Date: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Time: 18:30-22:30
Location: Zwarte Doos, Eindhoven (Map)
Ticket: 10 Euros, max. 50 people.
Bettina Speckmann • Necklaces, flows and cartograms: Algorithms for automated cartography
The field of cartography is concerned with the design of high-quality cartographic products, most often, maps. Obviously, the uprise of computer science has had a large impact on cartography. In the beginning, software that allowed the cartographer to manipulate the map facilitated the map design process. Nowadays, sophisticated computer procedures – algorithms – exist that can perform many of the tasks originally executed by cartographers.
Although the most commonly used maps are road maps and topographic maps, special purpose maps exist for conveying targeted information. Such maps usually focus on a single theme and visualize such diverse topics as the gross domestic product per country, the effects of pollution on the water quality, or the migration patterns of animals. Maps for these examples can be found, respectively, in newspapers, infrastructural reports, and biological studies.
In this presentation, Bettina will describe algorithms that automatically create several types of special purpose maps: necklace maps, flow maps, and cartograms.
See a video of Bettina as she explains her research interests.
Speaker Bio
Bettina Speckmann is an associate professor at the department of mathematics and computer science of the Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands). She received her diploma degree in mathematics from WWU Münster (Germany) in 1996 and her PhD in computer science from the University of British Columbia (Canada) in 2001. She spent two years as a postdoc at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science of ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and became an assistant professor at TU Eindhoven in 2003. Since March 2010 she is a member of The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and since March 2011 a member of the Global Young Academy. Bettina’s research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, discrete and computational geometry, applications of computational geometry to geographic information systems, cartography, and graph drawing.
Abstract/Bio: Simone will discuss her 11-year career at ASML from process operator to process technician to team leader, while completing a computer science degree at the same time.
We thank ASML for sponsoring this event.