| The first meeting of the ITR Bio-Geometry
Project took place at Duke University, January 4-5, 2001. The primary
purpose of the meeting was to learn more about each other's research
agendas, and to derive one or several directions for the project
in general. This program featured the PIs, who surveyed the relevant
past research in their groups and how they see this develop into
where they want to go in the future. |
The last half day of the meeting was
used to identify synergistic efforts, to formulate collaborative
projects, and to paint a large picture relating the important problems
with promising approaches. The hierarchical drawing below resulted
from this attempt at drawing a large picture. Some of the technical
topics that lead to this picture were: the maintenance of properties
under motion, the morphing of structures into each other, the simplification
of physical laws, 4-dimensional folding trajectories, methods for
medium-dimensional geometry, uncertainty in the representation of
structure families. |
