Swarthmore College Department of Computer Science

CS97 Senior Conference Final Projects

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
1:15 to 4:00pm in Sci Center 252

The cs97-Senior Conference class will be presenting their final projects on Wednesday December 13 between 1:15 and 4:00pm in Sci Center 252. The talks will be 20 minutes long with a short question period afterward. All talks are open to the public, so please join us for one or more presentations.

Below is the scheduled order of presentation along with the topic. This semester's Senior Conference topic was on computational geometry with applications in Geographic Information Systems.

  1:20-1:40 Matt Singleton and Bronwyn Woods:
      Shortest (Indoor?) path routing at Swarthmore using GPS

  1:45-2:05 Dan Amato and Shingo Murata:
      Border patrol with watch towers   

  2:10-2:30 Scott Blaha and Mustafa Paksoy:
      Parallel algorithms for surface interpolation of points

  2:35-2:45 BREAK

  2:45-3:05 Anthony Manfredi and Alex Pshenichkin:
      Automated bridge detection in high-resolution terrains

  3:10-3:30 Taylor Hamilton and Giovanna Thron:
      Improved methods for flow routing on flooded terrains

  3:35-3:55 Phil Katz and Stephen St. Vincent:
      Polygon topology algorithms and shapefile overlay