News

NSF Grant Awarded!

Robert Schweller and Tim Wylie were just awarded a 3-year NSF grant for the project "Unifying Self-Assembly through Tile Automata." We are extremely excited about the number of opportunities this will open up for the research group. The formal UTRGV announcement of the award is here: http://www.utrgv.edu/en-us/about-utrgv/news/press-releases/2018/july-11-national-science-foundation-awards-grant-to-utrgvs-department-of-computer-science/index.htm Also, our congressman ...

Short abstract accepted to JCDCG^3 2018

A short abstract and presentation was accepted to be presented at the 21st Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graphs, and Games. The paper, titled Tile Pattern-Building Games on a Grid are PSPACE-complete, is the outcome of a class project led by Angel and Austin from the Spring 2017 ...

New summer researchers

We have several new students working with us this summer on a variety of topics. They are being added to the members section and will have more information up shortly including contact information/etc. We're excited to have everyone on board! ...

Paper accepted in ESA 2018

The paper "Self-Assembly of Any Shape with Constant Tile Types using High Temperature" was accepted and will appear the 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018) this Fall in Finland. http://esa-symposium.org/ and http://algo2018.hiit.fi/esa/ ...

Paper accepted to DNA 2018

The paper “Freezing Simulates Non-freezing Tile Automata” was accepted into the Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA'18) which will be in China this Fall. http://dna24sdnu.com/index.asp ...

Paper accepted to CCCG 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Winslow and his student researchers whose paper Vertex Unfoldings of Orthogonal Polyhedra: Positive, Negative, and Inconclusive Results, will be appearing in the 2018 Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry. The authors are Luis A. Garcia, Andres Gutierrez, and Isaac Ruiz ...