Computational Geometry
Course Materials

This page lists course syllabi and lecture notes for university-level courses in computational geometry and closely related fields.

Many K-12 and college geometry courses use computers as teaching tools, but that's not what I mean by "computational geometry courses". For more general geometry teaching materials, see the Swarthmore College Math Forum, or David Eppstein's page of lesson plans and teaching materials (from his Geometry Junkyard).

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• Other collections:
  • Lecture notes, surveys, and papers collected by Artur Czumaj and Miroslaw Kutylowski
  • Giorgio Ingargiola's list of courses on algorithms
  • Kirk Pruhs's collection of algorithms course materials
  • Peter Shirley's list of computer graphics courses

• Brown University:
  • CS 252: Computational Geometry
  • Geometric Algorithms, from Selected Topics in Algorithms

• Carnegie Mellon University:
  • 15-499C/15-881A: Introduction to Geometry (Fall 1997)
  • 24-384A: Computational Geometry (Fall 1997)

• Curtin University of Technology: Computational Geometry 201

• Duke University:
  • Computational Geometry (Spring 1997)
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms with Applications in GIS

• ETH Zürich:
  • Algorithmische Geometrie (auf deutsch)
    • Info from 1995
  • Geometrisches Rechnen (auf deutsch)

• FernUniversität Hagen: Was ist Algorithmische Geometrie? (auf deutsch)

• Freie Universität Berlin: Algorithmische Geometrie (Spring 1996)
  • Lecture notes, homeworks, etc. (auf deutsch)
  • Collected and revised course notes by Bernd Gärtner, now at ETH Zürich (109 pages, PostScript, auf deutsch)

• ITESM, Campus Estado de México: Geometría Computacional (en español)

• Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria: Courses and Seminars
  • Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry
  • Discrete Algorithmic Geometry
  • Geometric Foundations for Symbolic Computation
  • Geometric Modelling

• The Johns Hopkins University: 600.488: Computational Geometry

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 6.838J/4.214J: Interactive Geometric Data Structures and Computation (Spring 1998)

• McGill University: Computational Geometry (CS-507A)
  • Detailed course outline

• Middlebury College: Undergraduate Research Project in Computational Geometry

• New York University: Combinatorial Geometry (Fall 1996)

• Northwestern University: Special Topics on Geometric Computing and Visualization (Fall 1996)

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 35.679: Computational Geometry (Spring 1998)

• Rutgers University: CS 529: Computational Geometry (Spring 1998)

• Stanford University: cs368: Geometric Algorithms, Spring 96
  • Bibliography

• Texas A&M University: Lecture notes on computational optimization and computational geometry (PostScript)

• Technische Universität Graz: Geometrische Algorithmen

• University College, Gävle-Sandviken, Sweden: Computational Geometry C

• Universidad de Alicante: Razonamiento Geométrico

• University of Arizona: Computational Geometry for Geographic Information Systems

• University of California, Berkeley: CS294-3: Algorithms in the "Real World"

• University of California, Irvine:
  • ICS 164: undergraduate computational geometry
  • ICS 266: graduate computational geometry
  • ICS 280G, Spring 1997: Mesh Generation

• University of Copenhagen: Computational Geometry Course - Fall 1996

• Universität Freiburg: Seminar Geometrische Algorithmen (Winter 1997/Spring 1998, auf deutsch)

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: CS 497: Geometric Data Structures

• University of Iowa: Computational Geometry 22C:196

• University of Maryland: CMSC 754: Computational Geometry, Fall 1997
  • Spring 1996

• University of Minnesota: CSci 5442: Introduction to Computational Geometry (Spring 1998)

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
  • Scientific and Geometric Computation
  • COMP 290-72: Computational Geometry and applications

• University of Pennsylvania:
  • Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science
  •  CIS 677: Computational Geometry

• Universität des Saarlandes:
  • Geometrische Algorithmen
  • Implememtierung Geometrischer Algorithmen

• Universitade de São Paolo: MAC 747 Geometria Computacional (em Portugês)

• University of South Florida: Introduction to Computational Geometry, Fall 1996

• University of Tel Aviv: Workshop in Computational Geometry

• University of Texas, Austin: 395T: Computational Geometry

• Universität Trier: Computational Convexity I and Computational Convexity II (auf deutsch)

• Universiteit Utrecht: Geometrische algoritmen (in het Nederlands - but some homework problems are in English)

• University of Virginia: CS860 - Computational Geometry

• University of Wisconsin: Introduction to Computational Geometry

• Washington University in St. Louis: CS 506A: Computational Geometry and Geometric Modeling