Preface Steven M. Weinreb/ Heterocycles

Remembering Steven M. Podos, MD, 1937-2009.

During an ARVO meeting in the late 1960s, I attended a party in David Maurice’s room at the Sheraton Sandcastle. Other than David talking with his characteristic dry humor, I don’t remember who else was in the room, except this younglooking, smiling fellow dressed in a completely white suit and bow tie; even his shoes were white. Being invited to David’s private party was a big deal at that tim...

PREFACE

Preface

PREFACE

Benjamín Tovar and Steven M . LaValle Evasion with Bounded Speed − −

In this paper we present a study on the visibility-based pursuit– evasion problem in which bounds on the speeds of the pursuer and evader are given. In this setting, the pursuer tries to find the evader inside a simply connected polygonal environment, and the evader in turn tries to avoid detection. The focus of the paper is to develop a characterization of the set of possible evader positions ...