CGL Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, January 18 1995
- Location:
- DC 1304
- Time:
- 1:30 PM
- Chair:
- Nathan Konrad
1. Adoption of the agenda - additions/deletions thereto.
2. Coffee Hour and Next Meeting:
- Coffee hour this week:
- Andrew Park, Julie Waterhouse serving, you guessed it, Chocolate
- Coffee hour next week:
- ???
- Next Meeting
-
- Time:
- January 25, 1995
- Location:
- DC 1304
- Chair:
- Sarr Friedmann
- Tech Presentation:
- Fabrice Jaubert
- Forthcoming: (list next 4 and trades)
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- Chairs:
- Sarr Friedman (moved from Dec. 14)
- Rob Kroeger
- Wayne Liu
- Sandra Loop
- Tech presentations:
- Fabrice Jaubert
- Bill Cowan (moved from Dec. 14)
- Saar Friedman (2 weekds after move-to date)
- Rick Kazman
3. Technical Presentation:
- Presenter:
- Wolfgang Heidrich
- Title:
- An Overview of the 3D Graphics Library OpenGL
- Abstract:
- OpenGL is a window-system independent 3D graphics library from Silicon
Graphics, which is supposed to replace the old Iris-GL. After a brief
overview of the features of OpenGL, this talk will focus on the
interaction of different parts of the library with window-systems.
4. General Discussion Items:
- Moving Agenda and Minutes to HTML format?
5. Action List (remember to update AL_active)
- Side Effects Visit
6. Directors Meeting:
7. Seminar(s):
The University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue
Waterloo, Ontario
The Institute for Computer Research (ICR)
Presents an Evening Lecture Series on
New Interactions Between Computer Science and Mathematics
by: Dr. William F. Shadwick
of: The Fields Institute for Research in
Mathematical Sciences
University of Waterloo
Date: Monday, January 23, 1995
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, Room 1302
Abstract:
The use of computation has made possible many new developments in
mathematics and related disciplines which would have been diffi-
cult to imagine even a few years ago. For example, the use of
powerful graphics and visualization software provided new solu-
tions to old problems in differential geometry. Computer imple-
mentations of mathematical techniques that had been forgotten for
decades now allow robot controllers to parallel park multi-link
trailers - and the same technology combined with high performance
computing may revolutionize aircraft design. At the same time,
important mathematical challenges are being posed by computer
science in such important areas as visualization and artificial
intelligence. These examples are indicative of the lively in-
teraction between mathematics and computer science. In this lec-
ture some of the exciting opportunities that this interaction
provides will be discussed.
William Shadwick received his BSc and MSc from the University of
Western Ontario and his PhD from the University of London, Eng-
land in 1979. He has held visiting positions at Duke University
and the University of North Carolina and has been a member of the
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and the Mathematical Sci-
ences Research Institute, Berkeley. He has been a US National
Research Council Senior Research Associate at the NASA Ames
Research Center and is a Long Term Collaborator at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory's Center for Nonlinear Studies. An NSERC
University Research Fellow from 1981 to 1991 as well as a Profes-
sor of Pure Mathematics from 1990 to 1994 at the University of
Waterloo, he is currently a Professor of Mathematics and of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto
as well as the Executive Director of the Fields Institute for
Research in Mathematical Sciences. He is well known for his
research in exterior differential systems and their applications,
and has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear control
theory. He is Chair of the Advisory Board for the University of
Illinois Advanced Computing Center and is Editor for the Journal
of Systems Estimation and Control.
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES
DATABASES SEMINAR
-Wednesday, January 18, 1995
Paolo Atzeni, Terza Universita di Roma and Universita
di Roma "La Sapienza", will speak on "Management and
Translation of Heterogeneous Database Schemes."
TIME: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
ROOM: DC 1304
ABSTRACT
We consider the problem of managing and translating
schemes of different data models, in a framework that
refers to a wide range of models. This can be at the
basis of an integrated CASE environment supporting the
analysis and design of information systems, allowing
different representations for the same data schemes.
We introduce a graph-theoretic formalism to define and
compare models and schemes. This is based on a
classification of the constructs used in the known data
model into a limited set of types. Then, we study
formal properties of the activity of scheme translation
from one model to another.
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES
DATA STRUCTURES SEMINAR
-Friday, January 27, 1995
Svante Carlsson, University of Lulea, Sweden, will
speak on "Finding the shortest watchman-path in
polynomial time." This is a joint work with Hakan
jonsson and Bengt Nilsson.
TIME: 12:30-1:30
ROOM: DC 1331
ABSTRACT
No abstract at this time.
Cognitive Science Seminar:
January 23. Hagey Hall 334. Noon.
Robert McCauley, Philosophy Department, Emory University.
Religious Ritual and Memory Dynamics.
8. Lab Cleanup (till 2:30pm or 5 minutes, whichever is longer)