Preface
Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach, and Richard Pollack .......... vii
Musings on discrete geometry and "20 years of Discrete and
Computational Geometry"
Branko Grünbaum .............................................. 1
State of the union (of geometric objects)
Pankaj K. Agarwal, János Pach, and Micha Sharir .............. 9
Metric graph theory and geometry: a survey
Hans-Jürgen Bandelt and Victor Chepoi ....................... 49
Extremal problems for convex lattice poly topes: a survey
Imre Bárány ................................................. 87
On simple arrangements of lines and pseudo-lines in 2 and 2
with the maximum number of triangles
Nicolas Bartholdi, Jérémy Blanc, and Sébastien Loisel ...... 105
The computational complexity of convex bodies
Alexander Barvinok and Ellen Veomett ....................... 117
Algorithmic semi-algebraic geometry and topology-recent
progress and open problems
Saugata Basu ............................................... 139
Expansive motions
Robert Connelly ............................................ 213
All polygons flip finitely ... right?
Erik D. Demaine, Blaise Gassend, Joseph O'Rourke, and
Godfried T. Toussaint ...................................... 231
Persistent homology—a survey
Herbert Edelsbrunner and John Harer ........................ 257
Recent progress on line transversals to families of
translated ovals
Andreas Holmsen ............................................ 283
An improved, simple construction of many halving edges
Gabriel Nivasch ............................................ 299
Unfolding orthogonal polyhedra
Joseph O'Rourke ............................................ 307
The discharging method in combinatorial geometry and the
Pach-Sharir conjecture
Radoš Radoičić and Géza Tóth ............................... 319
Pseudo-triangulations—a survey
Günter Rote, Francisco Santos, and Ileana Streinu .......... 343
Line problems in nonlinear computational geometry
Frank Sottile and Thorsten Theobald ........................ 411
On empty hexagons
Pavel Valtr ................................................ 433
k-sets and k-facets
Uli Wagner ................................................. 443
An Erdös-Szekeres type problem for interior points
Xianglin Wei and Ren Ding .................................. 515
The kissing number, blocking number and covering number of
a convex body
Chuanming Zong ............................................. 529
Open problems
Edited by János Pach ....................................... 549
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