committee name fr
Comité de sélection des Chaires de recherche du Canada
Area of application code
9999
Area of application group en
Not available
Area of application group fr
Non disponible
Area of application en
Not available
Area of application fr
Non disponible
Research subject code
10000
Research subject group en
The field of research available
Research subject group fr
The field of research available
Research subject en
Le domaine de recherche disponible
Research subject fr
Le domaine de recherche disponible
Field of research list codes
RDF10101;RDF10102
Field of research list names en
Pure mathematics;Applied mathematics
Field of research list names fr
Mathématiques pures;Mathématiques appliquées
Application title
Computational and Discrete Geometry
Keyword
packing
covering
tiling
separable and non-separable ; arrangements
hard balls
soft balls
convex bodies
; convex polytopes
ball-polyhedron
soft ball packings
; density
densest packings
contact graphs
X-raying
; geometric crystallization
volume of molecules
Application summary
The research program proposed by Dr. Karoly Bezdek (U of C) belongs to the broad area of discrete (resp., computational) geometry. He proposes to continue the research work of his previous CRC term on topics such as separable ball packings, ball-polyhedra, and non-separable arrangements of convex bodies. On the other hand, he plans to work on fundamentally new research directions as well including crystallization via soft ball packings, combinatorial X-raying, and volumetric geometry of molecules. Along the way, a number of longstanding conjectures are targeted with a combination of methods from discrete, convex, and differential geometry, geometric analysis, and probability.
