MEETING-DATE:November 17, 2016 MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331 MEETING-TIME:11:30 MEETING-CHAIR:Stephen Mann MEETING-CHAIRPIC:smann-3.jpg COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Reza COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Volunteers? COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers? FORTH-DATE1:November 24, 2016 FORTH-DATE2:December 1, 2016 FORTH-DATE3:December 8, 2016 FORTH-DATE4:December 15, 2016 FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 11:30 FORTH-CHAIR1:Shufang Lu FORTH-CHAIR2:Marta Kryven FORTH-CHAIR3:Tyler Nowicki FORTH-CHAIR4:Reza Adhitya Saputra FORTH-CHAIRPIC1:shufang.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:marta.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:tyler.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:reza.png FORTH-TP1:Marta Kryven FORTH-TP2:Shufang Lu FORTH-TP3:Stephen Mann FORTH-TP4:Tyler Nowicki FORTH-TPPIC1:marta.jpg FORTH-TPPIC2:shufang.jpg FORTH-TPPIC3:smann-3.jpg FORTH-TPPIC4:tyler.jpg TPNAME:Craig Kaplan TPTITLE:Two-layer Islamic star patterns TPABSTRACT:I report on a few recent experiments in constructing 3D Islamic star patterns that are divided into two separate layers that weave over and under each other. The work is directly inspired by the sculptural designs of Rinus Roelofs, who experiments with multi-layer structures and "woven holes". TPPIC:craig.jpg DIONE: DITWO: DITHREE: DIFOUR: AIONE: AITWO: AITHREE: AIFOUR: LEONE: LETWO: LETHREE: LEFOUR: DMONE: DMTWO: DMTHREE: DMFOUR: SEMINARS:
Friday, 18 November 2016, 11:30AM - Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction), DC 1304 [Newish]
Gustavo Fortes Tondello: -- Personalizing Gameful Applications - The Hexad Gamification User Types Scale

Friday, 18 November 2016, 1:00PM - Computer Science (Symbolic Computation Group), DC 2310 [Newish]
Curtis Bright: -- MathCheck2: A SAT+CAS Verifier for Combinatorial Conjectures

Monday, 21 November 2016, 10:00AM - Computer Science (Software Engineering Research Group), DC 2310
Cristina Ribeiro: -- The Prevalence and Impact of Persistent Ambiguity in Requirements Specification Documents

Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 2:00PM - Computer Science (Information Retrieval Group), DC 2310
Adam Roegiest: -- Searching from Mars

Wednesday, 23 November 2016, 12:00PM - Computer Science (Algorithms and Complexity Group), DC 1304 [Newish]
Jan Gorzny: -- Partial Regularization of First-Order Resolution Proofs

Wednesday, 23 November 2016, 3:30PM - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Lab), DC 2314 [Newish]
Shrinu Kushagra: -- Clustering with Same-Cluster Queries

Thursday, 24 November 2016, 11:00AM - Computer Science (Computer Science), DC 1304
Jimmy Huang: -- Modeling Term Associations for Probabilistic Information Retrieval

Thursday, 24 November 2016, 2:00PM - Computer Science (Information Retrieval Group), DC 1331
Luchen Tan: -- Tracking Events in Social Media Stream

Thursday, 24 November 2016, 3:00PM - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Lab), DC 1302
Sage Franch: -- Intelligent Chat Bots and AI as an Interface - How Conversations as a Platform is Changing Technology

Thursday, December 15, 2016 PhD Defence/Computer Graphics Lab Appearance Changes due to Light Exposure
Brad Kimmel, PhD candidate David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo 8:30 a.m.; DC 2314