There’s only one session left of the second day of SoCG 2008 here at the University of Maryland in College Park. The temperature is close to 40 degrees C and it’s very humid so everyone stays inside in the air-conditioned building of the conference venue. As usual it’s hard to dress such that you’re not completely fried when you go outside, and such that you don’t freeze when you’re inside. The conference is taking place at the business school, I’m definitely not used to seeing stock tickers in computer labs – fun detail.
Bardia presented our paper, I/O-Efficient Algorithms for Computing Contours on a Terrain, as the very first day of the talk. The audience raised a couple of interesting points which I’m sure we’ll think more about after the conference.
The closes thing to a conference excursion was two busses that took us to Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, DC for dinner yesterday. I went to a Korean restaurant with a couple of people and had good Korean-style steak thingy, and I liked walking in the Dupont Circle area, which hadn’t explored on foot before.
Tonight is the conference banquet, that should be fun.