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Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Graph for GSoC
From: Mario Mulansky (mario.mulansky_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-08 16:34:24


On Monday, April 08, 2013 03:19:01 PM Mario Mulansky wrote:
> On Monday, April 08, 2013 11:40:48 AM Tim Keitt wrote:
> > Just want to follow up on Daniel's post. Daniel works in my lab and is an
> > exceptionally good C++ programmer. I am available to mentor. This work is
> > in collaboration with Philip Kein at Rutgers who is writing a book on
> > planar graph algorithms. I will ask Phil if he is interested in
> > co-mentoring.
>
> this sounds like a good and valueable project to me. I'd just like to
> mention that it would have been nice if you came up with that 2 weeks ago
> already and added it to the boost gsoc projects page.

uh i just realized that you had actually posted that here about two weeks ago
and no one picked up on it, unfortunately... sorry then - you did everything
right!

> There is some
> competition to get into GSoC as a mentoring organization and the more
> project ideas boost provides the more likely it gets supported...
> However, google is just posting the list of accepted organizations and boost
> is in, so we are fine on that :)
>
> https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/boost
>
> Mario
>
> > THK
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Mitchell <
> >
> > dlm.bulk.messages_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > > Hi all, I'm a researcher and graduate student at the University of Texas
> > > at Austin and I'm interested in doing a Boost.Graph project for GSoC. I
> > > was
> > > thinking of doing one or more planar graph algorithms, in particular the
> > > multiple source shortest paths algorithm for planar graphs described at
> > >
> > > http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.889/fall11/lectures/L11.html
> > >
> > > The algorithm assumes that the sources are located on a single face. It
> > > proceeds by calculating the shortest paths tree from one source and then
> > > minimally modifying the tree to efficiently get the shortest paths from
> > > the
> > > other sources. The algorithm uses a dynamic tree data structure, so
> > > developing that data structure would be part of the project too.
> > >
> > > I've made prior contributions to BGL. I worked with Doug Gregor to
> > > implement color maps for the breadth first and Dijkstra's algorithms.
> > > One
> > > of my current areas of research is movement ecology, where planar graphs
> > > can be used to study movement.
> > >
> > > Let me know what you think.
> > >
> > > Daniel Mitchell
> > >
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